Talk:Penalty (rugby)

Differential penalty

Having watched rugby league games before, I've never seen differential penalties and I've only just heard of them. Do they even happen at all? Scott Gall 00:52, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

One was awarded in yesterday's Challenge Cup semi-final between Wigan Warriors and Catalan Dragons - Wigan were trying to shove the Catalan scrum off the ball, but pushed before the ball was put into the scrum. Differential penalties are awarded for technical infringements (such as this early shove) rather than malicious/dangerous/intentional foul play, and as such bear comparison to rugby union's free kick (though the latter can be awarded for a much greater range of offences). Hope this helps. --PabloVergos 12:45, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Rugby" is two separate sports, why does one article cover both? Why put soccer or hockey in as well? There's already an article for union, this one can be the league version (except the subject hardly requires a separate article, let alone two) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.45.205.105 (talk) 07:33, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]