Juicy weekend of rugby, kick offs in GMT
Friday
Ireland vs New Zealand - 2010
Saturday
England vs Australia - 1510
Italy vs Argentina - 1740
France vs Japan - 2010
Sunday
Wales vs Fiji - 1340
Scotland vs South Africa - 1610
Share your predictions, post some reactions, and bonus question: how many cards this weekend?
Got up and watching the last quarter of Scotland vs SA. How the f$%k is getting the ball from your own 10m to inside the opposition’s 22m not an advantage? Particularly when its not an advantage for foul play, or any particularly egregious cheating but a scrum collapsing when the ball was available to use.
Rugby really does get in its own way sometimes.
Yes that advantage was far too long. Scrum was a shitshow all game sadly, Scotland looked well out our depth
I know the redditors get up in arms when anybody suggests tampering with this beautiful facet of Rugby that everybody comes to the stadium to see; but honestly scrum penalties are just whack these days. A knock-on just shouldn’t need to lead to a >40m advantage being given to one team by the referee, especially when if the team had kicked it even 10m it would have been advantage over!
I would much prefer scrum infringements to be free-kicks only unless its a defensive scrum penalty on your 5m line where you might be cheating to stop a potential try scoring drive (although they are exceedingly rare these days). In pretty much every other facet of play the team feeding the scrum is getting the advantage at a restart of having the ball after they previously did not - that’s the advantage already!