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dyniol53
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Posted: 01 April 2022 at 8:41am |
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I did hear one person suggest it shouldn’t be called a caterpillar rather call it a human centipede
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Sir Duckling Tuft
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jarod evans omission this season by the so called more attacking welsh coach mr pivac highlights how uber conservative anti flair welsh rugby is and has been for many moons
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Takes a lot of players to make a caterpillar too.
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dyniol53
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That hinders attacking rugby though as team with possession has to commit lots of people to breakdown to protect 9
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Easier go back to old rule as soon as SH touches ball it’s in play
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She asks why i still can't answer. I guess its in the blood.
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Didn't stop Busby last week !
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dyniol53
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I agree and broadcasters should have an onscreen timer from use-it that the TMO can see, anything that stops the build up to the caterpillar will help rugby imo.
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Jones2004
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So if the time is cut to 3 seconds there’s half a chance the ball will be out in 5! In all seriousness I think a big part of the reason for that is that refs don’t want to cause another scrum (and the resets that tend to come with them). That’s why I proposed just the ruck being over after 3 seconds (and hence the ref shouting ‘ball out’), therefore avoiding any scrums / free kicks. Of course there’s no guarantee that it would work but it seems worth a trial at the very least IMO.
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The trouble is ref's now shout use it & I often count (yes I am that sad) 7 or 8 seconds before the ball is actually picked up.
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The problem with any of those rules (however sensible some of them are) is that refs don’t tend to want to blow the whistle too often and so what you’d see is they’d clamp down on it quite hard in the first few months and then minds would drift and things would be back to how they are now within a year or two. Instead I’d propose cutting down the time from ‘use it’ to actually having to use it from 5 to 3 seconds. Once 3 seconds have gone the ref shouts ‘ball out’ and the defending team can pick the ball up from the ruck. That way you get rid of the box kick, and make the game more entertaining, and do something that the refs are likely to persist with for more than a few weeks / months.
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Fscarlet
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When the referee calls ruck, no one else can join the ruck, so no caterpillar can be formed.
Also something which I have noticed this season is a defending player standing to the side of the ruck, not attached to it, being a shield for the 9 when box kicking, that should be stopped too. Far too much protection for the 9's these days.
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Openside75
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Maximum of 2 box kicks from the scrum per half. The 9 to actually use that ball when it's available, pronto. Straight feeds at the scrum have to be policed, not straight? Then opposing team gets a go.
6 points for a try that started from before the halfway line (passing only) and 3 points for converting such a try.
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aber-fan
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Indeed - the SA teams seem far more inclined to run the ball back than indulge in aerial tennis, though they sometimes do that as well, of course.
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“You cannot reason a man out of what he never reasoned himself into.” (Jonathan Swift)
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ladram
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That's because they have more than one player chasing it and tend to get it back and do something exciting with it.
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Most of the games in the URC this weekend I've found highly entertaining, the SA teams definitely bring some entertainment in their games and some good attacking rugby and tries scored in most of the games this weekend |
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dyniol53
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Is rugby still boring or was that a phase?
I find it funny that France kick it so much yet barely anyone says they’re boring. It must be something to do with having the “ability” to turn it on when it matters. But they didn’t really against Wales and it “mattered” then. Wonder why there isn’t a chorus of pundits calling them dull
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