WR's mooted law changes are great - but show there's a hell of a lot wrong with rugby in 2024, and that sucks
For me at least, rugby union seems to have an unparalleled ability to induce mixed feelings. This has been brought home to me especially…
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Ben Pobjie is a writer and comedian whose promising rugby career was tragically cut short the day he stopped playing rugby and had a pizza instead. The most he has ever cried was the day Balmain lost the 1989 grand final. Today he enjoys the frolics of Wallabies, Swans, baggy greens, and Storm.
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For me at least, rugby union seems to have an unparalleled ability to induce mixed feelings. This has been brought home to me especially…
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Interesting. I for one certainly don’t mind field goals becoming harder to kick.
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Aren’t we all
Fair comment not coming from unfair commentators whining about rules they should know off by heart
Ok. The referees adjudicated that it was no try. Happy?
Fair comment not coming from unfair commentators whining about rules they should know off by heart
No I’m not sure of anything to do with club doctors, just that the AFL official policy of keeping positive tests secret is for recreational drugs not PED.
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I believe the three strikes policy is only for recreational drugs. So a positive test for performance enhancing drugs wouldn’t be kept private, as I understand it.
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It’s World Rugby proposing the changes.
WR's mooted law changes are great - but show there's a hell of a lot wrong with rugby in 2024, and that sucks
Never said rugby was in trouble
WR's mooted law changes are great - but show there's a hell of a lot wrong with rugby in 2024, and that sucks
I’m so sorry
WR's mooted law changes are great - but show there's a hell of a lot wrong with rugby in 2024, and that sucks
Oh always!
WR's mooted law changes are great - but show there's a hell of a lot wrong with rugby in 2024, and that sucks
Love your thoughts
WR's mooted law changes are great - but show there's a hell of a lot wrong with rugby in 2024, and that sucks
I don’t know why you’d say “if you don’t like scrums”. I didn’t ever say I didn’t like scrums. I love scrums. I just don’t like multiple resets, or the ultimate aim of the scrum being to win a penalty.
WR's mooted law changes are great - but show there's a hell of a lot wrong with rugby in 2024, and that sucks
Running my mouth every single week is my job, I just have to.
WR's mooted law changes are great - but show there's a hell of a lot wrong with rugby in 2024, and that sucks
Couldn’t agree more.
WR's mooted law changes are great - but show there's a hell of a lot wrong with rugby in 2024, and that sucks
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I didn’t say I didn’t like scrums or mauls. Only that I liked what they used to be more than what they are now. Didn’t mention the points system at all.
WR's mooted law changes are great - but show there's a hell of a lot wrong with rugby in 2024, and that sucks
Yes it’s ridiculous. Nobody ever hits pedestrians while exceeding the speed limit. Unheard of.
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Ok, so you think that because murder can’t be an accident, it’s impossible to be convicted of anything that you didn’t intend to do.
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So the Tasmanian government shouldn’t get four weeks?
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Like when you’re driving at 120 in a 60 zone, and you hit a pedestrian, and you don’t get convicted unless it can be proven you wanted to hit the pedestrian?
Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary
Sounds like a win-win.
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I don’t know where the idea that a player can’t be held responsible for dangerous play unless he’s deliberately trying to hurt someone came from.
And I don’t think that “you are free to do X, but if you get it wrong and endanger another player, it’s on you” is a difficult message to comprehend.
Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary
Deano would be proud.
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Well there’s the answer then.
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Agree with all that.
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