NH club rugby
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There will be law trials in NZ Community rugby this year that include a reduced tackle height. That follows a trial in selected grades, last year.
See my post in the Law trials and changes thread with the NZR media release (including the positive feedback they received).
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@antipodean said in NH club rugby:
I'm starting to get real sick of these fluffybunnies. What did you think could happen in a collision game? "Oh the governing body didn't change the rules to tiddlywinks to protect me from my own decisions." Go fuck off.
goodbye club rugby
park football is never, ever going to be able to meet those standards
I fucking sick of these players not taking any level of responsibility. I never met a player that didn't want to stay on if it was at all possible. That didn't want to play next week.
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@Stargazer yep, I am 99% sure the North Harbour 1st 15 comp was playing a reduced tackle height rule last year, anything sternum/chest to shoulders was a free kick.
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Actually going to cause a lot of problems this change.
Have seen references to trials where the number of concussions has gone up, which makes sense when you think about heads being lowered to hips and knees more often.
Might reduce the ball carrier concussions and increase for the tackler.
Like boxing, and other contact sports, there is an element of risk. I’d rather they reduce the volume of contact by changing the training methods instead of ruining the actual games.
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@taniwharugby said in NH club rugby:
@Stargazer yep, I am 99% sure the North Harbour 1st 15 comp was playing a reduced tackle height rule last year, anything sternum/chest to shoulders was a free kick.
Yeah ok, that is something I could look to try and work with. Waist is just fucking bizarre, arbitrary and pretty vague.
There's no way I'm getting myself down to where the waist on my red origins were circa 30 years ago.
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@Daffy-Jaffy said in NH club rugby:
Baring cards, and that doesn't happen anymore, those games will go to the home teams, I reckon
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@Bones said in NH club rugby:
Oh billy you numbnuts. Putting this here for some brave soul to read and tell me I'm wrong, as I couldn't get past the byline. You were so successful because you were cheating to all fuck!
Me too, utter bollocks. The only way they could afford all those stars was by cheating
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@Stargazer how long ago did they introduce the time rule on kicks for it to simply disappear?
Guess the difference now is there will be the clock on the big screen...I wonder if crowds will get in on the countdown as the kicker heads into his last 10 seconds...
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It’s just more marketing bollocks. The law is there, just police it properly. Like most of the tinkering, it might be better to just let the ref do his job, maybe with a word in his ear when necessary.
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Karl Tu'inukuafe arrived in Montpellier in October on a 3-year contract (until the end of the 2024-2025 season), but according to l'Equipe, they already want to part ways with him. Since his arrival, he has only played 5 games for the club, none of them as a starter. The article refers to the back problems he had before he left for France, but it's not clear to me whether that has anything to do with the fact that he's had so little game time.