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https://www.sports.legal/2023/10/crossing-the-line-criminal-liability-on-the-field-of-play/ Found this an interesting article on the subject.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/68703467

Correction in my post.

Harlequins YC was allowed back three minutes early.

Thanks for info. Is the 20 min RC seen as a success and widely supported?

Equally fair comment.

Doesn’t sufficiently punish outright thuggery? E.G. select a player to take out the game winning goal kicker? Just a thought off the cuff.

I don’t think anyone is against RCs. We all want the game to be safer and correct techniques to be encouraged by their appropriate application. I think the top end of the game is lucky enough to have TMOs and replays etc to enforce the fair application and a degree of consistency of the laws...

That’s the sort of approach I was suggesting, but not in so much detail.:) No process or sanction is ever straightforward in our game but we won‘t know if something is better until we try it.

The top end of the professional game does have fewer RCs than a few years ago. I think this is because they realised that they were ruining the ‘contest’. Now it seems to me that there is far more mitigation applied due to the numerous cameras available. I do not think that the actions of the...

Well written Ian. I concur.

In the version of the laws prior to the simplification the mention of awarding a penalty at the place of restart after a dead ball was under foul play. 10.4n There was no specific mention of after a try, just offences after a dead ball situation. The wording was not much different to what is in...

I believe Law 20.1 covers it. After ball is dead the penalty is where play would restart.

They’ve had a few weekends with the tweak to the offside law. Has anything changed?

Was it an early tackle that he was sanctioned for? Video and discussion not really clear.