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World Rugby approves law trials to reduce coronavirus risk - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/52833173
Among the law trials:
Among the law trials:
- Removing scrum resets.
- Taking away the option of a scrum for a penalty, a free-kick, or when an attacker is held-up in-goal.
- Reinforcing high tackle guidelines to reduce face-to-face contact and the introduction of an "orange card" for potential red-card offences.
- The player is removed with the offence checked by the Television Match Official. If deemed a red card offence, the player doesn't return. If not, they return after 15 minutes.
- Removing the choke tackle, with referees calling a "tackle" rather than a "maul".
- Awarding a free-kick rather than a scrum for when a team fails to "use it" at a scrum, ruck, or maul.
- Speeding up rucks by cutting the "use it" time from 5 seconds to 3 seconds.
- Restricting the number of players who can join a maul and the time spent in the maul.