Watch every game of the 2025 British & Irish Lions Tour live and on-demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nThe resulting play ended in a scrum to Italy, with the hosts backing their scrum to deliver a result.<\/p>\n
As it turned out, the play was insignificant as the Springboks were free kicked from the scrum and Italy were able to take a quick tap on halfway.<\/p>\n
But, World Rugby has moved swiftly to ensure the play does not happen again after the visitors lodged a complaint.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe actions seen in this example show an intentional violation of the kick-off and restart laws,\u201d their statement said.<\/p>\n
\u201cLaws 12.5 and 12.6 set out the sanctions where the ball unintentionally fails to go 10m or a player overruns their teammate at the kick-off\/restart. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, if match officials believe this is done deliberately, then Law 9.7a should be applied.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was one of several unique tactics adopted by coach Rassie Erasmus as the mad scientist of Rugby showed his knowledge of the laws.<\/p>\n
On multiple occasions, South Africa would manufacture a lineout pod from open play, drawing in the Italian defence before spreading the ball wide into space.<\/p>\n
The Springboks now turn their focus towards Georgia in Mbombela on Saturday in a one-off Test.<\/p>\n
Captain and flanker Siya Kolisi will make his first appearance of the season, with Erasmus delighted to have the influential leader back.<\/p>\n
“We wanted to make sure that Siya is 100 percent fit before selecting him, so it is great to have him back in the squad,\u201d Erasmus said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World Rugby has confirmed the Springboks should\u2019ve been penalised after their deliberate short kick-off. The Springboks deployed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,2995],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-springboks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}