Archive for March, 2009

Mauls saved – ELV update

By Alastair McDermott | March 31st, 2009

The IRB conference (with coaches, refs, administrators and reps from all the major unions) spend the last 2 days reviewing the ELVs. Conclusion: most have been approved and sent on to be ratified, but vitally the maul collapse rule has been rejected (woohoo, that was always a bloody stupid idea), and the “sanctions” rule, which [...]

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6 Nations Final Day Predictions

By Alastair McDermott | March 21st, 2009

Coming to this a bit late – I’ve missed the first game of the day where France predictably did a demolition job on Italy. For England – Scotland, I think this is a close game, if Scotland perform like they did in the first half against Ireland then they have a change of winning this [...]

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