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No6_Flanker
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New rules for attacking rugby

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Let’s hope that none of the rules being trialled at the Red Bull Elevate Sevens Touch event get implemented, some of them are daft!

https://www.rugbypass.com/news/nowell-a ... ens-event/

Red Bull Elevate full tournament rules:

1. Standard seven-a-side touch rugby rules with five-touch turnover;

2. If a player on the attacking team makes a mistake that results in a turnover, they have to leave the field of play and can only return when a try has been scored;

3. The try area has been split into three scoring zones which equal one, two and three points – one point for touchline to the 15-metre line, two points for the 15-metre line to posts, three points for scoring under the posts;

4. Circular zones for conversions across the width of the pitch – three points for the circle between touchline and the 15-metre line, two points for the circle between the 15-metre and posts, one point for the circle between posts;

5. A ball cannon will be used to start and restart the game after a score;

6. Two players on the pitch must have never played rugby before and if they score points, the score is worth double;

7. There must be always a minimum of one female player on the pitch;

8. If you kick the ball directly to a player on your team who scores points, the score is worth double.


Rule 1 is basically just League, Rule 2 accentuates the significance of a turnover, Rules 3 and 4 sound like Aussie Rules and are actually intriguing although they certainly wouldn’t make game easier to understand for new fans, Rule 5 is interesting, maybe we would do better off restarts? Rule 8 is going to encourage cross-field kicks and kick passes.

All in all it sounds like it’ll be absolute chaos!
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Re: New rules for attacking rugby

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No6_Flanker wrote: Sat May 13, 2023 1:31 pm Let’s hope that none of the rules being trialled at the Red Bull Elevate Sevens Touch event get implemented, some of them are daft!

https://www.rugbypass.com/news/nowell-a ... ens-event/

Red Bull Elevate full tournament rules:

1. Standard seven-a-side touch rugby rules with five-touch turnover;

2. If a player on the attacking team makes a mistake that results in a turnover, they have to leave the field of play and can only return when a try has been scored;

3. The try area has been split into three scoring zones which equal one, two and three points – one point for touchline to the 15-metre line, two points for the 15-metre line to posts, three points for scoring under the posts;

4. Circular zones for conversions across the width of the pitch – three points for the circle between touchline and the 15-metre line, two points for the circle between the 15-metre and posts, one point for the circle between posts;

5. A ball cannon will be used to start and restart the game after a score;

6. Two players on the pitch must have never played rugby before and if they score points, the score is worth double;

7. There must be always a minimum of one female player on the pitch;

8. If you kick the ball directly to a player on your team who scores points, the score is worth double.


Rule 1 is basically just League, Rule 2 accentuates the significance of a turnover, Rules 3 and 4 sound like Aussie Rules and are actually intriguing although they certainly wouldn’t make game easier to understand for new fans, Rule 5 is interesting, maybe we would do better off restarts? Rule 8 is going to encourage cross-field kicks and kick passes.

All in all it sounds like it’ll be absolute chaos!
Frankly they can do what they want with touch but they need to stop with this endless crusade for "attacking rugby"
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Re: New rules for attacking rugby

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Social rugby tournament rules. They will never get near the proper game.
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