the definitive adoption of the 20-minute red card postponed

Is the lobbying of opponents paying off? France (with a common position from the FFR, the LNR and Provale) and Ireland, the two most fierce opponents of the introduction of the twenty-minute red card, have, according to our information, been heard.

The World Rugby council, which brings together the members of the steering committee of the governing body of international rugby and all the member federations – they will vote on Thursday for the successor to the Englishman Bill Beaumont as president, the Frenchman Abdelatif Benazzi being in the running against the Australian Brett Robinson and the Italian Andrea Rinaldo – currently sitting in Dublin.

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The future of the 20-minute red card, tested during this November tour, is on the agenda. And, while we thought that its final application would be approved, the dissensions between the pro and the anti pushed World Rugby to postpone the final vote.

On Thursday, a simple intermediate vote will take place to find out whether the global test is continued or not. If the experiment is extended, its application will then be discussed again in May 2025. A postponement which already weakens the final adoption of this new regulation.