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Sanction this

October 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article. Last week Moses made some great points about how random the roll out of the ELVs seems to have been. It looks so bad that I can only think its a ruse employed by the usual dinosaurs to try and scupper them. Thanks to those still stuck in the […]

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Early thoughts on the new ELVs

February 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article. How many games of rugby have you watched or played? I bet enough that you could have had a guess at the outcome of simply converting some full-penalties to free kicks. The beauty of sport however, and especially what some would call an over-complicated sport like rugby union, is […]

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Experimental Law Variations (ELVs) in Super 14 2008

February 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article. Below are the ELVs being adopted by Super 14 in 2008.
On reading them there doesn’t seem to be that much that’s too drastically different, except for offside at the tackle, which by the sounds of things really piles the advantage onto the attacking side once they’ve made a break, […]

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