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In the inaugural Rainbow Cup that involves teams from Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Italy and South Africa some experimental laws will be trialled - see linked BBC report below for details of them.
Perhaps the most controversial is the intention to replace a player sent from the field by the referee (red card) with a substitute. There will have to be an interval of 20 minutes though between the departing red-carded player and the appearance of the substitute.
I presume a yellow card will still mean a ten minute banishment from the field which in effect means a red card is a 20-minute banishment in the sense that the team will be a player light for that period but no longer.
It would seem that if a team has more than one red-carded player a substitute can replace each one. What happens if a team has already used all its replacements in the normal course of the match doesn't seem clear.
I have serious doubts about the morality of this. It's almost an encouragement to indulge in foul play if a situation is desperate in an important match, knowing the the team itself won't be a player short for the entirety of the remainder of the game, unless there are 20 minutes or less to play. In football the comment that a player given a yellow card 'took one for the team' when deliberately indulging in unfair play is regularly espoused by commentators. I detest that. It makes a cheat's actions seem noble.
Many years ago sending a player off in rugby union was very rare and a referee was reluctant to do it knowing the opprobrium that would be silently brought down on his head by the rugby establishment. I once read a book about the game of rugby union where the situation was put like this: a chap is a bit of a bounder to indulge in unfair play but a referee is a bigger bounder if he sends a chap off for doing so.
According to the BBC report these experimental laws including the watering down of red cards has been tried in some domestic competitions New Zealand Australia .
www.bbc.co.uk
Perhaps the most controversial is the intention to replace a player sent from the field by the referee (red card) with a substitute. There will have to be an interval of 20 minutes though between the departing red-carded player and the appearance of the substitute.
I presume a yellow card will still mean a ten minute banishment from the field which in effect means a red card is a 20-minute banishment in the sense that the team will be a player light for that period but no longer.
It would seem that if a team has more than one red-carded player a substitute can replace each one. What happens if a team has already used all its replacements in the normal course of the match doesn't seem clear.
I have serious doubts about the morality of this. It's almost an encouragement to indulge in foul play if a situation is desperate in an important match, knowing the the team itself won't be a player short for the entirety of the remainder of the game, unless there are 20 minutes or less to play. In football the comment that a player given a yellow card 'took one for the team' when deliberately indulging in unfair play is regularly espoused by commentators. I detest that. It makes a cheat's actions seem noble.
Many years ago sending a player off in rugby union was very rare and a referee was reluctant to do it knowing the opprobrium that would be silently brought down on his head by the rugby establishment. I once read a book about the game of rugby union where the situation was put like this: a chap is a bit of a bounder to indulge in unfair play but a referee is a bigger bounder if he sends a chap off for doing so.
According to the BBC report these experimental laws including the watering down of red cards has been tried in some domestic competitions New Zealand Australia .

Red card replacements for Rainbow Cup
Teams in the inaugural Rainbow Cup will be able to replace dismissed players under trial laws being brought in for the tournament.
