Dan speaks to RFU national panel referee Adam Wookey about age grade tackle height changes, ball carrier height laws plus the new 50:22 and drop outs instead of 5m scrums being trialled at international rugby.

They discuss:

• How to referee the tackle height
• What does the ball carrier height into contact mean
• What do both look like
• Why a community referee has one shot, so best ways to deal with that
• How to referee this area sympathetically but firmly
• What are the new laws around the 50:22 kick and how referee that
• What are the new laws around the ball being held up over the line
• How both might allow the game to work more effectively

Links to the Laws
From The Rugby Paper on 50:22 and 5m scrums
From the RFU on tackle height and the ball carrier dip experiment