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January 2025 changes on the way

We may as well do away with line-out and go with a free tap on the 15 .
and it will be the elite end that create that change that the rest of us then just have to meekly acquiesce to
:-(

which is indeed exactly your point in another thread marc of course.
 
Yes... and no.

I think its a fair bet that if the oppo have never put anybody up at the last five defensive lineouts on their own 5m line, they wont on the 6th.
The point being made however is a somewhat faceitious one, and not in reality likely to happen - I am illustrating however the point that given a gamble as described (and you are right - it is) - why coudnt that action occur ? - bottom line - no reason at all

Is that ludicrous ? Obviously.
Would it NEVER happen? Never say never - and if there is one thing this wonderful forum has shown me over the years/decades, weird and wonderful scenarios nobody ever envisaged DO happen. I even pre-empted the Italian lineout defence non engagement tactic years before they bamboozled England with it, and was roundly told here it would never happen and nobody would be that daft to try it. Guess what ;-)
Yes, good points. My hope would be that there would remain a 'tolerance' of "not straight". Something like, it still needs to be caught by a player in the lineout.

Your example is not so ludicrous. I guess that if the defenders successfully defend it five times, then no reason they shouldn't continue. If they have shipped 5 tries, then they would have the common sense to throw someone up.

Bottomline for me, is that I am OK with this change, with the condition that the law is amended with some common sense parameters around it.
 
I couldn't say, I don't see the change right now, Simon.
Well you are ok with it subject to "...with the condition that the law is amended with some common sense parameters around it..."

As that condition is not in place surely Simon is right to say "not really".
 
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