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<blockquote data-quote="Blindside6" data-source="post: 276182"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (smartcooky @ Aug 27 2009, 11:42 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=409606" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>It's a pity I'm not allowed to rep you for this post. You've got it spot on, everyone blames the ELVs for the amount of kicking but it was creeping into the game before them. I saw the Wales v Argentina game before the RWC and Argentina were using the high kick to space as a tactic then, far more than was normal. The IRB needs to take a hard look at the breakdown and simplify what arriving plyers are permitted to do to make it easier to referee. There seems to be an overwhelming desire to 'speed up' the game, sometimes at the expense of common sense.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blindside6, post: 276182"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (smartcooky @ Aug 27 2009, 11:42 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=409606']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> It's a pity I'm not allowed to rep you for this post. You've got it spot on, everyone blames the ELVs for the amount of kicking but it was creeping into the game before them. I saw the Wales v Argentina game before the RWC and Argentina were using the high kick to space as a tactic then, far more than was normal. The IRB needs to take a hard look at the breakdown and simplify what arriving plyers are permitted to do to make it easier to referee. There seems to be an overwhelming desire to 'speed up' the game, sometimes at the expense of common sense. [/QUOTE]
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