The rugby law book will be cut by 50%

[TheStroBro Profile]

So I've got beef with the Cipriani red. He had no ability to shift his body lower because he was basically standing upright when Scannell put his head down and into his shoulder less than a meter away. He lowered the crown of his head to either draw the penalty or protect himself or both. Unless we're protecting bot the defender and attacker here...it's just bullshit. What should happen here is a yellow to Scannell if the law was balanced.

[RugbyLiebe Profile]

Also I find Maul especially disturbing in the German version of the law book without an IPA guide of its pronounciation.

This. Maul literally means "mouth of an animal" in German and it is also used to say to somebody to shut up "Halts Maul" = (Shut your pie-hole).
That's a word I actually prefer the German version "Paket" (=packet in english).

[Gorbeh Profile]

There was an unofficial translation of the 2009 laws, not officially sanctioned by the IRB.

It still can be downloaded at https://www.drvreferees.de/images/sdrv/laws/RegelnGesamt.pdf

And this version was written in the German terms I talked about. The usage of the English terms is kind of a self-fulfilling prophesy, if the only official version of the laws you can use is written in English and all the coaches and a large player base is English speaking, of course you’d use the English terms.

Also I find Maul especially disturbing in the German version of the law book without an IPA guide of its pronounciation.

Nevertheless, using the terms mark and ruck is more suitable on the field, even for native German speakers. On one hand, Mark as only on vowel, Marke two. On the other hand, offenes Gedränge and Gedränge aren't distinguishable on the field. Even had the problem during practise while refereeing, as some people thought I wanted to stop play when calling Gedränge instead of ruck.
I definetly like the translation of the laws, though I still prefer the original version, as there are some aspects lost during a translation as always. But as long as there are no rule mistakes (which I couldn't find) it helps younger players and non fluent English speakers tremendously to get a better grasp of the game.

[Werner Profile]

There was an unofficial translation of the 2009 laws, not officially sanctioned by the IRB.

It still can be downloaded at https://www.drvreferees.de/images/sdrv/laws/RegelnGesamt.pdf

And this version was written in the German terms I talked about. The usage of the English terms is kind of a self-fulfilling prophesy, if the only official version of the laws you can use is written in English and all the coaches and a large player base is English speaking, of course you’d use the English terms.

Also I find Maul especially disturbing in the German version of the law book without an IPA guide of its pronounciation.

Nevertheless, using the terms mark and ruck is more suitable on the field, even for native German speakers. On one hand, Mark as only on vowel, Marke two. On the other hand, offenes Gedränge and Gedränge aren't distinguishable on the field. Even had the problem during practise while refereeing, as some people thought I wanted to stop play when calling Gedränge instead of ruck.
I definitely like the translation of the laws, though I still prefer the original version, as there are some aspects lost during a translation as always. But as long as there are no rule mistakes (which I couldn't find) it helps younger players and non fluent English speakers tremendously to get a better grasp of the game.

Strange discussions. The wording "Tackle" has been introduced in the 2000 german law translation and replaced the misleading "Halten". Ruck has been introduced 2005 and replaced "Offenes Gedränge", where the most common call before was "offenes". The call for a Mark (introduced 2018 and replaced "Marke") was "Mark" for at least decades in the german translation. Now only the naming of the process of calling "Mark" changed in addition.

The "official" 2018 version replaced the former "unoffical" German version from 2016 and replaced some wording by the English original. So what. The times they are a-changin'.

The 2018 Laws of the Game is a major revised version ("cut by 50%" ?!). Thank's for the extensive work by the involved persons from the German Rugby Referees Union SDRV.

2c

[frakturfreak Profile]

Also I would make a point that the one extra syllable of „Paket“ compared to „Maul“ doesn’t make much difference in understandibility. Which other word beginning with Pa- is there could it be confused with in a situation where a Maul could form? I could’ve lived with the German terms mentioned in the definitions. It wouldn’t have been this hard to implement.

[FLIDTA RISXVA Profile Website]

ANNUAL UPDATE >> https://laws.worldrugby.org/

NINE LANGUAGES RETAINED -- AFRIKAANS DROPPED

QUICKLY BROWSED AND FOUND 5 MINOR AMENDMENTS | CORRECTIONS

THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE: BOTH TACKLE AND RUCK NOW REFER TO
*HINDMOST PART ON ANY PLAYER (INVOLVED) * TO VINDICATE
2017 ENG-NZL DUBIOUS OFFSIDE CALL THAT CHALKED UNDERHILL'S TRY OFF

STILL MISSING VITAL PROVISION -- AT HALF-TIME TEAMS CHANGE ENDS

THIS WAS DELETED DURING RE-WRITE BUT WAS MISSED BY
ALL 10 TRANSLATORS ... BAR GEORGIAN = ME

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[FLIDTA RISXVA Profile Website]

AFRIKAANS REINSTATED as #8

https://laws.worldrugby.org/downloads/W ... 019_AF.pdf

XHOSA, DUTCH and PORTUGUESE still MISSING

[Thomas Profile Website]

World Rugby and unions advancing evidence-based approach to injury-prevention:

World Rugby has set out its 2019 plan to further mitigate the risk of injury in the sport, beginning with a dedicated laws forum in March.

https://www.world.rugby/news/389938

New alterations to the laws of the game

Meanwhile, the World Rugby Executive Committee has approved to adopt the revised Television Match Official (TMO) protocol into Law 6.16. This operated as a trial in the November window with the aim of reducing time impact and placing greater decision-making responsibility on the referee. The protocol can be viewed here https://laws.worldrugby.org/?law=6.

Law 15 (Ruck): The Executive Committee has also approved amendments to Law 15.4 to further clarify the laws regarding offside lines at the tackle and ruck. The revised law can be found here https://laws.worldrugby.org/?law=15.

[FLIDTA RISXVA Profile Website]

World Rugby secretly changes offside rule

https://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/world-r ... e-20190125

QUICKLY BROWSED AND FOUND 5 MINOR AMENDMENTS | CORRECTIONS

THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE: BOTH TACKLE AND RUCK NOW REFER TO
*HINDMOST PART ON ANY PLAYER (INVOLVED) * TO VINDICATE
2017 ENG-NZL DUBIOUS OFFSIDE CALL THAT CHALKED UNDERHILL'S TRY OFF

Posted: 08 Jan 2019

SO, I have beaten them by 20 days

[FLIDTA RISXVA Profile Website]

UNBELIEVABLE but it seems SOCCER went RUGBY's way LAWS-wise

From this very thread

WR have formed Law Review Group in around NOV 2015
and Media Releases were issued just before XMAS holidays

From here >> https://www.theifab.com/history/laws | Last para

2016 | IFAB selected David Elleray to oversee the rewrite of the Laws of the Game.

The most recent update is expected to make the Laws clearer, less subject to contradicting interpretation
and, with over 10,000 words removed from the Law and Interpretations sections, also significantly shorter. ...

The recent update to the Laws of the Game has the goal to make the rules easier to understand
not only for the referees, but also to fans of football worldwide.

The Law book in its current shape, redesigned in terms of content, language and appearance, is the result
of the most extensive revision approved by the Technical Subcommittee in the 130 year history of IFAB.

What they got I'm not sure ... Checked my archives and found that
2011 soccer laws were 136 pages long, whereas this new, revised
2020 version ends at 224 (not counting blank pages at the tail)

*PS* Ice hockey's IIHF produced similar, comprehensive re-write in summer 2014

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