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<blockquote data-quote="Immenso" data-source="post: 910854" data-attributes="member: 74361"><p>Those were all things that occurred frequently and entail levels of violence.</p><p></p><p>The deliberate knock-on was something that occurred very infrequently and was punished even less frequently, has no safety concerns and was not seen as anything particularly bad, yet is now policed like Rudi Giuliani checking for broken windows. A problem has been made out of something that was never a problem, with the unintended consequence of ref's handing out cards like confetti. </p><p></p><p>I'm old enough to have watched probably an even amount of rugby before that law was policed like mad and after. </p><p>Before that rule started getting poIiced I can not recall an occasion when I was disappointed or mad at one of my team's certain tries being spoiled by a deliberate knock-on. </p><p>Since that rule started getting poIiced I can recall 2 occasions that was ruled in NZ in test matches: </p><p> - Rob Kearney being sin-binned for missing an intercept after making an intelligent defensive decision when he was outnumbered but that didn't quite come off. Stupidly harsh.</p><p> - Bryan Habana, might have been RWC 2015 semi?, slapping the ball out of the halfbacks hands. I think he got yellowed; it was a professional foul at a ruck 5m from the line with NZ likely to score with numbers out wide, plus he combined 2 offences (deliberate knock-on and playing the halfback at a ruck maybe even diving off his feet depending on interpreation). Seemed fair enough.</p><p></p><p>To me its seems obvious. You should be able to tell a deliberate slap down when you see it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Immenso, post: 910854, member: 74361"] Those were all things that occurred frequently and entail levels of violence. The deliberate knock-on was something that occurred very infrequently and was punished even less frequently, has no safety concerns and was not seen as anything particularly bad, yet is now policed like Rudi Giuliani checking for broken windows. A problem has been made out of something that was never a problem, with the unintended consequence of ref's handing out cards like confetti. I'm old enough to have watched probably an even amount of rugby before that law was policed like mad and after. Before that rule started getting poIiced I can not recall an occasion when I was disappointed or mad at one of my team's certain tries being spoiled by a deliberate knock-on. Since that rule started getting poIiced I can recall 2 occasions that was ruled in NZ in test matches: - Rob Kearney being sin-binned for missing an intercept after making an intelligent defensive decision when he was outnumbered but that didn't quite come off. Stupidly harsh. - Bryan Habana, might have been RWC 2015 semi?, slapping the ball out of the halfbacks hands. I think he got yellowed; it was a professional foul at a ruck 5m from the line with NZ likely to score with numbers out wide, plus he combined 2 offences (deliberate knock-on and playing the halfback at a ruck maybe even diving off his feet depending on interpreation). Seemed fair enough. To me its seems obvious. You should be able to tell a deliberate slap down when you see it. [/QUOTE]
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