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Brendan Gallagher

No time to go soft on neck roll

No time

Why isn’t the neck roll an automatic yellow card anymore? In fact, why isn’t the neck roll refereed much anymore full stop?
I sat up and applauded last Sunday when Luke Pearce, below, probably the best referee out there now Wayne Barnes has retired, pinged Ireland three times against Italy for neck rolls. They are dangerous, cynical and need to be eliminated.

And the thing about a neck roll is that they are always deliberate, you can’t accidentally neck roll an opponent, it requires an acquired judo technique, serious intent, and a bad attitude.
So why aren’t they yellow? Players are automa...

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