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Ireland were awarded kickable penalties because they put England under pressure with good attacking play. It was entertaining and exciting to watch. Your comparison with football is ridiculous.

so you just end up with a tiresome game full of minor infringements. As I said, it is a balance... and the result on Sunday was the right one.

It is a balance though... if you don't penalise foul play with a decent points scoring opportunity, then you will encourage teams to do it even more. If you try and counterbalance it with more yellow cards/sin-binning that would get ridiculous and unsafe in the case of forwards. Ireland were...