Differential penalty.

[Jazza]

I may sound dumb, but what is a differential penalty? I have never heard of it until commentators, especially Rabbits have spoken about it this year.

 

[Bazzinator]

its a penalty like a scrum penalty where you can't take a shot at goal. not sure of other differential penalties but know a scrum penalty is differential

the ref waves his arm pointing towards the team that the penalty is for to indicate that it is a differential penalty

 

[happy_tiger]

Differential penalties are penalties that revolve around scrums
Things that you never see anymore like second row feeds , Foot across the tunnel . collapsing the scrum , breaking too early from scrum offside from the scrum to name a few . You will see the referees move his arm up and down when penalty is awarded .
The only difference between this and a normal penlty is the the team that recieves the penalty can not take a shot for penalty goal . As you can imagine they happen rarely in the modern game

 

[cunno]

Differential penalties are penalties that revolve around scrums
Things that you never see anymore like second row feeds , Foot across the tunnel . collapsing the scrum , breaking too early from scrum offside from the scrum to name a few . You will see the referees move his arm up and down when penalty is awarded .
The only difference between this and a normal penlty is the the team that recieves the penalty can not take a shot for penalty goal . As you can imagine they happen rarely in the modern game

Yes and if I remember correctly this type of penalty was brought in because teams were winning games by kicking a penalty goal from a scrum penalty and it used to be said that the ref could penalise for any number of things in a scrum so it was unfair for a team to win a game (or lose one for that matter) based on a scrum penalty which was a lottery and put a lot of pressure on refs. Plus it was before video refs were brought in.

 

[JRD]

When was the last time there was a penalty in a scrum for a loose arm? About early 90's I would say.

 

[innsaneink]

Differential penalties are penalties that revolve around scrums
Things that you never see anymore like second row feeds , Foot across the tunnel . collapsing the scrum , breaking too early from scrum offside from the scrum to name a few . You will see the referees move his arm up and down when penalty is awarded .
The only difference between this and a normal penlty is the the team that recieves the penalty can not take a shot for penalty goal . As you can imagine they happen rarely in the modern game

Yes and if I remember correctly this type of penalty was brought in because teams were winning games by kicking a penalty goal from a scrum penalty and it used to be said that the ref could penalise for any number of things in a scrum so it was unfair for a team to win a game (or lose one for that matter) based on a scrum penalty which was a lottery and put a lot of pressure on refs. Plus it was before video refs were brought in.

It was soooo frustrating to lose a game to a scrum penalty, refs had a box full to choose from, screwing the scrum, not packing square, 2nd row feed, loose arm, feet across, collapsing the scrum…it was terrible

 

[tiger4ever]

Differential penalties are penalties that revolve around scrums
Things that you never see anymore like second row feeds , Foot across the tunnel . collapsing the scrum , breaking too early from scrum offside from the scrum to name a few . You will see the referees move his arm up and down when penalty is awarded .
The only difference between this and a normal penlty is the the team that recieves the penalty can not take a shot for penalty goal . As you can imagine they happen rarely in the modern game

Yes and if I remember correctly this type of penalty was brought in because teams were winning games by kicking a penalty goal from a scrum penalty and it used to be said that the ref could penalise for any number of things in a scrum so it was unfair for a team to win a game (or lose one for that matter) based on a scrum penalty which was a lottery and put a lot of pressure on refs. Plus it was before video refs were brought in.

It was soooo frustrating to lose a game to a scrum penalty, refs had a box full to choose from, screwing the scrum, not packing square, 2nd row feed, loose arm, feet across, collapsing the scrum…it was terrible

Hartley loved the scrum penaltys…..the consistency with rulings back then they would be fired if it happened today

 

[cunno]

When was the last time there was a penalty in a scrum for a loose arm? About early 90's I would say.

And that loose arm was probably a punch hold on wrong era!!