This 12 months’s Six Nations will undertake the 20-minute pink playing cards that have been trialled throughout the autumn.
For the primary time within the Championship, gamers despatched off for technical offences will be changed by a team-mate after 20 minutes have elapsed in an initiative design to punish gamers and never groups.
Nevertheless, referees can nonetheless award full and everlasting pink playing cards for deliberate and harmful acts of foul play.
After its success debut in the course of the Autumn Nations Sequence, referees will proceed to clarify any necessary choices inside video games to spectators via a microphone.
To hurry up the sport, kickers have 60 seconds after a strive has been scored to take conversions, whereas scrums and line-outs should be fashioned inside 30 seconds.
A world regulation trial designed to guard scrum-halves on the base of rucks, mauls and scrums may even come into impact for the Six Nations.
The Six Nations begins with Wales’ journey to France on Friday, January 31. Scotland host Italy and England journey to Eire on the next day.
