The elemental things that make rugby so compelling and so dramatic don’t require an explanation
If you’re feeling lucky, or cocky, you can visit the World Rugby website and take an exam on the laws of the game. Divided into 21 short modules, you cannot proceed beyond the first page until you’ve successfully navigated the four questions in the opening module. This is the honours paper. Ordinary level is not available.By the numbers: Ireland produce their most efficient attacking display of World CupYou don’t need to know, of course. In a sense you don’t need to know anything.
Just imagine yourself as a guest on QI, the BBC gameshow, and their general ignorance round has been devoted to the laws of rugby. Imagine how often their famous klaxon would sound? Do you really want to press the buzzer and take the first stab? So, who are we to argue? When a scrum goes down, for example, nobody is entirely sure what the referee is going to do. Cheating in the scrum is one of game’s most resilient vices. You hear people in the game talk about producing a good “picture” for the referee, which sometimes sounds like a plausible alibi as opposed to the whole truth. From time to time referees are fooled.
Knowing all this, the referee must still work out which team is cheating. And there’s you, spitting the Fever Tree back into your Bombay Sapphire because the learned referee had a guess that was at odds with your guess.If you watch enough games on telly you will absorb some of rugby’s jargon: technical terms, coaching references, slang. It is hard to think of another sport that has such an active glossary of terms.
When the 50:22 kick was introduced, for example, it was hoped that it would stretch the field and create more space. At the same time, two years ago, the goal line drop out also came on stream, as well as law changes at the breakdown. Scroll back to 2006, and 23 law changes were trialled in various settings; three years later 10 of them were adopted.
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