The rebounds from rugby’s thinking heads are often confusing. Their latest discovery, in the padded comfort of the lounges of World Rugby (the International Federation), is enough to make part of an oval world cringe, naively convinced that the health of the players, these gladiators of modern times, is was at the heart of their concerns.
Meeting this Thursday, the council of the supreme body has in fact ratified, among other measures, the experimentation of a new rule for red cards from this summer, particularly during the Under-20 World Cup. in South Africa (June 29-July 19), and the Pacific Nations Cup, a competition bringing together Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, as well as Canada and the United States, from August 23 to September 21.
