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Tri Nations 2009-2011
Springboks A Different Team At Home
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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 336761" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>Well at least the All Blacks have not "choked" at the group stage.... yet!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>First of all, there are NO NEW LAWS!!! All that has happened is that SANZAR referees made a decision that, for the 2010 Super 14, they were going to apply the Laws the way THEY believed the Laws were intended, so as to reward teams that took the ball into contact with the intent of playing positively. They copped a lot of criticism north of the equator for this decision, but when it became apparent that the result was faster and more exciting running rugby with an increase in try-scoring and a HUGE decrease in the amount of aimless "aerial ping-pong", them "oop north" decided that maybe us colonials had hit upon a good idea. They took it on board an by mid-March 2010, the RFU put out a release to have elite referees apply these interpretations. Of course, it didn't prevent the British Media from claiming it was an RFU initiative and totally giving no credit whatsoever to the SANZAR referees. </p><p></p><p>Secondly, these <strong>interpretations</strong> and <strong>applications</strong> may not fit into the Springbok style, a reasonable suggestion since we have seen that for ourselves, but to simply generalise and say that the NH don't play attacking rugby is just rubbish. You might have a point with teams like England and Scotland, who tend to play the 10-man game a lot more, but I would hardly include Ireland, Wales and France under that generalisation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 336761, member: 20605"] Well at least the All Blacks have not "choked" at the group stage.... yet! First of all, there are NO NEW LAWS!!! All that has happened is that SANZAR referees made a decision that, for the 2010 Super 14, they were going to apply the Laws the way THEY believed the Laws were intended, so as to reward teams that took the ball into contact with the intent of playing positively. They copped a lot of criticism north of the equator for this decision, but when it became apparent that the result was faster and more exciting running rugby with an increase in try-scoring and a HUGE decrease in the amount of aimless "aerial ping-pong", them "oop north" decided that maybe us colonials had hit upon a good idea. They took it on board an by mid-March 2010, the RFU put out a release to have elite referees apply these interpretations. Of course, it didn't prevent the British Media from claiming it was an RFU initiative and totally giving no credit whatsoever to the SANZAR referees. Secondly, these [B]interpretations[/B] and [B]applications[/B] may not fit into the Springbok style, a reasonable suggestion since we have seen that for ourselves, but to simply generalise and say that the NH don't play attacking rugby is just rubbish. You might have a point with teams like England and Scotland, who tend to play the 10-man game a lot more, but I would hardly include Ireland, Wales and France under that generalisation. [/QUOTE]
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