{"id":313856,"date":"2025-11-28T07:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T07:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/313856\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T07:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T07:28:15","slug":"is-international-rugby-becoming-unwatchable-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/313856\/","title":{"rendered":"Is international rugby becoming unwatchable? \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image audio_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1739272379918-c03b2529-1643-4e02-ab77-51ef2d1ea4b6.jpeg\"\/>Officiating is arguably as hot a topic as it ever has been &#8211; and not in a good way<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ireland&#x2019;s Caelan Doris and Siya Kolisi of South Africa watch as referee Matthew Carley consults the TMO. Photograph: Gary Carr\/&#xA9;INPHO\" class=\"c-image b-it-lead-art__btn-full-screen-open\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SPM5TFTOBSRVOYYSD3L6IQ6HFY.jpg\"   width=\"1024\" height=\"656\"\/>Ireland\u2019s Caelan Doris and Siya Kolisi of South Africa watch as referee Matthew Carley consults the TMO. Photograph: Gary Carr\/\u00a9INPHO <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">There have been postmortems aplenty on the state of Irish rugby after the November window. But what of the international window as a whole. Officiating is arguably a hot a topic as it ever has been &#8211; and not in a good way. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Stylistically, law tweaks have more and more teams striving for efficiency and playing in similar styles, ones which are not always popular among the crowds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Whatever about results and Irish fortunes, as a spectacle, is international rugby still a good watch?<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Host Nathan Johns is joined by Irish Times ruby writer John O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Produced by John Casey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officiating is arguably as hot a topic as it ever has been &#8211; and not in a good&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,46102,177625,760,103300,85,12907],"class_list":{"0":"post-313856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ireland-rugby","11":"tag-november-internationals","12":"tag-rugby","13":"tag-six-nations","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-world-rugby"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313856","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=313856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}