The IRB remains stuck attempting to impose non-contact sports laws on a contact game.
The IRB remains stuck attempting to impose non-contact sports laws on a contact game.
The newest set of law changes by the IRB is only coming into effect on the first of August, however the SARU have decided…
A few other articles recently have stimulated enough ideas, for me to need a dedicated article to articulate these thoughts. Is modern rugby healthy?…
I am being turned off rugby by the game's rules, and the blame falls at the door of the IRB. It's bringing the game…
The late comic genius Spike Milligan wrote one of the funniest books I ever read. It was about his war days and it was…
The issue of penalties and free kick counts (and loss of game time) has reared its ugly head once again with the latest scrum-engaging…
[caption id="attachment_32595" caption="(L to R) Australian rugby union players Salesi Ma\'afu, Huia Edmonds and Ben Alexander practice a scrum formation during a training session…
While most of us, bar perhaps Springbok fans, have been lapping up the excitement of all the running rugby we've seen in the Tri-Nations…
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I was reading the comments of some English and Welsh supporters on the weekend and the conversation inevitably moved on to Steve Walsh and…
I was reading the comments of some English and Welsh supporters on the weekend and the conversation inevitably moved on to Steve Walsh and…
I was reading the comments of some English and Welsh supporters on the weekend and the conversation inevitably moved on to Steve Walsh and…
[caption id="attachment_27316" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Brumbies Mark Gerrard flies throgh the air after scoring. AAP Image/Alan Porritt"][/caption] There has been some discussion (well, debate) on…
[caption id="attachment_27316" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Brumbies Mark Gerrard flies throgh the air after scoring. AAP Image/Alan Porritt"][/caption] There has been some discussion (well, debate) on…
[caption id="attachment_27316" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Brumbies Mark Gerrard flies throgh the air after scoring. AAP Image/Alan Porritt"][/caption] There has been some discussion (well, debate) on…
Complicated rules have been a fact of rugby, and many other sports, since their inception, mainly based on the variety of rules used before…
[caption id="attachment_18015" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="David Pocock of the Western Force faces his opponent, Gerhard Mostert of the Lions in their Super 14s match (AP…
Ever wandered why the crowd roars when a team decides to go for touch rather than kick for goal? They want to see tries…
Surely there are others who spend an inordinate amount of time pondering the laws and mechanics of the rolling maul, looking for a way…
Law 20 of the IRB Laws of Rugby deals with the scrum and accounts for eleven pages of the Laws of the game. With…
Law 20 of the IRB Laws of Rugby deals with the scrum and accounts for eleven pages of the Laws of the game. With…
The IRB remains stuck attempting to impose non-contact sports laws on a contact game.
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Reverting to the old laws might help since there’s too many laws implemented already by WR and pushed by RA itself ironi…(more)