Top 5 Fastest Red Cards in Rugby! 

They are fast enough!

Great video. Rory Sutherland vs bath. The foul play happened within 15 seconds. He was sent off 1 minute into the game after the ref looked at incident

Ewels v Ireland

@@harrytutty1443 did you watch the video?

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It never deliberate, but always unfortunate. Because those are always never planned, it's just a natural instinct. But unfortunate, always a red

100% with you on this. So clear on slow-mo that it was intentional - perhaps not to get him in the mush, but certainly to make contact/fend off the advancing player. Nonsense from the commentator saying its a trailing leg. Absolutely wasn't.

Absolutely bollocks

I do struggle to understand why anyone watching their team play, would want the commentator to be so partisan that he may as well be the drunk idiot stood next to you in the pub.

Totally agree. Was surprised by the commentary. Seems pretty clear he raised his leg up.

Billy slater planet

dumb commentator saw otherwise

Agreed. It's not a "leg trailing in the air" like the commentator says. It's one thing to lift your knee to protect your body, but it's quite another to lift your entire leg, look at the other player, and then go straight-legged right to his face.

When he loses the ball backwards he raises his leg in an attempt to swing his upper body backwards to regather. Try it when you're jumping on a trampoline or into some water, it's instinctual if you're trying to grab something behind you. Unfortunately but definitely not intentional.

yeah 100% can't see why Warbuton didn't see the same. Clearly intentional.

Doesn't change the fact that they had to play the game with 14 men, though, does it?

Terrible red card decision, especially considering the very real evidence of a faked injury. It made the victory even sweeter, but you have to feel for Koroibete .

And that in a nutshell is the problem. The directives aren't being applied consistently. Both codes of rugby are going to struggle to survive as professional sports if they keep going like this with refs over reacting - if people pay for a 15 or 13 aside contest and matches are ruined every week after 5 mins fans will stop watching. The NRL has got this right and the other leagues need to apply some common sense.

Proper order, I played for years and would have had a card every week in the modern game! You play off your instincts and split second decisions!

@darryl paynts ITS JUST NOT CRICKET OLD CHAP

Totally agree, plus a ban from rugby for X number of years.

that was about as intentional as you can make it...

Spear tackles were outlawed decades before 2011...

Warburton didn’t spear the player (although he wasn’t far off getting to that point) - but most of outrage was because those tackles were punished inconsistenly in the tournament (some only getting penalties.)

In school you get taught to tackle low, then for some reason this is reversed at the professional level to a point players who do 'make a career of it'

And here's something to consider. In the 1970s and 1980s (when I was still playing the game) players were coached to put their head above the hip next to the ball-carrier's waist, wrap the arms and drive or drag the player to the ground. Tackles were more side-on than head-on, injuries in the tackle were quite rare, and normally down to very poor timing or very poor technique. From the 1990's onwards, as more and more players learned the skill of offloading the ball as they were tackled, tackle heights began to rise in order to trap the ball in the tackle. As a result, the players' builds gradually changed to give them more upper body strength, leading to more upright, more head-on tackles, and ball carriers learned to brace themselves. Along with that came higher and higher injury rates and the game changed from being a contact sport into being a collision sport. A return the technique of tackling below the armpits seems to be one possible answer to this problem. Now, I know there will be people out there who will bemoan this - they will complain that the "game is going soft", but we really have to take a dose of reality here. In many countries, player numbers in the grass roots, particularly at the school and junior club levels, are in decline, because parents are increasingly reluctant to let their kids play a sport that can get them seriously injured or even killed. If the game is to survive, it has to embrace reality.

@@davidanderson4091 I mean pretending that rugby isn't going to survive is the opposite of embracing reality.

LOL we all did and Andrew obliged :)

Same

Haha same 😂

He would also be number 1 at the softest red cards lol

Wasn’t the ref a French man to make it easier for the last match?

Yes but wasn't it his own teammate?

