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So yea, I’m actually with you, but honestly these are still the type of player that really needs to/is yet to prove theselves. Samisoni is one that has, at the highest level for the All Blacks, yes, he had some really powerful displays against South Africa and the like when he came in after the Ireland series loss, but even then they were sort of out of the blue and yea, hasn’t quite hit the same level. Like (and I really like him) i’d even go far enough to say Aumua was the one to have the dynamic games (last tour against France) more recently.

Some Bok supporters have this conspiracy theory that if any other team did silly restarts to manufacture scrums and lineout leaping in the middle of the field that it wouldn't be criticized but congratulated.

The fact is no other team is doing this silly restart and jumping stuff because it's viewed as…..silly.

A dummy at no time obstructs the opposition or cynically attempts to extract a ruling. It was a perfectly executed blindside try which simply caught the defence asleep. It's not comparable with a deliberate offside at the restart or silly jumps to create yet another boring maul against a team that predictably lacked the firepower to stop it.

As I've said with a player being unnecessarily lifted in the middle of the park then that is creating obstruction as defense isn't allowed to tackle a player in the air.

Apart from Rassie the rest of us in the world of rugby don't want Rassie to create a new source of obstruction outside the maul.as we don't want to transform rugby into blocking like gridiron.

It would be great actually if world rugby said if the Boks want to lift their players outside of lineouts then the opposition can just smash them in the air as it would be a learning lesson for the Boks.

But of course that would be ridiculously unsafe so the whole stupid idea needs to be banned, it's not innovative it's just stuffing around with the game we all enjoy.

Rassie is a great rugby man, of that I've no doubt but he has received lengthy bans for a reason and this nonsense is that side of Rassie that's not great.

At the restart it was a penalty as the player wasnt just offside ahead of the kicker but he then interfered with play. Yes, perhaps a scrum if he hadn't of interfered with the ball offside.

Again, another law change needed due to Rassie. Deliberately not restarting correctly, professional foul, yellow card. I just want to watch a contest not a first five farting around with a cynical play where the opposition has no part to play, we want a contest.

I cannot reinforce how absurd these ‘innovations’ are, they're not tactics that other coaches want to do as they're silly.

You think the Bok scrum is incredible, if you truly believe that then contact Rassie and ask him to cynically organize all scrum restarts this season when his team kicksoff with tier one sides like the Allblacks and Argentina feeding the ball into the scrum, that will be fantastic to watch as Pumas and Allblacks steam into the backline with free ball.

We both know the Boks wouldn't dare to run it against a top tier team so why do it against Italy? Respect….

You're right it's a good era for the game, let's not muck it up with this abject nonsense. We don't want to see a midfield ‘lineout’ to make yet more mauls.

Again, mauls and scrums aren't a position of strength for just the Boks.

Rassie isn't creating a dynasty either, the Allblacks won two world cups in a row which abruptly ended.

The Boks are in the mix to win again in Australia but I can tell you now they're not doing themselves any favors with all the perceived arrogance.

We all saw what happened to the invincible Allblacks in 2007, humiliation in a quarter.

Yes I’m on the same tact, and it’s most pertinent with your main point over the last few months or so, France should change the policy for just this one year/opportunity every 4y WC cycle. I don’t see how every year needs the welfare treatment.

Of course my stance is that they can not exclude a group of players, that is basically aparthied for its stars. They can say someones not fit to tour, but they need to do this one by one, its the ‘premium’ group angle that just doesn’t sit with me at all, whether your Argentina or the ABs.

I would really hope that France can make this sort of allowance in the future, and be given the top team after after however the Lion are playing, and be able to use it as some sort of jumping board. Aussie were in a bad state last time right, but hopefully in future it would mean theyre gaureneted a powerhouse.

I don’t think that’s a major issue now. This is just an article where a player said he doesn’t like the law, as it re to players and the above dynamic I mention. And all the comments agree with you, I was just pointing out that if the ref determined he was tackling or diving into a ruck it wouldn’t be a yellow (and this ruling has been determined “all the time” as well), but yes, in this example it’s generally ruled an knockon.