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"It [the Thomond Park Test] was our first game for some months and it was our first taste of the experimental law variations," said the Canada coach, Kieran Crowley, whose 22 includes five players from England's National League One.
Gloucester's director of rugby, Dean Ryan, could not stop grinning, despite a dour 80 minutes which emphasised again how the experimental law variations are stifling initiative and counter-attacking play.
The rugby was as gripping as it could possibly be, confirmation that the experimental law variations were an act of folly and that rugby can mend itself pretty quickly.
When World Rugby announced last year the current experimental law variations, which are being trialled throughout the world in club and international tournaments, it stated that the laws must allow for a fair contest for possession, especially "in the contact area, in general play and when play is restarted at scrums, lineouts and kick-offs".
Heineken Cup one to watch: Lesley Vainikolo (Gloucester) Cut adrift by Martin Johnson and England, Gloucester's enormous former rugby league wing has adapted to the experimental law variations and rediscovered enough of his handling and kicking skills to be Biarritz's worst nightmare on Saturday.
Admittedly it does not have much to beat, but the game in England needs a rousing send-off to a season that had an abject start at both club and country levels, not helped by an insidious mix of experimental law variations and a refereeing crackdown at the breakdown.
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Maroni made further headlines when he announced that a limited number of Italian troops would be deployed in Italian cities as a part of an experimental law-and-order measure.
The IRB is currently trialling the so-called Stellenbosch Experimental Laws, which put a premium on more attacking play.
The physicist James Clerk Maxwell in the 19th century based his description of electromagnetic fields on these four equations, which express experimental laws.
Australian rugby union chief who warned of a split between northern and southern hemispheres over the north's humming and hawing about those funny new experimental laws the south have been trialling.
The kinetic theory explained known experimental laws and predicted new ones.
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