{"id":3022,"date":"2014-10-31T23:29:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T22:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/?p=3022"},"modified":"2014-10-31T23:29:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T22:29:32","slug":"anyone-endangering-players-head-deserves-long-well-advertised-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/anyone-endangering-players-head-deserves-long-well-advertised-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone endangering a player\u2019s head deserves a long and well-advertised ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/the-irish-times.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/the-irish-times.jpg\" alt=\"the irish times\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/the-irish-times.jpg 640w, https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/the-irish-times-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI notice Law 10.4 (c) is back in the picture where a player must not kick an opponent. It\u2019s not the first time a secondrow got his timing wrong but what Toulon lock, Romain Taofifenua, did to Ulster\u2019s Stuart Olding needs deeper analysis.<br \/>\nThe laws centring on the breakdown are often misinterpreted by a packed stadium as fans, in many cases, are not up to speed with the exact letter of the law. Cast your mind back to your last sighting of Richie McCaw, the greatest proponent of the breakdown, and ask yourself how often have you screamed at his actions before becoming perplexed at the referee\u2019s reaction? Why the disjoint? A lack of knowledge?&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. see more at :- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/rugby\/anyone-endangering-a-player-s-head-deserves-a-long-and-well-advertised-ban-1.1982368\">http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/rugby\/anyone-endangering-a-player-s-head-deserves-a-long-and-well-advertised-ban-1.1982368<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I notice Law 10.4 (c) is back in the picture where a player must not kick an opponent. It\u2019s not the first time a secondrow got his timing wrong but what Toulon lock, Romain Taofifenua, did to Ulster\u2019s Stuart Olding needs deeper analysis. The laws centring on the breakdown are often misinterpreted by a packed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1836],"tags":[1459,1462,1460,207,45,1461],"class_list":["post-3022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","tag-anyone","tag-ban","tag-endangering","tag-head","tag-players","tag-well-advertised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3024,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions\/3024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}