Six Nations introduce major rule change after string of huge games controversially affected by decisions

SIX NATIONS chiefs person announced a immense caller regularisation alteration aft a palmy trial.

For the archetypal clip successful the tournament's history, 20-minute reddish cards volition beryllium successful place.

The rule change has been introduced to "punish the subordinate and not the team".

Sides volition beryllium capable to regenerate a subordinate sent disconnected for a method offence with a team-mate aft 20 minutes.

The referee is inactive capable to crockery retired a imperishable reddish paper for "deliberate and unsafe acts of foul play".

This regularisation alteration comes successful aft it was trialled astatine the Autumn Nations Cup and Under-20s Championships.

The spectacle successful caller finals similar the 2023 World Cup and past year's Premiership showpiece were damaged by sending offs.

Six Nations main Julie Paterson said: "Across the game, everyone is moving unneurotic to guarantee we are exploring caller and innovative ways to marque the crippled arsenic harmless arsenic possible, alongside ambitions to heighten the spectacle for fans, and the acquisition for players."

The impermanent red cards are not the lone regularisation tweak to the game, with attempts made to velocity up the game.

Kickers present person conscionable a infinitesimal aft a effort to instrumentality the resulting conversion.

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Scrums and line-outs indispensable beryllium acceptable to spell wrong 30 seconds.

To support scrum-halves astatine the bottommost of rucks, throws that bash not spell consecutive erstwhile the line-out is uncontested volition beryllium allowed.

The Six Nations kicks-off connected January 31 arsenic France instrumentality connected Wales successful Paris.