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Tue 03 Mar 2009Yellow-card offence modified
THE EXPERIMENTAL yellow-card offences have been slightly modified ahead of next month’s congress in an effort to increase the chances of them being voted into the rule book.
One of the yellow-card offences, “to wrestle with an opponent, on the ground, and away from play”, is no longer deemed a highly disruptive foul, and instead becomes a black book offence. Congress will also have the option of doing away with any carryover of yellow cards, where a second offence currently results is a two-week ban.
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