: Sat Oct 03, 2009 12:55 pm
Red Red Robin wrote:
That was probably why the southern hemisphere nations wanted the ELV's brought in but were outvoted by the northern hemisphere nations.
The ELVs resulted in more kicking (most of it aimless) and more stoppages, ironic given than many on here declared it trying to be more like RL. So make you own conclusions about that.
Argentina were against the ELVs, RSA did not mind whether they used ELVs or or the previous set of rules as long as they had a consistent ruleset, AUs. and NZ only wanted certain rules. NH hemisphere Unions voted for the the ELVs (particularly England and France) just not the same same ones that Aus. and NZ.
The ELVs were thrown out because there was little evidence they improved anything, unless you consider defending team regularly running back 10m due to the large number of short arm penalties.