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Scenario 1 Team A 21 Team B 12 Team B score with 81 on the clock. Clear and Obvious Foul play after the score by team A. B convert Score 21-19....

The article says Saracens will get promoted plus maybe one other. What happens if Sarries don't finish top? They got relegated on points, how can...

Somebody at the RFU has got worried by the Championship results so far.:)

I have done it twice (I think). My memory is that - on both occasions - the team awarded the PK were so confused they took the kick as if it was...

Perhaps it needs a WR clarification to further confuse things!:)

we have been through this a few times -- you can't have scrums, mauls, rucks or tackle in the in-goal, so the offside lines that normally form from...

10.2 A player can be offside anywhere in the playing area. Definitions. Playing area: The field of play plus the in-goal areas. The touch lines,...

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A Federated model is the best way to get close to it. But I think we need to be honest when we say that there is a correlation between the standard...

wow! wow!

How do different localities become consistent with eachother ?

Can agree with that to some degree but doesn’t that mean local consistency is achieved rather than nationally?

I was taking a young referee(17) to a game she was appointed to as AR5, at a smaller stadium next to the main stadium, this was her first appointment...

My experience in the US is that is not the case. Consistency is actually driven better at the local level.

They don't guarantee consistency, but they must improve it

GMGs produce theoretical consistency, not practical.

yes - although that seems to be exactly what happens in elite rugby where the touchline official seem to let a player on without fanfare or warning...

Not sure I’m happy with that situation although I do have some empathy with the idea. I’d want everyone to know that the player is returning and not...

i wish the RFU would develop game management gudielines, I think they are a great idea to prodcue consistency withn the Laws. This grey area is...

That’s really the point I’m making. All I can say is that WR says it us up to the ref, and it is that that annoys the coaches.

Well, you shouldn't do that then. What you should say is "yes, your team were awarded a penalty and chose not to take a QT. Their YC'd player had...

I agree. And this is what the clarification is trying to tell us to do. Technically, the ref can blow time off but just waving player on is OK.

Seemingly this would be easy to put in a handy chart in the Law Application Guidelines, or as part of each Unions (the ones that have them) Game...

That’s what I said earlier in the thread about the situation observed in the 6 Nations and surmised that it was the reason behind the request for...

the WR clarification is not even useful at elite level because - AIUI - players come on and off the field supervised by the officials, not by the...

Thepercy - What you outline, and suggested by others, is what I believe the procedure should be and what I have advised referees since the 2-2007...

yes - you need to balance the non-offending team's right to go quickly, with the YC player's right to come back on. scenario - blue have a...