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RE: Tap Moves

Angus — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:32:30 GMT

On the subject of the ELVs in Aus

Only the Premier Grade and Premier Colts played them last season and a recent enquiry I made to the QRU as to which rules the other grades would be playing next season met with a "We'll let you know when we know reply" :D

Makes it a bit hard for the coaches not taking these grades to start planning for the pre season lol

Angus

RE: Tap Moves

d4zzler — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:07:33 GMT

Yep thats the case, obviously there are some new things like the defending team at a lineout must have someone in the 5mtr channel but 2mtrs away from the lineout - free kick for an infringement. And the off side lines at the scrum for the backline and the defending scrum half. But these can be found in here: http://www.irb.com/mm/document/NewsMedia/0/080711IRBELVGuideEN_5897.pdf

Aslo the Referees are meant to be tightening up on people 'sealing/bridging' over the ruck/break down.

Technically you have never been allowed to do this, but it has become common practice - so ref's have been instructed to watch for it.

RE: Tap Moves

steve johnson — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:40:17 GMT

Does that mean all the penalties/referees' responses are the same as last season?

RE: Tap Moves

d4zzler — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:10:02 GMT

Angus,

The IRB have only decided to use 13 ELV's around the world (not the 21 which were trialed down under last season).

Tap Moves

Angus — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:58:00 GMT

When I was younger,, no weekly training session was complete without running through at least one Tap Penalty move and we always used to really look forward to using them in a game (ex forward here)

Nowadays they seem to have completely disappeared from the game unless as a quick tap by a half back and then an offload to a surprised forward when the 9 realises he can't score himself

With the advent of the ELVs there is a significant increase in the number of Free Kicks being awarded (I believe this may not be the situation in the Nth due to a different punishment allocation)

What are your options with a free kick?

- you can't kick into touch directly and get the feed so that is generally out
- you can pump the ball high and chase it down to try and regather
- you can kick in play and get move up to encourage a return kick while having counter attackers already positioned to run i tback
- you can take a quick tap but this ends in problems as often as it is successful but still one of the best options
- you can select to take a scrum

However what happens if you aren't that good in scrums? You are basically selecting an option which at best could mean scrappy ball and at worst losing the thing altogether

Why not a return to the set tap move?

Angus