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New law changes confirmed by World Rugby and new law trials announced.

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[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah I thought they were initially only going to do it on claimed free-kicks - ie catching the ball on the full in your 22m; but I suspect limiting it to that might have required more complicated and potentially ambiguous wording.

At the end of the day I don't think there's much to fear here, teams with bad scrums will still get penalised & you can still opt for a re-scrum from a penalty.