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WHY AND WHAT THE ALL
BLACKS PROPOSE.
One of the proposed alterations to the rules of Rugby which the New Zealand delegates (Messrs Dean and Wilson) propose bringing before the Inter- pational Confernce concerns the throw- in from touch."
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As present, of course, there is limit, no maximum or minimum, to the length player my throw the hall; the only
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bulatioNew Zealanders, SAYS
Mercian in the Athletic News, want lo see the ve yards throw-in universally adopted with the penalty of a freekick if the ball is not thrown, ör is prevented from being thrown, five yards.
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Now this is one of the rules which, by special dispersation of the Rugby Union, the New Zealanders have been playing nuler in their own country for some years, so that they have had pretty good opportunity of deciding whether it is a good law or met. Coming back to the old system as followed in this. courtry. they are all the more convinced that the change is for the better of the
same.
There will perhaps, be little disagrees meat with Mr. Wilson when he points out that in 20 times out of a hundred when the ball is only thrown in a couple of yards or so and that is invariably the case when it is throwe. in by the de fending side that pressed back my to its own goal lia-it is knocked on or it is smothered. with a resultant scrum-
mage,
KILLING AND SCRUMMAGE,
By insisting on a limit of five yards at least the present tendency to rough- house stuff is eliminated. That is the experience int Rugby-loving country where it has now undergone a fair trial.
Our visitors, too, would like to see the advantage bule "applied to every phase of the line-out. That means that if an upporent catches the ball and knocks it on the other side, if it gains an advan Lage thereby, can play on. At present krock-on from a line-out means scrtuimage, and the object of the sug gested revision is to do away with as many unnecessary scrunimages, as .poas. ible. And to that mine out of eysry tou iervent spectators will subscribe, a
Hear, hear."'
Two comparatively minor proposals aimat eliminating the present need" for the kicker and the placer to be different players in the case of peralty-kicks, and at doing away for the reed of a referee to blow his whistle if a player knocks the ball on zad recovers it before it reaches the ground."
CONVERTED BY EXPERIENCE. And that brings me to one of the must! interesting of all the proposals. It is in
the terms: -~-
If the ball drops directly into touch from a kick, except "in the case of a penalty kick, and the player be in his wn 35, it shall be brought back and the line-out formed from touch the point where the player was at the time when he kicked the ball.
Nom when Auckland got permission from the Rugby Union to adopt this plan Mr. Wilson Frankly admits that he was not in favour of it. He had the same idea which is prevalent in this country that kicking into touch is a means of saving the forwards, and that the increased opening out of the play which automatically follows by doing away with a lot of this touch-finding kicking must mean an extra tax upon the players, tax which, it is argued, is too heavy to expect many amateur players to bent.
Dr. Wilson's conversion was gradual.. He knew that the captains of seven out of ten senior clubs in Auckland-all of them forwards-favoured the change, but it was not until he came to England with the present tourists and saw how much better and brighter the game is under: the system in vogue in his own country that he became a whole-hearted enthus- inst.
It is a rale which particularly affects the forwards and the full-back. So far as the full-back is concerned it is claim ed that Nepia is a natural development: of a rule which calls for sure catching; and good length and accurate kicking on the part of a full-back. And Nepla as all of us who have seen him will testify, is a pretty sound argument in favour of a change if that is so.
ADVANTAGES OF THE CHANGE.
Then as to the forwards. Mr. Wilson says there is, not a forward in New Zea- Iand who would go back to the old rule. That, of course, is a pretty sweeping statement, but certainly all the members of the New Zealand pack over here with whom I discussed the point were unani. monaly in favour of the alteration.
eir view is that under the changed Condition - thers" is less serummaging. The aumber of scrummages in the pra sent tour bas averaged abut sixty per match, and the forwards, in comparison with their task at home, say these games are nothing else batshove, shove, shove. That is why they are in favour of the change. it makes the game less tiring, they say
Less Brummaging means less "bard grafts knocking about, and more open play.
Proposals 11, 12 and 13 ure to the effect that no scrummages should be formed less thar ten yards from the touch line; that halftime should not ex- ceed ten minutes (there would be a row this country if it did); and that in- jured players may be replaced with the consent of the opposing captain.
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These, rather summarily dealt with, are the main proposals which the Inter- national conference will consider. I do not suppose for a moment that the New Zealandert expect they will be accepted unanimously.
But, at any rate, it will be remember. ed that they are made, by a country where Rugby is taken more seriously than we take it over here and where the more important changes that the aug- gested have been given a thorough trial. and have been found to justify the. change.
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