- Hard pass. You can't mitigate for recklessness, this puts player safety at risk. The outcome must be what counts here. To oversimplify it, if you're going to be a clumsy gobshite that hurts others because you've got your head up your arse, then get the hell off the field and pull yourself together.
- I regret to inform you that the campaign against red cards continues apace. This puts all the weight on interpreting intent, so it'll never be called unless it is painfully obvious. www.planetrugby.com/news/exclusi...
- Honestly, I fear so much of this comes from a disconnect between auld fellas in suits setting laws for a kind of rugby they never played not realising how damaging it is to underpin it with the assumption that players can and will self-regulate in the moment of an increasingly tense, physical sport.Feb 4, 2026 14:28
- I reckon they wouldn't have to be too long out of the game for that disconnect to happen. Would be interesting to compare the modern game to what it was 5 or even 10 years ago and see how much it's changed (the stats and metrics boffins can take the lead on that one).
