RugbyRebels

Puja wrote:

Digby wrote:

Puja wrote:
I'm envious! It was the one that's part of his year's ELVs which previously said that a ruck (and an offside line) was only formed when a player from each team was present and which now says that a ruck is formed when a player from either team is present.

Puja

Ah, I was fine with the tidying up the tackle such the tackler loses special rights to make things simpler for the refs, but the non ruck ruck seems a solution to problem that doesn't exist imo. Instead I'd rather they applied the already existing notion that rugby is a game for players on their feet

But you yourself just said that confusion on the part of the ref as to whether something was a ruck or not happened all the time? Surely that's a problem that existed and is now solved - a completed tackle with one player creates an offside line and no-one needs to work out if it's just a ruck or a tackle on the fly.

Puja

Puja wrote:

Peat wrote:

Puja wrote:
But it wasn't a usual in-play assessment

It was. His calling of ruck and tackle was no different to many games I've watched and played in. The rest you may have a point on - I can't remember how he dealt with the scrums - but on this, I can only disagree.

I will disagree - refs did not (before the law change) preemptively call "Just a tackle!" for every single occasion that no ruck was formed. It was only generally said when someone looked offside to announce that it was okay, not as a message that players could come round.

Puja