He should have done prison time for that. It was disgusting.

Aldo Adrain Morley in the GB /Aus test - 12 seconds ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VWqvmGddkyw.html

If we're adding Rugby League we've got to mention Adrian Morley's red against Australia after a whole 12 seconds!!

Yep, he wasn't even holding the same place he was hit

Keep crying

@@armellelalicorne3555 you sound like you drive a Prius my guy

Which is generally why they look for mitigation. This is borderline yellow/red, could be argued either way really. The defensive player stopped down a bit, but it wasn't much.

@@ThisIsAitch i hear you, i just dont think mitigation is enough. If an offensive player lowers their head to initiate contact they should get a card just as a defensive player would

@@mikecrain2076 Didn't it get dropped to yellow in appeal?

@@andrewneedham3281 it did. And that was the right call as far as the defender was concerned, at least as far as the rules are written currently. But it still didn't punish the offensive player for his actions that caused the contact

@@mikecrain2076 But you can't expect the ball carrier to just stand there without setting up for a contact with a man running to him at full speed. That's just a normal body reaction.

And it’s in it 😂

First time I've seen it. I don't even agree it's a red. Eyes on the ball the whole time, if he'd jumped it would have been a 50/50 and no issues. Harsh red

His shoulder hits him in the cheek/jaw. It’s a clear red.

@@philsswweightlossdiary2944 you are genuinely blind. Also the red card was quickly struck from the record

@@COBBL World Rugby said they reviewed all the angles and that initial contact was shoulder to shoulder. After watching this at slow speed they must have had an angle nobody else saw because it’s not shoulder to shoulder.

@@philsswweightlossdiary2944 It's shoulder to shoulder even with the French player crouching into it. Terrible call.

That French player should have been the one sent off for diving. Absolute disgrace. It was such an obvious dive.

It was an absolutely outrageous decision. The contact was below the shoulder and the French player ducked into it. Not even a penalty.

It got rescinded that red card upon review

@@chrisdavis3907 Australia still had to play with 14 men for the rest of the game, though, didn't they? It didn't right that wrong, did it?

i agree with you it is pretty harsh, but i get the feeling that the pressure on the refs to protect the head and neck of a player is bigger than them getting it wrong and sending someone off harshly. RFU doesnt want to be sued for millions when players start getting brain issues at the age of 40. although it feels like it can ruin the game, it is just a game at the end of the day and these players family lifes can be torn apart by brain injuries.

Agree. That ball carrier clearly dipped into the tackle. Also milked it a whole lot.

Agreed

@@dcmj3798 I'm sure there's an Orwell quote about the worst dictators being the ones who are doing it because they think they're being helpful... he's not wrong. The concept of adults being able to make their own choices seems to be disappearing.

@@Matt_Alaric yea i know what youre trying to say, and ive heard the argument that rugby is a brutal and dangerous game, but its one thing to break a leg and a completely different thing to get brain damage. (im not saying i think he should be sent off for this tackle btw, i think the player dropped into the tackle, im just stating that the refs are under immense pressure to protect the players)

But he didn't.

@@sueyourself5413 Hence his criticism of the call...

@@Matt_Alaric Take that dumb flag off of your profile. It means nothing.

Tbf koroibete still comes in high. In most tackle situations he’d be hitting at shoulder height at lowest. Extremely unfortunate, but it is a red

Are you kidding even the two first are red cards. 1. Contact with head with force 2. He has no chance to get the ball

@@maximewerner6474 2. he doesn't even see the player

@@beasty5876 that’s his problem

1. No clear Videos of contact to the head. Hard to deliberate. Simulation it might be. 2. He does not seem to be playing the ball and not paying attention, i agree with the red card here. 3. Agreed 4. Agreed 5. Agreed

@@Origynet 2. His head is up, looking directly at the ball the whole way with his arms outstretched to catch the ball. Not playing the ball? You can argue that he should have checked where the opponent was, but in no way can you reasonably say he wasn't playing the ball.

