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This is how it is implemented. A RC means that player can not return. Another player can come on after 20 mins but not the offending player

I thought that the red carded player stayed off all game, but they could bring a sub on after 20 minutes. Have I got that wrong?

No that I can tell. The commentors made a thing about it for a pen in the first round but they got it wrong and it was for inside the 10...

No, team of 4 is Ref, 2 x AR and a 4th official (in charge of subs etc, he is the emergency back up as well)

Tactics for the second half? No thanks, I don't like minty breath.

In fact, they have now created the scientific philosophy of Schrodinger's grounding. When the ball is simultaneously seen to be on the...

Also, if you had a captain, non offending team, who knew the law and that it should restart with a pk on the half way, and they wanted...

There may be for the side that is 37 points up. they could extend that to 44 points up - for a better points difference in their...

I'm sorry, for me you can't do that. It is not backed up by law just the refs feeling at that moment. If a side is winning by 42 points...

What about 4 try bonus point, or points difference. In the world of leagues that we now live in all these things have concequences. If...

I agree, I am saying that you can award the penalty restart, because you haven't blown for full time.

But if you don't restart with a Pk then you can't reward (I hate that term) the non offending team for foul play against them. That...

I agree with this and is back up by law as @Locke shows above. Pen/advantage before the try is scored - no side Pen awarded after try...

one think I noticed was : a player lost control of the ball, and stuck a foot out to kick it as it fell. this is a scenario we have...

So the Prem is not that different. Anyone who watched the first couple of weeks of the season on TNT would of seen Martin Bayfield...