Re: Barbarians vs All Blacks 1973

kamalpa@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I think we should start a petition to make the IRB change the lineout
law resulting from a penalty back to what it was originally to make
teams run the ball more.

Or - if you're slightly more cynical - it'll encourage teams to infringe with impunity in their own half, knowing that they'll get the ball back if the penalty is kicked.

So, what other laws can we argue about. My own personal beefs are;

1) What constitues "crossing"? At the moment you have to make contact with a tackler - or at least blatantly impede him - from an offside position, to be penalised. But offside runners can effectively confuse and disrupt a defensive line without coming anywhere near contact, and we are heading towards whole walls of offside backs obscuring sight of the ball carrier.

2) The "deliberate" knock-on. I know this will be more controversial, but I don't like this law. I reckon, if you can get your hand to a pass, it's fair game. The scrum for the knock-on is redress enough. The law as it stands discourages interceptions and gives yet another advantage to "flat" (i.e. borderline-offside) attackers.

With laws like these, weighted against deep running attacks and drift defences, we shouldn't wonder that flowing rugby is a rarity.
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