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Juicy weekend of rugby, kick offs in GMT

Friday

Ireland vs New Zealand - 2010

Saturday

England vs Australia - 1510
Italy vs Argentina - 1740
France vs Japan - 2010

Sunday

Wales vs Fiji - 1340
Scotland vs South Africa - 1610

Share your predictions, post some reactions, and bonus question: how many cards this weekend?

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[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 days ago

I know the redditors get up in arms when anybody suggests tampering with this beautiful facet of Rugby that everybody comes to the stadium to see; but honestly scrum penalties are just whack these days. A knock-on just shouldn't need to lead to a >40m advantage being given to one team by the referee, especially when if the team had kicked it even 10m it would have been advantage over!

I would much prefer scrum infringements to be free-kicks only unless its a defensive scrum penalty on your 5m line where you might be cheating to stop a potential try scoring drive (although they are exceedingly rare these days). In pretty much every other facet of play the team feeding the scrum is getting the advantage at a restart of having the ball after they previously did not - that's the advantage already!