Clip 2 you could argue the player who caught the ball jumped into the white 15 and hit him in the head. I can see uncontested catches from kicks coming in for safety.

No foul at all for me. 50/50. Ref out order with a straight red.

@@Biffo1262 Gotta have situational awareness when jumping for the ball. Yeah, he has a right to jump for the ball, but he's also responsible for what he does while in the air.

Exactly thats what i was thinking

its not that, its the fact its a physical game and in real time things arent what they are slowed down. how much do you dumb down a physical game? This is literally like saying "lets slow down race cars because they are too fast" - nobody watches. Rugby viewings, especially in the southern HS are hugely down - Rugby league(nrl) have good a good balance of physical and safety with alot of common sense. big guy on little guy...how tf is a 6"4 or so guy ment to bend down to tackle some 5"7 at "correct" waist height? Im a massive die hard rugby fan but its hard to watch my sport get dumbed down so much.

that’s never a red, game’s gone soft !

@@MrSupermugen at the end of the day it’s done to protect the players. I’d rather see a few “contentious” decisions every so often if it means that these players can live a healthy life after they’ve retired.

@@fergus3083 NRL doesnt have any of that and the hits are still amazingly hard and doesnt get dumbed down like Union?

@@yourmomskitchen3236 The NRL are trying to introduce it maybe it's the differences in games but when ex players are suing because of onset dementia it's not a good look so something needs to change.

It should have been as the main mitigating factor there was that both players were low bracing for a tackle, it wasn't done at full height

If you look closely at all of the replays it wasn’t even hitting jelonchs head

@@TheChin58 Nope red all day. He's barely lowered himself and Koroibete went upwards. Cry more.

@@bestinbusiness1 Nope they both bend down and Koroibete doesn’t go upwards until after contact.

@@bestinbusiness1 Cry more? mate the Aussies won that game and the overall series. Grow up you Flog

This is rugby not soccer.

Sam Warburton is actually a great pundit in my opinion, the way he explains complex things to casual viewers is much better than most pundits around - but I can't defend what he's saying in that red card incident.

Word. Those were my two major grievances, as well.

It should be said that American football is going through a similar problem trying to protect QBs and receivers. Except it's even worse there because the officiating is already terrible.

@@AllUpOns I very much agree around the QB, but less so around the receivers. Most of the time the receivers are are being covered at least fairly closely, so the players are more or less running in the same direction and are generally aware of what the other player is doing. I completely agree with the critique of our referees though. Those guys are basically blind.

It was 7 minutes, but yes that could well be included in a future vid

@@AndrewDavidForde i think the hit was 30 seconds in and the decision took quite a while, as i was there and it was one of the first tackles made

@@jamers505 he didn’t go off until the 6th minute

A Grammy is for music mate. An academy award, an Emmy or a Tony award are for acting.

@@wrightyy I stand corrected. My bad. Whatever it maybe, music video or acting in movies good acting tho.

I dunno if they would count it coz it's rugby leauge but I would tho

I've seen that one. It is worth a red card every day of the week, brutal

@@willjennings5252 The irony being that he was drinking with some of the Australian team later that night and they were re-enacting it for laughs.

@@frankw9619 ha ha ha I didn't know that. Sport should be like that though, all friends in the bar afterwards. You want to win, you do all you can but it's a game. A game to be played and enjoyed.

Ben Flower

Couldn't agree more, even my 11yr old son said WTF!!

There were 2 soccer dives in that tour. Both by France.

yea yellow card

not even a yellow card@@sebwalkervibes

Are you fucking serious. He took a shoulder hit straight into his face by a 100+kg man running at him at full speed. He is lucky to have survived that

Ryan offloads at the last second, Ewels is committed to tackling him, if he thought the ball was going out the back he never would've gone in that way. He was high all the time, and while there might be something to say of the difficulty of a 2nd row tackling a shorter man, he was tackling a fellow 2nd row and 100 percent had to go in lower. This is one of the most clear cut of 'tackling' reds, highlighted by the fact that there was not one dissenting voice from the England squad/management afterwards.

