During the 6 nations 2025 tournament, the 20 -minute red card is set up, explanations.
New test for the 20 -minute red card. During this 6 nations 2025 tournament, referees will be able to use this new tool after long discussions and some changes on this rule for several months. This new rule was tested during the fall tour after numerous challenges of several nations such as France and a large part of the northern hemisphere.
Initially, the 20 -minute red card allowed a team to replace a player who received a red card after twenty minutes spent 14. In the fall tests, the referees could always distribute permanent red cards (without Possibility to replace the excluded player) for deliberate and dangerous unfair games, but they had the possibility of giving a temporary red card of 20 minutes when it comes to technical faults. “”This will concern a unfair act of play which is neither deliberate nor intentional, explained the press release. In these circumstances, the player will be withdrawn from the field for the rest of the match, the faulty team that can replace him after 20 minutes with one of the replacements available to bring the team to 15 players ” explains World Rugby.
If we add this new rule with the introduction of the bunker (device where an arbitrator-video cut off from the world decides to transform a yellow card into red card), confusion is at its climax. Maybe that the rule is not yet present in Top 14 or in the European Rugby Cup.