Super Rugby Pacific specific:
– TMO to review potential foul-play yellow cards being upgraded to red cards once a player goes to the sin bin, while play continues.
– 20-minute red-card to remain, but referees are now able to issue ‘full’ red card for deliberate acts of foul play.
– Defending halfback must remain on team’s own side of middle line if within a metre of the scrum.
World Rugby directed:
– Stopwatch on kickers: 90 seconds for conversions, 60 seconds for penalties.
– Lineouts and scrums to form within 30 seconds of marks being set, ball to be used within five seconds of ruck being formed.
– TMOs to only ‘interrupt’ play to investigate serious, clear and obvious incidents of dangerous play missed by on-field officials.
– Only ‘clear and deliberate attempts to knock the ball forward’ to be penalised (yellow card/penalty try for extremely cynical actions that prevent try-scoring opportunity or linebreak).
– Removal of designated water breaks.
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