World Rugby: 'You know what, we're probably going to change some rules'
Sport Review #303
Hey, what up. Rules committee here.
Rugby eh? Magical stuff. The spectacle. The confrontation. The chat. The craic. Athletes at their peak in a contest for domination that brings some bits of the former British Empire and France and sort-of Italy like nothing else. Except cricket.
Anyway. We’re almost through the Autumn internationals, and while we’ve had some great games, we’re going to have to go ahead and change the rules.
I know we made a whole lot of rule changes last year, and for all the years before that, but fuck it, you know. ‘Plus ça change’ as the Frenchies say! Heh.
Get the whiteboard! Get the catered sausage rolls and oysters! Get the Old Speckled Hen! The rules boys are getting back together.
We’re going to really fussbudget some lineout shit, some kickoff shit and maybe even some card shit. We’re going to roll them out in some places and not others, and you’d better believe we’re going to have TMO up everyone’s clacker deeper than the earth’s molten core.
I mean, if people aren’t asking ‘what the fuck happened there?’ after every maul, we’ll have failed. And scrums will still take five minutes each. Soz!
We’re looking after a sport where fans can comfortably ride the remote to catch all 23 minutes of actual action and get on with their day, there are serious CTE issues to deal with and keeping up with the actual rules has long gone for most fans.
If it’s not broken don’t fix it and all that! lol.
So - updates will be out in the next couple of months. Check your spam folder.
Thanks for reading - Richard
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