LSRFUR have published a fuller version of the WR presentation - with the videos, which are very important in explaining what is meant. Watch them carefully.
Sigh - this seasons guidelines have been widely announced as 'No New Laws' just a focus on applying the existing laws.
But it seems to me that two of them ARE actually Law changes - and should be in the Law Book and really should have been introduced as trials before being implemented globally.
Those two are :
Anyway slides are here.
As well as the videos there are some slides covering material that wasn't in the version Phil posted.
Only warning - you have to download it and it's 250MB (cough) so if you're on your phone - wait till you have wi-fi
https://www.londonrugby.com/training-blog/2018/9/16/world-rugby-june-2018-focus-areas
Sigh - this seasons guidelines have been widely announced as 'No New Laws' just a focus on applying the existing laws.
But it seems to me that two of them ARE actually Law changes - and should be in the Law Book and really should have been introduced as trials before being implemented globally.
Those two are :
- if the ball is clearly exposed the ruck is deemed over. That's a variation to 15.17 / 15.18 / 15.9 which describe the conditions for ending a ruck
- at a tackle a player may have just one foot level or behind the ball, whereas in a ruck he must have both feet. This one is new, and it's also interesting in the context of last season's mono-ruck, which became this seasons tackle-with-offside-lines. What's the difference, really ? Some people said... well there's an answer. Luckily for us, I think this one is too subtle to make any difference in grass-roots games.
Anyway slides are here.
As well as the videos there are some slides covering material that wasn't in the version Phil posted.
Only warning - you have to download it and it's 250MB (cough) so if you're on your phone - wait till you have wi-fi
https://www.londonrugby.com/training-blog/2018/9/16/world-rugby-june-2018-focus-areas
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