Agreed..the new laws is a bit of a joke..
You go into a match nervous if it is your team playing as you know its very likely you would lose a player, the question is just when and for how long?
And then all you have to do as a ball carrier/ attacker is just dip before impact tackle and your team is in for the bonanza..
Easy to milk the system like the Irish the previous game..
It’s becoming planet Bollywood on field with all the actors playing their part for 30 silver pieces they sell the game out..
Pffft..
Really really piss poor sorry..
If an attacker dips what so ever that SHOULD BE THE MITIGATING FACTOR!!! it should be his responsibility to stay up as much as it is the defenders responsibility to go down…
Any dip from the ball carrier especially right on the moment of impact and the head neck rule should be void!
The muppets of the World Rugby Union seems to not know or understand Jack S*** in common sense!
Touch and goes incidents shouldn’t even be or the red card scale..
Dirty deliberate foul play yes..
Wake up RWÙ..
Your turning Union into Ballet…
Go grow a pair…

Hehe..
Sorry man I have no prob with The Hulk or you..
The Hulk Rocks after the Undertaker…
Or maybe Andre the Gaint.. Hmmm decisions decisions.. Nah the Hulk, he was the hero especially when he let it rip..
There now..
Me, myself and i decided to have a field whinging day just like the Kiwi commentatos every bloody time..
You met I…
I is a bit of an anti Kiwi commentator kind of guy nowadays, as Kiwi commentators are a pain in all my 3 asses..
Can’t stand the sound of them..
Just so full of themselves you know ..
My guess is your about my age being a Hulk fan…..
My age? Hmm
Between the tree and the bark..
Take it easy brother..

Spot on!

Suaali is player for the future but with the new head injuries laws in place he will have to walk on eggshells..
I remember him almost decapitating Reece Welsh in a State of Origing game before he made the switch with a flying all in shoulder to head tackle, although Reece dipped it looked just absolutely bloody awful..
This kind of play in Union and your going to walk the plank..
I hope he can adjust as he is a talent for Wallabies to behold..

Mate about as annoying as the new head knock laws..
No it’s not your phone it’s this stupid platform, as they allow the Ads similarly to be as annoying as the TMOs in the heat if the moment interferences…

Spot on!
It should be the attackers responsibility to keep up right during contact and if he doesn’t then well there should be ” mitigating ” factors coming in at play..

Yep good point.
Consistency needs to be key here..
What’s good for the good for the goose is good for the gander as they say..
It’s hard to understand the rules when it is not applied with consistency..

You’re not the only confused and frustrated one out there believe me..
It appears the Referees and TMO’s are also clear as mud comes it to head knock policies..
They follow the Word Rugby councils orders which has become over the top ludicrous..

Thank you Andrew Merthens you actually hit the nail, spot on the “head”..
It really is becoming a wee bit of a joke isn’t it..
Rugby is after all a full contact sport and these over the top new rules causes this spectacle of a high octane sport to lose its well…. spectacle!!
Given the constant niggling TMOs also interfering just about every couples of seconds, bringing a game they supposedly are trying to speed up to a screeching frustrating halt!!!
Yes absolutely stamp out grubbery when it’s absolutely clear at ruck clear outs etc or obvious clear dirty high tackles, but for heavens sake when an attacker lowers his body position at the moment of impact at high speed when he comes into contact with the defender it can’t be all the defenders fault??
It’s becoming ludicrous..
All I would do if I was to milk the system is lower my body position in every attack and it’s probably going to be a 80/20 likeliness call that the defender will get pinged for a high tackle..
Easy to milk this fantastic new WRC rule isn’t it…
Just run head in first like a charging bull everytime…
The Word Rugby council have lost the plot in their paranoid and pedantic quest to stamp out head injuries..
It’s clear the World Rughy Council making these rules are trying to show they are committed to help stamp out head injuries so that they can’t be held liable for future head injury related law suits.
We get that but the show must go on ,let common sense prevail, this is a full contact sport played at high speed leaving very little time to get it perfect evertime…

Maybe we do share one similarity..
We both like to see them lose..
I grew up to respect them, once.
As a child I woke up in the early hours of the morning to watch the mighty All Blacks play my team of preference, but sadly they the All Blacks and their supporters have changed over the years. Or maybe they didn’t, maybe that’s just the way they have always been and the highly placed respectful vision I always thought they portrayed was in fact just a mirage..
One thing I do know today is I have lost my respect for them entirely as a rugby nation..
And then there is those most annoying bleeting commentators of theirs…
Evil, evil lot I tell you.
Never have heard of a crowd that threatens ones players with death when they lose..never.That is pretty damn low..
I can’t stand their arrogance and boastfulness coming from a lot that steals other Island
players and claim them to be a collective patriotic hired gun fake New Zealnd All Black team..
It’s not even their own players? Why so patriotic about a team that’s not even authentic from there?
At least Scotland with all its imports doesn’t claim the same arrogance and show humility in defeat or victory..

I really care not if you are a Kiwi fan or not Kent..
I care not if you are A Bok or an Aussie supporter..
Really it just does not matter to me..
Facts will remain I take pleasure out of calling them out for what they are..
Insufferable..
They always have been they always will be..
Maybe I just just don’t like them..
You take care now Kent and I am not your mate..

This coming of from a man or a mere child?
I estimate you maybe 20 something years old with Hulk hogan as your main theme cover right?…
Hmmm
Yep nah time wasting here the preppies have invaded the adults debating platform..

Maybe in your eyes Kent Dorfman..
And thank you kindly for proving my precise point of just how self absorbed you mob down there actually is by you answer precisely as would be expected..
One must actually feel sorry for you lot..
I must recommend go travel a bit and I mean out of New Zealand and let the peels come of your eyes and maybe only maybe but I doubt it would or could you understand that rugby is about more than just you lot down there in good old Aotearoa even within New Zealand although you cant see or understand it….

