ELV's...which will stay which will go...

[MielieSpoor]

SO the IRB have had their meeting for the last two days on this and have made some recommendations on which ELV's should stay and which laws (ELV's) should be done away with.

I'm in favour of everything recommended except for one. The fact that each team can determine their own numbers in the lineout romves some complexability at the lineout. I would like to see that one stay, but most probably the recommendations as quoted below is what we will end up with en of May.

From the meeting, the following are recommended to the Rugby Committee for adoption into Law:

Law 6 – Assistant Referees allowed
Law 19 – Kicking directly into touch from ball played back into 22 equals no gain in ground
Law 19 – Quick throw permitted in any direction except forward
Law 19 – Positioning of player in opposition to the player throwing-in to be two metres away from line-out and the line of touch
Law 19 – Pre-gripping of line-out jumpers allowed
Law 19 – Lifting in the line-out allowed
Law 19 – Positioning of the receiver at a line-out must be two metres away from line-out
Law 20 – Five-metre offside line at the scrum
Law 20 - Scrumhalf offside line at the scrum
Law 22 – Corner posts no longer touch in goal

The following were not recommended to the Rugby Committee for adoption into Law:

Law 17 - Maul - Head and shoulders not to be lower than hips
Law 17 - Maul - Pulling down the maul
Law 19 – Freedom for each team to determine line-out numbers

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