Radical new law trials to make draws a thing of the past - Ruck

Radical new law trials to make draws a thing of the past

Any regular-season matches tied at full time will no longer be a draw, as part of the new law variations being trialled by World Rugby.

#1. RETURN AFTER RED (Super Rugby)

If a player is red-carded, they may be replaced after 20 minutes by another player. The 20mins from when a player is red-carded to when they may be replaced is measured as “game time”. This follows the same measurement of time already in place for a yellow-carded player in the sin bin (mean sin bin clock is stopped when the game clock is stopped).

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