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World Rugby set to take action over tries scored at the butt of the post - reports

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World Rugby are poised to remove the rule that allows a player to score a try by bringing the ball into contact with the foam pad surrounding the base of the posts.

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From next season, it will no longer be possible to score a try by touching the base of the posts with the ball, meaning it will be necessary to touch down in the in-goal area or on the line for a valid try.

L’Equipe are reporting this decision was decided at the World Rugby symposium on players’ health, which was held in Paris on Tuesday. The matter will now go ahead for validation in May at the annual meeting of the rules committee.

Safety concerns have been raised over the winter about players trying to score at the butt of the goalpost.  

Last November, during a Guinness PRO14 match in Cork, Edinburgh’s Pierre Schoeman lifted the post protection about a metre above the ground when Munster approached the line with a series of pick-and-go drives. 

The left players exposed to a potentially violent collision with the exposed goalpost. Schoeman wasn’t penalised for the incident but a number of coaches have called for action about the rule in the interim.  

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JW 3 hours ago
'Let's not sugarcoat it': Former All Black's urgent call to protect eligibility rules

Yep, no one knows what will happen. Thing is I think (this is me arguing a point here not a random debate with this one) they're better off trialing it now in a controlled environment than waiting to open it up in a knee jerk style reaction to a crumbling organtization and team. They can always stop it again.


The principle idea is that why would players leave just because the door is ajar?


BBBR decides to go but is not good enough to retain the jersey after doing it. NZ no longer need to do what I suggest by paying him to get back upto speed. That is solely a concept of a body that needs to do what I call pick and stick wth players. NZR can't hold onto everyone so they have to choose their BBBRs and if that player comes back from a sabbatical under par it's a priority to get him upto speed as fast as possible because half of his competition has been let go overseas because they can't hold onto them all. Changing eligibility removes that dilemma, if a BBBR isn't playing well you can be assured that someone else is (well the idea is that you can be more assured than if you only selected from domestic players).


So if someone decides they want to go overseas, they better do it with an org than is going to help improve them, otherwise theyre still basically as ineligible as if they would have been scorning a NZ Super side that would have given them the best chance to be an All Black.

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