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Stats: 6N, Round 3
2010-03-11 20:30:01
We give some statistics from the three closely-contested matches this weekend and then some totals in which you can see which team is most penalised, which kicks most, which scores the most tries and so on.
Laws: Try, try, try again
2010-03-08 14:00:02
You can go for weeks and weeks in the Super 14 with something like two thousand things referees have had to look for each weekend and there is no controversy. Then comes a weekend when controversies flourish. It happened this weekend. They were not every-day controversies, either, but they concerned tries given and not given.
Watson on the Big Four
2010-03-03 15:33:16
Before the Super 14 got going and at the request of the Super 14 coaches, certain existing laws were highlighted as in need of  more careful attention and application with a view to making a faster and more creative game. André Watson, South Africa's refereeing boss, has taken stock.
Statistics, Super 14, Week 2
2010-03-02 13:16:51
Have you ever seen a Super 14 match like the one in Johannesburg? Mind you, have you ever seen any match like it? A team scored 65 and loses! It looks like a misprint. We give some statistics for the Week 2 matches.
Statistics: Super 14, Week 3
2010-03-02 13:02:12
Week 3 was a good weekend for the New Zealand sides, for all five of them won. It was a poor weekend for South African and Australians sides who managed just one win each. The stats will tell you what happened match by match and you can then see which side has scored the most (or the least), which team has been penalised most (or least), and other details.
Laws: Waugh has a point
2010-02-23 13:15:02
After the match between his Waratahs and the Stormers at Newlands on Saturday, Phil Waugh, captain of the Waratahs and an experienced flank forward, complained about the new application of the law because it ceased to allow a contest at the tackle. He has a point.
Laws: Tackle Watch
2010-02-18 18:15:02
The tackle is such a big issue at the moment - the burning issue in rugby. But then it has been a burning issue for many years and looks likely to remain so.
Stats: Super 14, Round 1
2010-02-17 21:30:02
The 2010 Super 14 has kicked off with, as seems usual, more concentration on the application of existing laws. The Big Four are under the spotlight - tackle, scrum, obstruction and offside ahead of kicks.
Some Six Nations statistics, Round 2
2010-02-15 11:48:35
In Round 2 Wales beat Scotland in a thriller, France's were too good for Ireland and England just managed to spare their blushes against Italy. We give some statistics from the matches. You would be surprised which team passed least.
Some Six Nations statistics, Round 1
2010-02-08 17:30:02
We give some statistics from the matches in the first round of the Six nations - tight matches rather than matches of creativity and adventure.
Laws: The Scrum
2010-02-02 10:00:02
At the National Referees' course at Newlands and the provincial Referees' course at Hartebeesthoek in January, scrumming dominated discussion of law application. Scrumming is one of the Big Four along with Tackle, Offside and Maul.
Two refs ... a South African invention
2010-02-02 15:31:08
The Australians are making a big fuss about the possible introduction of a two-referee system in Super Rugby, but it is a systems that has long been in use in South Africa.
How referees are watched
2010-01-20 19:58:29
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes - Who will guard the guards. Ancient Roman Juvenal asked the question and he was not even thinking about rugby referees, but it is a question often asked in a rugby context - who is going to referee the referees?
What refs watch
2010-01-12 00:37:36
A friend asked on Friday how many things a referee has to watch in a match, and it seemed a good idea to find out.
Law Discussion: 2010 starts
2010-01-04 11:33:29
It's the new year in the frozen north and the sweltering south. There is much celebrating and in the north there is also some rugby, and so some incidents to discuss. The incidents are from two matches in England's Premiership - Sale Sharks against Harlequins in Manchester and London Wasps against Newcastle Falcons. But first there is a matter of balls.
Law Discussion: From the Premiership
2009-12-29 13:13:44
Wasn't the crowd at Twickenham wonderful on Sunday? Over 76 000 spectators a record for England's Premiership, getting close to what Stade Français get at Stade de France. And it was a match that ended with great excitement, three tries in the last 12 minutes for a 21-20 result.
Law Discussion: Heineken 4
2009-12-23 00:19:00
It's a pity one cannot red-card the weather. It would have helped this past weekend when matches froze. Didn't you admire Edinburgh and Bath in the ran/sleet/snow at Murrayfield, just for the way they tried to play constructive rugby in the freezing muck.
Law Discussion - dangerous acts
2009-12-22 19:39:00
Does the dangerous play occur only in open play? Is it dealt with only if the victim in injured? Surely neither of those can be correct, not if we believe that the Laws of the Game apply equally to all, but then watch three incidents in the match between Perpignan and Munster.
Law Discussion - Heineken Cup, Rd 3
2009-12-15 14:19:00
There was a lot of excitement in Round 3 of the Heineken Cup with some splendid rugby when, as the sun shone, there was greater emphasis on running with the ball than kicking it.
It's not the laws' fault
2009-12-09 17:00:44
Rugby Rugby's oracle Paul Dobson agrees with former England lock Paul Ackford, who feels it is "the mentality of the players and the coaches which corrupt the product", not the way the game is set up.
Statistics: November 2009, Week 4
2009-11-30 17:28:45
There was foul weather and there were two great matches - in Cardiff and, above all, in Marseille. We give some statistics from each of the matches.
Law Discussion - Scrum figures
2009-11-25 15:33:12
Before the November Tests started the top refereeing people gathered in London and had a lot to say about the scrums. After the first full week of November, there was much miserable controversy about scrums after New Zealand suffered in Milan. That produced greater refereeing awareness in the second week.
Law Discussion: Scrums - again
2009-11-24 13:44:00
There was a lot of upset after the Italians shattered the All Black scrum in Milan and public suggestions from on high that the referee had got it wrong and needed to go on a scrumming course.
Statistics: November 2009, Week 3
2009-11-23 23:44:00
There were six matches this weekend with a surprising result in Edinburgh which was determined by the last kick of the match. The other results were pretty well expected on a weekend of difficult weather in Europe.
Statistics: Wembley
2009-11-18 16:42:46
The Saracens and the Springboks met at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday, a match the Saracens won 24-23. We give some statistics. If some of the Sarries' names look Saracens it is because 10 of their players were Saracens.
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