No petting in the deep end

[hookender]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-9119117/Premiership-Rugby-bans-try-celebrations-ice-baths-bid-tackle-Covid-19.html

Also need to stop Finishers standing in the goal areas as well as water carriers touching their balls

[RogerE]

Will encourage the social distancing allowed by the catapillar

[Chunky24]

Should then reduce the use it call time to under 3 seconds which is the rfu face to face contact guidance (and enforce it!).

[hopwood]

You can scrum down together time after time.....but not celebrate a try?

 

[13thWarrior]

You can scrum down together time after time.....but not celebrate a try?

 

Yeah this is pretty dumb.

[baldpaul101]

You can scrum down together time after time.....but not celebrate a try?

I'm not a doctor but I can see some logic here. In the scrum only the front row & maybe second row will actually be breathing on each other. In a try celebration the whole team come in and hug and dance around.

Also scrums are an integral part of the game so the risk is acceptable. Try celebrations are not necessary for the rest of the game to take place so trying to reduce un-necessary risk makes some sense when you think about it.

There's also a bit of me that wants to return to the good old days of a calm manly handshake when a try's scored (although that would now have to be an elbow touch!)
 

[DGP Wasp]

There's also a bit of me that wants to return to the good old days of a calm manly handshake when a try's scored (although that would now have to be an elbow touch!)
 

+1.  A friendly, firm clout to the back of the head conveys the required level of appreciation without posing undue transmission risk.

Seriously though, if we get a positive test and have to review footage of the previous match to establish close contact, can do without having to isolate first team players simply because they got over-excited celebrating a try together with someone who went on to test positive.

[Shugs]

Yes, it's about reducing risk. Can you have a game without a scrum - no. Can you have one without the celebration shenanigans - yes. Personally I'd like to see the whooping and hollering when a scrum is won or the opposition makes a mistake quietly stamped out as well - maybe under the guise of emitting less particles into the air!

[mike909]

Personally I'd like to see the whooping and hollering when a scrum is won or the opposition makes a mistake quietly stamped out as well - maybe under the guise of emitting less particles into the air!

+1

Just getting silly too often. At least one ref reversed a penalty recently because of "head patting" - I know it's not like the old days - but I'm not sure I'd have wanted to pat The Judge's head after a penalty award......

[hookender]

Just seen that team reserves will be warming up in the defending end . Let’s hope they have been told to clear off when action gets to red zone.

One of the annoying things I noticed in a previous game was that the little cones had been left set out at an end we were defending . Would have been annoyed if a ball had bounced on one of them sending it neatly into an on rushing attackers hands.

[hookender]

COVID breaches to be looked at
https://www.skysports.com/rugby-union/news/12321/12182616/coronavirus-rfu-introduces-disciplinary-action-for-persistent-breaches-from-players-staff-or-clubs

[Chunky24]

If Eddie Jones ever tests positive then that's the end of prem rugby for a while with the number of grounds he gets to!