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https://www.skysports.com/rugby-union/news/35791/12834378/lydia-thompson-on-living-with-complete-blame-for-englands-world-cup-final-loss-to-new-zealand-after-red-card

How did you get on? My knee came through with flying colours, which is an obvious relief! I was a bit rusty regarding speed of thought, but I got a positive review by the assessor.

Good luck! 🤞 💪

NOWIRUL Div 3 West at Oldershaw this Saturday. It will be my first senior men's game in 11 months after tearing my knee cartilage... only my 4th senior men's game and also my first level 10 game... really looking forward to it, though a little apprehensive about being rusty, is knee strong...

The TMO... https://archive.is/7svuJ I'm not sure how much it was an intentional dumb tackle vs a tired tackle against a man-mountain who dipped late and low.

However, it is possible to ignore borderline no arm tackles for 78 minutes before you penalise one... 😬😶‍🌫️ (too soon or too bitter?)

@didds I didn't realise that was a recognised line to end a thread... I though you were replying to @Dickie E (Too gutter? Sorry... taxi :censored:)

You're not new to rugby, right? 😜

I think that sounds right.

Have you reffed England?!?!?!? Impressive! ;)

I agree... in a scenario in which a defender has arms around the ball, I will still give it a second to see if the attacker can get the ball down... I think we generally give some benefit to the attacking side, but we need to maintain a level of parity, so I wouldn't give it too long. However...

The original camera angle (which included sound) was from the wrong side of the breakdown, so we don't know.

What happened to the days of peeling a couple of players away before making a decision? I felt like the held up decision was made a little too quickly, which obviously impacted how the rest of the discussion/decision played out.

I do appreciate that the current laws reward catchers that aim to keep the ball in play, rather than catch with one foot in and one out with the aim of both making the ball dead and gaining possession as per the older laws.

Earl's try was amazing and arguably shouldn't have happened, but I think has a higher likelihood of scoring compared to some of the 1m pick and drives that we typically see. I've learned from playing touch rugby that it is often easier to attack from 10m out than from the 5m line... defenders...

For this example, if the ball "lands" outside the playing area and the player is outside the playing area from start to finish, then the ball is out. That all lines up and should be easy to remember. The other parts of 18.2 are arguably harder to remember, however, there is consistently some...

There is the straight up skill of being able to consistently drive long kicks up the 15m channel that the pros make to look very easy, but it's not... not to mention putting spin and curve on kicks to make life difficult for the catcher. As others have said above, the 50:22 rule adds the extra...

Despite my previous comment, I do agree with you. If those defending players were not where they are, the ball carrier might be more inclined to run the ball back, which would be more exciting for players and spectators.

I started playing rugby in ~ 1980, but I have no memory of ever hearing this term before today.