Boks and All Blacks decline ref-meeting opportunity due to new protocols
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World Rugby’s latest protocols, strictly limiting the amount of feedback to officials, as well as changing the rules about engaging with them, have left both the Boks and All Blacks in a strange position.
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What happened
World Rugby’s latest protocols, strictly limiting the amount of feedback to officials, as well as changing the rules about engaging with them, have left both the Boks and All Blacks in a strange position.
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Common ground
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