The Reaper wrote:
Who the hell wrote that green card rule? It's an absolute state. Basically anybody staying down forcing the ref to stop play will be subject to either a HIA, interchange or green card.... Except if they stay down as a result of foul play. In that case they won't need to do any of the above (unless a physio deems they need a HIA ofc)
Now, I was never of the opinion that they should introduce a green card for players staying down... IMO you can't really encourage players that might be injured to get back up as that takes us backwards (I think it would be better to just allow the VR to review the incident whilst play continues and advise the ref in terms of sanctions so he can apply it the next time the game stops) but I have no idea what this rule is supposed to achieve. Surely just going to make the issue worse.
It's hard because we'd got to a point where they were staying down to stop play when the opposition had a roll on, but the green card does potentially encourage players to get up when they're genuinely injured which isn't great either. I don't like the common rule but not sure what a good rule would be to replace it with.
Statistics: Posted by Grimmy — Thu Dec 19, 2024 11:11 am
