RFU Comments sent to World Rugby
Is the Cavalry Charge no longer an illegal type of attack?
World Rugby Reply
It rarely happens and if it does, it could be dealt with under law 9.11 if the game situation appears to be dangerous play.
Answer
It rarely happens and if it does, it could be
dealt with under law 9.11 if the game
situation appears to be dangerous play
BTW world rugby's answer is just crazy
RFU Comments sent to World Rugby World Rugby Reply
Is the Cavalry Charge no longer an illegal
type of attack?
the reason it rarely happens is because it's illegal !
now it is legal, I expect we'll see it quite frequently. We already see PKs close to the line taken as quick taps, from next month it will be a quick tap passed to someone running at speed. Of course.
Was one person running onto take a pass from a quickly tapped ball previously illegal? No signal and no line of players.
so question for didds - as our resident coach ?
Will you prepare a Cavalry Charge move for the September ? I think it would work!
I think the honest answer to that question is another question first - am I preparing a team to win matches, or become better players?
the reality of that for me is am I coaching a club 1st XV or an U16s squad?
1st XV squad - I'd be checking with my local refs society to ensure that if it occurred there wouod be NO penalty - and also each individual ref each week - and would be allowed to occur for starters. Then yes, I probably would intriduce it into the armoury. Along with ways to defend it.
If I am coaching an U16 squad - probably not. For many reasons, including the elf and safetee of my players at a young age, but also that given the amount of opportunities to use it compared to scrums, lineouts, rucks,mauls, kickoffs and restarts why would i take time away from improving those six ?
didds
The LIKE button seems to have disappeared so I just wanted to say that I agree 100% having dealt with that situation a few times back in the day and come off on the worse side of collisions before it was banned.
I see no logic whatsoever in removing a sensible law that has been accepted without challenge for years and now opening up the game for potentially dangerous situations and asking refs to judge as whether it looks dangerous or not.
If we blew every time we saw something that looked potentially dangerous then there would be no game.
Unnecessary confusion.
I understand from previous discussions on the subject that there is a wide range of opinion on the matter with many seeing them as no more dangerous than a pick and go from the base of a scrum. My opinion of cavalry charges is formed from the number of defenders who I saw knocked unconscious defending a 5m penalty when I was playing. The answer from the RFU is ridiculous, as has been pointed out and I agree with Jolly Roger's comments in seeing no reason for removing a sensible law to replace it with a confused message at a time when we are trying to reduce concussions.
Cavalry charge: An illegal type of attack, which usually happens near the goal line, when the attacking team is awarded a penalty or free-kick. At a signal from the kicker, a line of attacking players charge forward from a distance. When they get near, the kicker taps the ball and passes to a player.
Can you describe the move? I wonder if was actually a flying wedge (lots of players latched on) rather than a cavalry charge (players spread out running decoy lines, ball goes to one of them)
. I must have missed the clamour for it to be reinstated.
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i.e I suspect they have legalised the cavalry charge by accident.