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Rugby Rules explained. Early point scoring was limited to the kicking of conversions. Under the rugby rules at the time, these could only be taken after the ball had successfully been grounded over the opponents line, which were called touchdowns, but no points were awarded for this in the first versions of the Rules of Rugby.
Added to this was the demands of the game itself where the 2 codes split and therefore need to adapt to differing styles of play. In recent years the union code has had huge changes to its rules to facilitate a more open running game whilst maintaing the ruck, lineout maul phases. There have also bee many changes to the rules of both code to bring about higher levels of safety as these 2 code stil use less body protection than similar sports and with higher demands on success being pushed on to players to win there have been some sad events within the game.
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TV ref makes calls more accurate and it does take a very long time to make a judgment.