@@LFire12 that's fair - as I said I can see it both ways but not claiming it was unfair or incorrect

Yep, but it wasn’t as quickly as the Koroibete hit

@@AndrewDavidForde that koroibete hit shouldn't be a red card it should have been a yellow

@@cormacdoyle2433 wasn’t me who awarded the red card but under the laws it is a red

@@AndrewDavidForde still it was a bit soft easily along with the last ones the softest of the red cards

@@cormacdoyle2433 under the laws they’re still red cards

The thing is that every player drops into the tackle because if you don't you'll lose the contact. Tacklers have to expect this and adjust accordingly and if they don't it's the type of negligence that the game is trying to eradicate

that one got overturned on appeal, unsurprisingly.

For me it looks like blue jumps into white. White didn't even see him coming.

I would argue that by the letter of the law it wasn't even a penalty. Payne did not challenge Goode in the air; he ran forward trying to catch the ball and collided with Goode who had jumped and got to the ball fractionally earlier. There was no tackle.

@@christopherwilson3763 it doesn't matter that there wasn't a "tackle" he never made a fair contest fir the ball, and he took dangerous action that resulted on an injured player. Weather its red or yellow is a fair discussion but its easily a penalty.

@@charliemaney6695 I don't think the terms you are using were covered by the laws. There was an ammendment a couple of years after this incident that involved being in a realistic position to challenge for the ball, but Payne was sent off for tackling Goode in the air. The referee literally says it's a dangerous tackle when sending him off, so the fact that there was no tackle and just an accidental collision of players is exactly what does matter.

for most of us, it isn't, it was bound to happen the way he's been playing for England as of late

Shouldn't really be a sore subject. Blatant red, not much to argue with, and it was just one instance in the game

Under the current protocols, if you hit someone who is 6'8" in the head, especially late, no one should be surprised regarding the colour of the card...

Yep, don’t understand either

@@maelmao I don't think that matters any more. The criteria are, was he in a position to contest the ball (generally you're not if you don't jump and your opponent does, depending on timing, etc), and how does the opponent land. Therefore, even if Payne's eyes were in fact on the ball, it's just deemed reckless rather than foul play, but still worthy of a red card.

@@maelmao that doesn't come into it at all. He got nowhere near a realistic position to catch the ball so he wasn't competing for it. In that case he just straight took him out of the air rather than clash as they both went up for it.

I think it was because Goode's head hit the deck as a consequence of Payne's challenge. If there was no head impact, I would say that was a yellow. It doesn't matter how it happens, if you take someone over the horizontal it's your responsibility to make sure they land safely.

But but safety is an even more important factor.

Na saw johnny Cogger last about 10 seconds in a game. Ran on as a sub and flattened a winger on the other team as he was running onto the field lol

If you go through it then you have to come to a red card conclusion according to the laws - 1. the Ulster player was in no realistic position to catch the ball i.e. he hadn't made an attempt to jump to compete. This results in the Saracens player being taken out in the air - all this means that it's considered foul play. Intention does not come into it. It doesn't matter that his eyes were on the ball throughout, you have to jump to compete a high ball like that. 2. An act of foul play that results in a dangerous contact to the head with force is a red card. If you work through it all then it's a pretty simple decision for the referee.

Australia won that game so to say the ref had a vendetta against Australia is just objectively wrong

I think you need an HIA if you think both should be sent off 😂raising a knee on take off is how you are taught to take a high ball, I could understand if he kicked him like the last one but come on 😂

Raising a knee is not only allowed but encouraged often. Whether it should be is a different question.

@@harryayton2259 HIA?

@@asmodean26 head injury assessment, bud