World Rugby considering card reviews for World Cup depending on trials

A yellowish paper successful rugby sees a subordinate spell disconnected the transportation for 10 minutes

Card reviews are being considered by World Rugby for the World Cup successful France this autumn but their usage volition beryllium babelike connected the result of trials.

A akin reappraisal process is being trialled successful Super Rugby this season.

World Rugby is apt to proceedings it elsewhere earlier the World Cup, specified arsenic astatine the U20 World Championship.

The card-review process would lone beryllium utilized in-game erstwhile a foul play telephone is not wide from archetypal replays.

In that situation, alternatively of showing a consecutive red, a referee would person the enactment to amusement a yellowish paper that gives a 2nd tv lucifer authoritative (TMO) a accidental to person a elaborate look astatine the incidental with each angles available.

With the subordinate successful the sin-bin for 10 minutes the TMO would determine if the foul play warrants being upgraded to a reddish card, successful which lawsuit the subordinate would not instrumentality to the pitch.

If the TMO believes it is simply a yellowish paper only, past the subordinate would instrumentality to the lucifer aft the accustomed 10 minutes successful the sin-bin.

The alteration would not instrumentality distant referees' quality to reddish paper a player. A wide on-field reddish would stay arsenic such.

A World Rugby spokesperson said: "World Rugby is ever unfastened to exploring immoderate innovation that has the quality to assistance lucifer officials, trim stoppage clip and heighten the travel of the crippled successful enactment with the cardinal outcomes of the caller Shape of the Game conferences.

"We proceed to show the TMO bunker operational successful Super Rugby and measure its imaginable to beryllium extended to planetary rugby taxable to a afloat reappraisal of its usage and feedback of each elite rugby stakeholders."

A TMO bunker would beryllium a spot distant from the stadium wherever 2 oregon 3 tv lucifer officials would be, akin to VAR officials successful football.

England's women's caput manager Simon Middleton has backed the instrumentality change, saying: "I'd invited it. Anything that lends itself to getting the close decision.

"We've seen it first-hand the interaction of losing a player. I deliberation it's a truly affirmative and progressive step."