'Super Rugby' 2021
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@pukunui said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
I would counter that by saying the attacking team has never lost the ball in a held up situation
True.
It's still a failed score and no longer in the field of play.
@pukunui said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
and the defending team is allowed extra leeway to not release the player or roll away once it is over the line.
IMO having the ball kicked back to the half way mark is too much of a punishment, for lack of a better word, for being held up over the line. The same “punishment” that is given when the attacker knocks on.
Would be rare for the ball not to be run back well into the half, and to even be in a scoring position in short order.
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@KiwiMurph use it or lose it not in SRA? It's already in the laws!
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@Machpants said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@KiwiMurph use it or lose it not in SRA? It's already in the laws!
My understanding is
Super Rugby Aotearoa = you have 5 seconds to use it after ref yells use it
Super Rugby Aus = you have to use it immediately after ref yells use it.
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@KiwiMurph ok, still going to have to give them a second or two to react to your call. Really refs just need too call use it was soon as it is available, they only call after the 9 had airway wasted ages getting his Human centipede set up
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Ban The Box Kick
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@pukunui said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@Bones said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
Sounds naff
FFS, I hate this shit. How about they work on getting the TMO to not fuck up clear decisions. Referring them more things to get wrong is not going to improve the game.
Not sure how allowing the defending team to kick the ball away after the attacking team has been held up over try line is going to promote attacking play.
But hey, lets go all out like the BBL and introduce power plays and power surges and mega awesome lightning periods where tries are worth 100 and fans can vote on removing the boots of an opposition player for 10mins.
This has my full and unwavering support.
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@Machpants said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@KiwiMurph ok, still going to have to give them a second or two to react to your call. Really refs just need too call use it was soon as it is available, they only call after the 9 had airway wasted ages getting his Human centipede set up
Anything to prevent this from ever happening again in SR!
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@Machpants said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
Is the game of the periods that are not halves on sky?
Still nothing in Sky's online tv guide.
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@Stargazer that and the fact the 9 will roll the ball back with his foot, sometimes over a metre, turn it with his foot or hand to get it in the right angle to pass it off the deck.
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@KiwiMurph said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
I put this in the other thread but i'll put it here too.
I don't think I get the kick off out on the full change that they call "more free kicks". So the receiving team, having watched the ball go out on the full, only have a free kick at presumably half way.?
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1 minute to play, they've just scored and eroded your lead to 2 points. You've got the kick off, but need the ball for the last minute. Hoof it out on the full, watch them kick possession away, back your lineout and draw out the clock?
Nah. What have I misinterpreted?
Edit, encouraging tap restarts like we did in under 11s?
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@Siam said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@KiwiMurph said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
I put this in the other thread but i'll put it here too.
I don't think I get the kick off out on the full change that they call "more free kicks". So the receiving team, having watched the ball go out on the full, only have a free kick at presumably half way.?
Or
1 minute to play, they've just scored and eroded your lead to 2 points. You've got the kick off, but need the ball for the last minute. Hoof it out on the full, watch them kick possession away, back your lineout and draw out the clock?
Nah. What have I misinterpreted?
Edit, encouraging tap restarts like we did in under 11s?
Why would they kick possession away in that scenario?
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@taniwharugby said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@Stargazer that and the fact the 9 will roll the ball back with his foot, sometimes over a metre, turn it with his foot or hand to get it in the right angle to pass it off the deck.
Don't know if you watched the 6N in the weekend, but there's definitely no need to use your feet for that and you're allowed to properly handle the ball, even pick it up and put it back down if you're not ready.
Welsh starting halfback was "dummying" pulling it out and got away with it 3 times before being warned that he'd be free kicked.
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@KiwiMurph said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@Siam said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@KiwiMurph said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
I put this in the other thread but i'll put it here too.
I don't think I get the kick off out on the full change that they call "more free kicks". So the receiving team, having watched the ball go out on the full, only have a free kick at presumably half way.?
Or
1 minute to play, they've just scored and eroded your lead to 2 points. You've got the kick off, but need the ball for the last minute. Hoof it out on the full, watch them kick possession away, back your lineout and draw out the clock?
Nah. What have I misinterpreted?
Edit, encouraging tap restarts like we did in under 11s?
Why would they kick possession away in that scenario?
I was only thinking about free kicks for touch or height. Haven't seen too much tapping in pro rugby and would argue that a competent scrum or lineout feed on halfway was more of an advantage than a tap.
You're right, I'm just having a hard time imagining a tap on halfway👍
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I've not read these but they come up in my feed "top 10 of XYZ position in Super Rugby"
There are 10 teams....
Best of the best: The top 10 halfbacks in Super Rugby 2021
With the kick-off of Super Rugby broadening on the horizon, a panel of RugbyPass writers have ranked the ten best halfbacks in New Zealand and Australia.
I know that some team's second choice are better than other team's first, but really? Top 10?
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@Machpants Are they using their dodgy rating system for these rankings? Even if they don't, just like player ratings after games, they are so subjective. A journo's opinion is worth just as much as ours; so not much
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@Stargazer said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
A journo's opinion is worth just as much as ours
I'd say less, and we offer ours for free, they do thiers under some mis-guided pretense they have done some research or analysis!
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