Loose pass: Ireland did not pay the right price ‘for the crime of Garry Ringrose and England’ Lucky Waves’ in six nations: Planet Rugby

This week we will be in terms of the advantage of the red card, the oral protector readings and the false dawn of England in the six nations …

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Loose Pass does not believe he goes against the grain when we say we are not, we have never been and we will never be, a 20 -minute red card fan. Despite the protests of legislators that permanent reds can still be granted by a serious dirty game, it still does not fit.

Welsh I could remember it with a particular frustration this week. When Garry Ringrose Ben Thomas charged from the head up, causing one of those heads to the head that will never be examined by the bunkers, the score was 10-6 to Ireland. When Bundee Aki came to replace the rining sent, the score was 18-13 to Wales and it was a well-deserved advantage; Ireland seemed properly shaking.

It is easy to go everything I could do in this, but it clearly had many more possibilities to win that game against 14 men than against 15, regardless of the fact that the replacement of the expelled player is a world -class center that is surely a Shoo-in for lions this summer. Ireland Essentially suffered very little for the indiscretion bar of ringing about 10 additional minutes with a man below; There will be many who said that they could even have benefited from it in the final stages of the game.

And exactly how atrocious it needs to be a crime for a red card to be permanent instead of 20 minutes anyway? There is no suggestion that Ringrose was picar Thomas, but at the same time the technique was aggressive and negligently poor. It will be suspended for a couple of weeks and will be stopped in the mischievous passage at the School of Appeals, but the team has not taken one for him as a result.

The red cards distributed for contact with the head have been criticized for being too strict and by sighing the balance of the games. But officials and TMO have improved a lot to choose a poor technique of accidental collisions during the months and seasons; Rigor has become a problem less than what it was.

Biased games? That is an argument, there is another perfectly rational argument that Ringrose’s poor Tackle technique should have opened a door for Wales to take advantage, but that the 20 -minute red card closed it again. That is also a biased game, where a team does not pay the appropriate price for the minor crimes of a player.

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The conclusion is to stop modifying the problem and concentrate on improving to solve what a red card deserves and what not. At this time we have a red card without red card effect, which does not feel good.

The oral protector never lies?

About 15 minutes from the clash of the Principality, Wales Prop. Nicky Smith Aimed at the touch line to the offer of doctors for an evaluation of head injuries.

I was furious. He raised his oral protector and pronounced several words of choice on ‘This thing’ (expletive eliminated) before leaving, passing the evaluation and re -joining the playing field a few minutes later.

It would be intriguing to see the data of the mouthpieces. How, for example, Smith’s oral protector recorded a worrying collision but Thomas’, in his collision with Ringrose, did not? What was the collision in question?

How, in the case, Thomas did not take aside for a talk and a finger monitoring action anyway? Having seen her lens enough time while Ringrose was in trial per camera, it certainly seemed to be a rattles.

There is no doubt that the mouthparters of data are an additional good barrier for head injuries and anything that moves us in the right direction, it is necessary to maintain. But there was no obvious collision in which Smith was crunch more or less than any other player in any of the numerous Rucks or Scrums in advance. The ideal is that the data and events are tested by synchronous before the players begin to be removed from random games.

England riding a wave

There is another universe in which the passes adhere to the normally reliable hands of Antoine Dupont and the kicks of Finn Russell go among the posts. In that universe, England They are 0 of 3 and, given the in progress in the club game at this time, in a complete crisis, with sharp knives masses about to Steve BorthwickBack.

But that’s another place. England in this universe is dominating the ability to win even when it does not play well, to accumulate points even when the attack looks overwhelming, to ensure decisions at key moments, even when they are not at the top of the game or its flow.

Those are crucial skills for the best teams (ask Ireland). With an appearance Italy tired below and if France makes England a favor in Dublin, Mr. Borthwick’s men could be playing Wales for a, no doubt long, shot at the Six nations Title on the last weekend.

Such waves of luck can be mounted and used to reach safer coast. But at some point, England will need to start winning games, in addition to being lucky enough to play teams that lose them.