But not everyone that has subscribed to Stan and other payed platforms could give a rats bottom spinchter muscle on how magnificently
wonderfully you bleeting lot over there think you really are..
Jeff Wilson was a great player he really was but he is absolutely diabolical as a Kiwi commentator..
He sells you lot out as cheapishly and sheepishly all the same..
It sounds like he is commentating for children… Are you all children out there Kent? Or does that just come with the stock standard indoctrination in NZ?
The ABs this The ABs that..
They’re so strong they’re so fast they’re so awesome..
Geez quiet nauseating..
Really?? No, non constructive reporting..
Just constant superficial gloating…
Where is the fun in listening to that For 80 minutes Kent even for you lot of hermits?
Not much ever changes with you lot down there..

It’s become utterly mad!!
The world Rugby council covering their own hides through over pedanticism..
It’s killing the game ain’t it!
You can’t enjoy a game anymore as you sit anxiously and wait for the moment you know will come where someone will get send off.. Yours or theirs you just pray and hope all the time the bets will favour your team..It’s really pathetic..
It’s becoming unenjoyable as players get send off for no real fault of their own rather more rules and regulations that have gone absolutely of the rails..
How is it the defenders fault also needing to protect his own head when a player of at least 100kgs coming running at full speed at him decides to dip at the moment of impact..
No It’s wrong I’m sorry..
As soon as your attacker lowers his body during impact the fault can not just lay at the defenders tackling skills..
This is killing the game that use to be a spectacle now limited to one anxious mess from start to end..
One can not really enjoy Rugby Union anymore thanks to the World rugby councils ridiculous new rules.

Uncle Boil..
I await your further amusement..
Please respond promptly..
I need more updates on your your travels and sex as you have mentioned you’d rather do..
Yours faithfully
Onion

Whistle-blower I can’t disagree..In fact I fully agree..
It’s just this..
The Kiwis commentators are so exceptionally full of themselves, not just once but always..
They just don’t understand..They just never really understand hiw painful it is for all other nations to listen to them gloating and not doing their jobs on fair unbiased commentating..
They can’t change, it’s part of them as New Zealanders, and I think it’s giving Kiwis a bad name..
I know there are nice level-headed New Zealander rugby players and supporters out there, unfortunately they are not being represented by their commentating representatives that’s really making it painful to like them..

It’s not about how awesome they are, or how wrong they feel the rub of the green has gone against them, it’s about rugby overall..
It’s a little trick the New Zealanders just never seem to understand..
It’s about more than how wonderful they think they are…

I see you’ve taken a liking in me..
Glad the point I made is hitting home..
Now don’t let it………. suppurate cuz..

Hehe..
Ahhh just awesome..
Peace be with you bro..you have a good spirit and a peculiar sense of humour..

Are you following the statement?
You point is?
He was born in C A N B E R R A..
Also know as Capital of the ACT..
In A U S T R A L I A..
Make sense?
Which makes his country of birth from where would you reckon???
He now plays f o r ?
Come on you guessed it…
Just like so many other smaller Polynesian Island countries getting robbed by New Zealands All Blacks without consideration..
Another poached player just like all those Polynesian Islands that can never achieve their full potential
because the kiwis or New Zealanders buy them out..
The funny thing is it teally mèans that there is not so many really real New Zealanders rugby players in their really real patriotic All Black team is there??
Yet they go on like they have so much to be proud of with all their authentic genuine Islander’ish All Black team.
right??
Hehe it’s laughable how you patriotic lot go on with a team that’s not even really from your own home country..
Like I’ve said go figure..

Well uhmm yep nope..
Sorry no mute button here..
Go fester some more then..It seems its all you can do about it..????

Bwaaahaahaa..
No not at all..
I just like to “puss”the funny talkers off..

Bwaahaa haa ha
Now that’s funny..
Yep I recall the Maccaw era where the referees were well and truly in NZ ” All Blacks back pocket..
And still they couldn’t really hack it..

You should really really go do your homework before getting loose typing fingers “bro” as you really damage your own credibility on this site..
You seem so assured in your conviction and adamancy that you glow with blind arrogance..
You lot in that long small hazy island seem to be living under a rock of ignorance..
Crawl out once a while ” Bro ” and smell the coffee..
Ofa, Settiti,Reece,Samipeni,Lomax.
Only the recents and currents not to speak of the Jonah Lomus And Jerry Collins and so many other over the years you have poached BRO..
You lot should be so proud of yourselfs calling them Genuine All Blacks..
Their greedy unpatriotic hired guns from the Polynesian Islands chasing the coins!!
To educate you a bit, take each name given above and type in Google search engin” block looking structure, that’s the long rectangular block with maybe a magnifying glass?
Now type in the names above and next to it country of birth yeah..
Then It will dawn upon you BRO..
Your AB team is not so AB..
It’s a Polynesian collective..
Sorry to brake it to you but your a bunch of poachers and have been for years and years…

Why ???It’s a fact..
Shows you how many ” kiwi” or rather ALL BLACK players are actually All Blacks..
So many poached from the Polynesian islands that NZ claim as true local born and bred All Blacks!!! So many over the years no wonder those countries can never reach their full rugby playing potential as New Zealand is always there to steal their talent..
Bit of a joke really how they then claim their genuine AllBlacks!!
Should change the name from The All Blacks to “The collective Polynesian Island Rugby Team” Or TCPIRT for short..
Ofa,Settiti ????Reece,SamipeniLomax.All very New Zealandish of course????
What a farce!