Rugby World Cup to use Hawk-Eye

World Rugby Chief Executive Brett Gosper says the organisation is focussed on ensuring players are offered the best care and are fully protected from the dangers of not treating head injuries in the correct way following a series of high profile incidents in recent months.

World Cup bosses announced on Tuesday that all but 200,000 of the 2.4million tickets have been sold, a month out from the tournament kick-off.

While protocol will be unchanged relating to questions that the referee asks of the TMO, enhanced technology will see access to simultaneous multiple-angle replays in real-time and slow motion, along with a zoom facility.

Rugby World Cup 2015 managing director Stephen Brown also confirmed that national anthems will be performed by choirs, rather than solo artists.

If World Rugby wanted a tournament with a proper draw, it could assign numbered teams to hotels, training fields and match venues and make the draw at the start of the World Cup year.

Due to the commercial success of the 2015 Rugby World Cup, coupled with the previous edition in New Zealand in 2011, World Rugby are able to invest more than £340 million ($534 million/€483 million) in developing rugby from grassroots level across 120 nations in all continents.

“The technology will play a crucial role in allowing medical teams to assess potential injuries and react accordingly”.

Hawk-Eye is already used in a number of sports including cricket, tennis, athletics, horse racing and football.

The technology works by recording all broadcast angles in real time and making the footage available immediately to help officials, medical staff and coaches.

England centre Jonathan Joseph has claimed that whoever progresses beyond Pool A at the Rugby World Cup will likely make it all the way to the final.

“Hugo has earned the right to be part of such an awesome experience as a home Rugby World Cup and to be honest I am jealous”, Moody said.

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