On September 21 2015 02:42 Laurens wrote: oh, I thought they paused the clock during injuries etc?
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The game is over when the ball goes out of the field - so they reached 80 and had still an action going on
It's actually over when time expires and the ball is dead (usually out of bounds or knocked on). You can take a quick tap with penalties but if you kick for touch or ask for a scrum it ends the game. Scrums can be reset (like in the Japan vs SA game) if the initial one was set in regulation.
Wow the Puma's can hold their head up high after that game. Great respect shown by both teams at the end. Now I'm going through rugby withdrawal... Why is there this funny 3 day break.
On September 21 2015 12:14 crc wrote: Wow the Puma's can hold their head up high after that game. Great respect shown by both teams at the end. Now I'm going through rugby withdrawal... Why is there this funny 3 day break.
On September 21 2015 02:42 Laurens wrote: oh, I thought they paused the clock during injuries etc?
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There is no injury time in rugby, when there is a long stop (injury, ref discussing with TMO, etc.) the clock is paused. However the game doesn't end at 80:00 precisely (like in soccer for example), but the "advantage" has to be played out.
So: - the game goes on until a fault is committed (pass forward, ball goes out, someone scores) - if I'm playing with an "advantage" (i.e. the opponents commit a fault while I'm playing so I would get a penalty in my favor) and I commit a fault (pass forward,...) the game restart from the penalty (so it can go longer than 80min even with multiple plays after the 80th minutes).
Note that you cannot voluntarily throw the ball outside of the field (to stop the game) unless you are kicking it out.
An epic example (Amazing Shane Williams...)
Here Wales transform the try and there are still 10 seconds to play, so the ref cannot stop the game, even if at the end the restart from Scotland happens already in over time.
P.s. the whole point of the game is to create a mismatch between attack and defense, where the attackers are more then the defenders (ideally you should always score/pass the defence, in a 3v2 or 2v1 situation), so having one or more players sin-binned (yellow card - 10min out) it's a big deal and almost always results in points for the team with more players
Wow I love the rugby world cup, so much rugby to watch..!!! :D :D :D
World Cup's schedule is awful. 5-team groups shouldn't exist. Japan has 2 matches to play in 4 days while Scotland had not played yet. Of course they're exhausted.
Not saying they would have won otherwise but it is a factor.
Indeed don't understand a 5 man group system. This is the first time with it right? They had previously had bigger pools but they did a bigger system before or something (can't remember fully)
Also add in say that rest period in a big group like the England Australia Wales group. You could find yourself playing vs Wales and Australia in the space of 4 days and the opponents playing once in 7. Could really mess it up. Oh well, they will learn fast
On September 24 2015 00:29 Pandemona wrote: Indeed don't understand a 5 man group system. This is the first time with it right? They had previously had bigger pools but they did a bigger system before or something (can't remember fully)
Also add in say that rest period in a big group like the England Australia Wales group. You could find yourself playing vs Wales and Australia in the space of 4 days and the opponents playing once in 7. Could really mess it up. Oh well, they will learn fast
No it has been 5-teams group since 2003. Before that it was 4 groups of 4 except 1999 where it was 5 groups of 4.
Ahhh i thought i read a change to it. Maybe it was from 5 to something else then and it hasn't been confirmed yet.
World Rugby boss Brett Gosper has said a future World Cup could enlarge the number of teams taking part without losing competitiveness. Both England 2015 and Japan 2019 will have 20 teams, but 2023 may be larger.
I'm not die-hard rugby fan, but in a year without a football world cup/european championship, the rugby world cup is just as good to watch (except that germany never qualifies).
From what I understand, while the smaller nations are those that suffer the most from short rest periods, they'd still happily have 5 teams in a group instead of 4: For most of them, it's the only opportunity in four years where they get to play big teams and/or get some attention for their sport at home. If there were just 4 teams in a group, we might have even more teams in the situation of uruguay, knowing they dont have a single winnable game in their entire tournament, which isnt exactly desirable either. Now why the schedules tend to benefit bigger teams is another matter. I just hope that scheduling wont be a deciding factor for the group positions this time, unlike (probably) in 2011 with wales/samoa.