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World Rugby wants to generalize the 20-minute red card and has made it known. The international federation World Rugby announced on Tuesday that it had taken a step towards the adoption of several new rules tested this summer in different competitions, including the red card reduced to 20 minutes. The rules could therefore be adopted worldwide if approved at the World Rugby council on November 14, as the body announced in a press release.
World Rugby announcement
While these rules have been tested for several months in different competitions such as the Rugby championship, the Women XV or the Pacific Nations Cup, World Rugby now wants to test them in other competitions. They resulted in “an increase in playing time. The proposed changes (…) are designed to improve the experience of spectators and players by promoting faster play, reducing stoppages in play“, explains World Rugby. And in these new rules, we find that of the reduced red card: an excluded player could still no longer return to the pitch, but could be replaced after 20 minutes, allowing his partners to no longer finish the match at 14. Suffice it to say that this could add spice in the future to competitions that will have these rules.
To summarize
World Rugby wants to generalize the 20-minute red card and has made it known. The international federation World Rugby announced on Tuesday that it had taken a step towards the adoption of several new rules tested this summer in different competitions, including the red card reduced to 20 minutes.
