The Board of European Rugby Cup has ratified the introduction of 23-man match day squads for the Heineken Cup and European Challenge Cup tournaments for 2009/10 season onwards. Now I know the original change did cross this blog when it happened but it is good to see two of the major competitions taking it on board.
This all follows on the recent alteration to Law 3 by the IRB and is aimed at reducing the number of games that go to uncontested scrums and to remove the advantage which one team may gain when uncontested scrums arise.
The alteration can be found under Law 3.15 Union Specific Variations which states the following (courtesy of the IRB website):
3.15 UNION SPECIFIC VARIATIONS
(a) A Union or Unions, where a match or competition is played between teams from two or more Unions, may implement variations to Law 3.4 for matches below international level as set out in (b) and/or (c) below.
(b) When 22 or 23 players are nominated in a team there must be sufficient front row players to play at hooker, tight-head prop and loose-head prop who are suitably trained and experienced to ensure that on the first occasion that a replacement in any front row position is required, the team can continue to play safely with contested scrums.
(c) A provision may be introduced that where uncontested scrums are ordered as a result of there being no suitably trained and experienced front row replacement for any reason, the team concerned shall not be entitled to replace the player whose departure caused uncontested scrums.
The ERC said that from this season forward each club’s match day squad now must contain a minimum of three specialist front row players within the named eight replacements comprising two props and a hooker.
It goes further and specifically included the option in Law 3.15(c) which states that if all front row replacements have been utilised during a game, and there is a further front row injury, and no fit front row player is available from the original starting team or replacement bench, the injured player will leave the field but may not be replaced.
For the record, as it stands currently, this option is not available for international matches.
@Treehugger – I think you understand it correctly.
@K9-MonsterLeeu – voetspore…..
85@Treehugger – We have not concentrated on or given attention to Mobile Blogging yet…
However, bloggers using Opera Mini or one of the newer Cell Phones with bigger and wider screen sizes (which will become commonplace in the next few years anyway) do not have problems with the layout.
Question we asked initially… do we want to cater for PC’s & Notebooks primarily or Mobile Phones… we decided on PC’s & Notebooks.
It has a lot to do with screen resolutions etcettera…
As example, Rugby-Talk automatically stretches to the required screen resolution format, no matter whether your screen resolution is 1024 x 768 or much better like 1400 x 1050 or even higher than that. Compare that to the “Dark side”… the better or higher your screen resolution, the narrower the actual reading content becomes, with wide useless space on the left and right, in other words it’s designed for 1024 x 768.
We’ve moved on, I suppose, and want to adapt to the future, not stay stagnant in the past…
Eish that was technical and that is not my forte. But thanks. Have to go supervise unloading of animal food. Bye
@K9-MonsterLeeu – 90
Jy moet nou net vir anti Dot vra om die jingle bells uit te kam 🙂 Kan nie hier verduidelik wat jingle bells is nie!
Sterkte aan al die spanne wat speel die naweek, in die besonder aan ons twee beste spanne: die Bulle en die Bokke. 😉
Straat Brak, ek hoor Ant Dot drink al vir ‘n week ‘n dubbel dosis Salusa 45…ek hoop jou verjaarsdag persent van haar is die moeite werd! Geniet die dag!
Geluk aan K9 blafmasjien wat verjaar vandag. Mag jou span vir jou ‘n mooi geskenk gee more.
99
en dan 100
98 @bdb Jy weet hy het die rekord gebreek vir die oudste lewende leeu die jaar…ok, was nie so ‘n mean fete gewees nie, was sy eie rekord maar nou ja!
101 @Koos – is Louis die Laeveldleeu nie die oudste lewende leeu nie ? Sien hom nog elke naweek in die naweek-Beeld !
I see the afternoon is hotting up… many faces here… come on, don’t be shy…
102@bdb – K99 is Louis die Laeveld Leeu se Oupa…
Hahaha
102 @bdb Nee jong, hy is K9 se jongste kind…
Wil julle nou wragtig vir my sê dat Supersport saai nie die Tjarks / Booland game uit nie ??
FFS !!
104 @grootblousmile Uhm ja en K9 sy pa?
Maar Supersport saai die o/19 Tjarks game uit om 17:00
Eishhhhh, hulle issie lekwar nie… flok !
@grootblousmile – Nie by my nie…maar dan weer, hulle saai niks hier uit nie!
Middag GBS, hoe gaan ons uitvind oor die tellings ? Het TR ‘n korrespondent in die Boland ? Is Ashley nie daar nie ?
Die spoorwegbus trek lekker fris by Beafortwes verby…
Ons kan altyd vir ex player vra om ons op hoogte te hou. Hy is mos een van die security guards daar by Boland Park…
104/105: dan is dit OOM K99 Oupaleeu van nou af vir my. Nie geweet hy is so oud nie !
112 @KingPaul Hy het compasionate leave…blykbaar iets verloor!
111@KingPaul – hoe lyk dit daar onder in die Kaap, loop die mense orals met blou truie aan ?
113 @bdb Hy is selfs ouer as dit 😯
@Koos –
Ek dog hy is gefire omdat hy te vroeg opgedaag het?
117 @KingPaul Niks gehad wat hom by die huis hou nie…
@bdb –
Nee wat, daar sal wel more ‘n paar verdwaalde siele op Nuweland wees!
Ons sal maar ‘n Tjarks / Boland Game Thread stig…. en Radio Sonder Mense luister… en as Radio Sonder Mense nie die Game Uitsaai nie… dan kakpraat ons maar net op die Thread….
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