Thoughts?

[OB..]

Interestingly probably the most brutal ball sport, American Football, allows an ejected player to be replaced

They use a 43(?) man squad to put 11 players on the field at any one time. A rather different concept from rugby.

Aussie Rules didn't have a send off law at all until pretty recently (and still doesn't at the elite level - you can literally do whatever you like and cant be removed, although the umpires could abandon the game)

Do games ever get abandonned? Is foul play rife?

 

[Dickie E]

Do games ever get abandonned? Is foul play rife?

No & no.

Quite the opposite - a lot of pushing & shoving but never a punch thrown.

Players can & do get put on report and tribunal deals with that (plus post match citings).

 

[OB..]

No & no.

Quite the opposite - a lot of pushing & shoving but never a punch thrown.

Players can & do get put on report and tribunal deals with that (plus post match citings).

So the sport does not actually need a red card provision. Excellent. I wish rugby were the same, but unfortunately it isn't.

 

[Dickie E]

So the sport does not actually need a red card provision. Excellent. I wish rugby were the same, but unfortunately it isn't.

I didn't say that. I think all sports should give officials the ability to YC or RC if needed.

 

[didds]

Quite the opposite - a lot of pushing & shoving but never a punch thrown.

"There's a bit of a blue on here" - classic!

didds

 

[Camquin]

Last time I looked (United States of) America was a large country in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
While the commonwealth of Australia was a large countrly in the Southern and Eastern Hemispheres.

 

[ChrisR]

In the US there is a problem coz too many people bear arms. Perhaps the problem in Rules is all those players who bare arms.

 

[didds]

ba doom tish!

 

[Zebra1922]

Interestingly probably the most brutal ball sport, American Football, allows an ejected player to be replaced

Yes but thats a very different game. 45 players with unlimited rolling substitutions and specialists in the various different set pieces (yes I know we have scrum specialists but they don't get subbed off immediately after a scrum like in American Football).

Part of this is a separate defence and attack, would you put the defence down to 10 but not the attack? Special teams? A lot of ejections are miscreants from the sidelines getting involved when they shouldn't. Very different game and not really comparable.

 

[TigerCraig]

Yes but thats a very different game. 45 players with unlimited rolling substitutions and specialists in the various different set pieces (yes I know we have scrum specialists but they don't get subbed off immediately after a scrum like in American Football).

Part of this is a separate defence and attack, would you put the defence down to 10 but not the attack? Special teams? A lot of ejections are miscreants from the sidelines getting involved when they shouldn't. Very different game and not really comparable.

I am familiar witht the game, thank you. And after 30 years of following it finally got to see the Eagles get up!!

 

[Zebra1922]

I am familiar witht the game, thank you.

You're welcome. Need any more knowledge on the game I'm always happy to oblige