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Team captains will be allowed to use their challenges to check on items such as foul play or other infringements that they believe were missed by on-field officials.
Let me first start by saying that this is neither a defence of, nor promotion of, Suliasi Vunivalu as a player...so much has already…
“With all the technology we have and a high refereeing standard, a very high percentage of infringements are already detected and acted upon.”
Yet the referee, linesmen and TMO all missed the forward pass and knock on?
Read my suggestion again… I suggested that 1, maybe 2 max, challenges are allowed. So not sure where you conclude that this, combines with less TMO intervention results in “a stop-start challenge fest” ?
Is it time for the Captain's Challenge in Rugby Union?
Agree…there would need to be some clear parameters/limits placed around the use of it so it is not used in the final stages of a game to simply slow the game down.
Is it time for the Captain's Challenge in Rugby Union?
Apologies…did not know this? But having just read some of the reasons why it was scrapped I can argue that Main Reason noted was – “The captain’s referral, which allowed a team to challenge an officiating decision during a match, has been axed. It’s a decision which should lead to more free-flowing matches, instead of games being stopped for TMOs to run the tape back and check for a small error which may or may not have occurred in the lead-up to a score.”
We have seen exactly this…more and more TMO stoppages in the last 2-3 years killing the flow of the game…hence why I said reduce the TMO scope to original protocols.
Again, my post is simply asking the question if we should trial it…if not, great! But then we should not moan about the ref or TMO when the team you support is on the wrong side of a decision or the ref and TMO miss something that was fairly obvious.
Is it time for the Captain's Challenge in Rugby Union?
Worth opening up the conversation on adjusting the current U16 and U19 Super Rugby format to a new U16, U18 and a U21 development pathway system before getting into a Senior Team? The U21 would play their own SRP competition and the same format (providing NZ get onboard) and travel with the Senior teams. Yes more cost to the franchises…but what is the cost of developing and losing the players internationally?
Allows more development time and national identified players to stay another year or 2 in the system? This also allows for the U21 Wallabies teams (for U21 Rugby Championship and U21 WC’s) to be selected from these Super Rugby U21 teams with players playing regularly…which has been highlighted as an issue when compared to the European U21’s playing their own 6 nations tournament.
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Is it time for the Captain's Challenge in Rugby Union?