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I don't even see why the Sunwolves were added. There is probably more money in the Japanese league than there is in super rugby as it is.
Unless JAL / ANA sponsored it.
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This is the before and after pictures of Brad Webers injury....
Thats his femur
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Yuuuuck
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...Brad Weber making a clean break from the game...
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback That's astonishing.
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Insane. I too have a broken femur..no where near as impressive as that though, no cast, no crutches just a sore knee and no chance of getting a seat on a crowded tram. It's amazing how quickly sports guys get back on their feet and into the game after that much damage.
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@Stargazer I have no problem with that being a red card.
Having said that, I'm forming the opinion that we need to find a way that doesn't make the same penalty grossly different in impact depending on what stage of the game it applies.
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@antipodean maybe have another card, say and orange one, means he goes off for 10 mins and is automatically cited?
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@taniwharugby said in Super Rugby News:
@antipodean maybe have another card, say and orange one, means he goes off for 10 mins and is automatically cited?
Perhaps the player can be replaced after 10 but the offender can't take the field again.
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IMO the penalty should give some benefit to the team whose player was illegally tackled. In case of a red-card offence, 10 minutes is not enough to discourage players from committing these offences (even if a replacement player comes on after those 10 minutes like in that orange card idea) and doesn't benefit the opposing team enough.
I think the difference of when in the game a player is sent off (for the rest of the game) should be taken into account when the Foul Play Review Committee determines the punishment of a player who has been found guilty, not during the game by pulling a card with a different colour. Yellow and red should be enough. Add more colours (other than that blue card), and you'll still get discussions eventually. Before you know it, you'll have a rainbow.
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@Stargazer so you think they 'deserve' more benefit than 10 minutes of 15 v 14 because of 1 players stupidity?
The team with the idiot gets punished and the fans who pay to watch the game get punished by him getting a red card.
I like my team to win, but winning because of someone in the other team getting a red card is a bit hollow.
I am happy for that player to go off and not come back, but allowing the other team back to 15 is a better way to do it, so that it is still a decent game of rugby.
Jamie HEaslip ruined a test against us by starting a trend of kneeing McCaw.
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@taniwharugby said in Super Rugby News:
@Stargazer so you think they 'deserve' more benefit than 10 minutes of 15 v 14 because of 1 players stupidity?
The team with the idiot gets punished and the fans who pay to watch the game get punished by him getting a red card.
I like my team to win, but winning because of someone in the other team getting a red card is a bit hollow.
I am happy for that player to go off and not come back, but allowing the other team back to 15 is a better way to do it, so that it is still a decent game of rugby.
Jamie HEaslip ruined a test against us by starting a trend of kneeing McCaw.
Yes, because otherwise there's no substantial difference between a yellow and a red; I find the deterrence aspect of this very important, too, btw, esp at the end of the season when suspensions are useless. What @Frye suggests, making the time in the bin longer combined with a compulsory replacement might be a good alternative, although I'd prefer that - if the tackled player would have to go off injured as a result of the offending tackle - the offender should not be allowed to be replaced.
