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Everyone wants consistency - it will never truly happen until we remove the human element from refereeing and I'm not convinced people are willing to accept that. I want referees to identify mistakes that have occurred and not make them again - and when there is subjectivity around it...

Agree with all of that - but this can also result in only a penalty being issued. You don't need mitigating factors if they deem it be low danger. I'm not disagreeing either that other incidents in the last month have been adjudicated differently (although the only one I can think of is the...

Yeah mate this is it, and our main aim to upset anon nuffies on rugby forums And I'm ok with being wrong, in your opinion, if your opinion is you want to see cards instead of penalties for collisions where the 2 guys collide heads, after they practically walked into other off about 2 steps each

I also firmly believe that fans and commentators would be more upset if there was just a blanket ruling that any head contact attracted the same penalty of a red card - because (altogether now) not every head contact is the result of foul play

It doesn't take a physicist to know that a head clash that occurs from close range, at walking pace - is probably different to one where the players are 30m apart and sprint at each other

Before this gets out of hand. The Kerevi hit and this one are completely different incidents, in case that's what people are upset about. The only thing that was the same was the head on head.

I can only recall one other like this (Jordie Barrett) being a yellow card - but I could be wrong.

I can only recall one other like this (Jordie Barrett) being a yellow card - but I could be wrong.

Irrelevant - No player has faced judiciary for a hit like this in the ANS

Well it wouldn't be a change would it? The law hasn't changed, nor the HCP. It would be identifying they were applying a law wrong and making the right corrections. Lets be clear - this isn't a TMO thing, this is an on field referee decision as they refer it for the off field review when...

Hard disagree - We should expect referees to calibrate week to week so they don't continuously make the same errors, like players do. It would be dumb to identify a mistake and then continuously make the same error, on purpose, to save face. Just communicate that it was wrong and move on.

I'm completely fine with it being a PK only (low danger in HCP can be PK only without anything to mitigate) and assume that the referee's have made relevant adjustments from earlier games where they may have been over zealous with cards. But at this level they need to find ways to communicated...

Not what I'm debating. He can kick a ball far and probably why he was picked. Otherwise was bang average at best

Beyond his monster boot, what did he really do other than catch and pass the ball? “Very good” seems a stretch

Farrrk, close

Feel like this is an over hashed and somewhat redundant argument. Ireland/ Scotland/ Whoever haven't broken any rules, and I personally don't think it should be the big ugly asterisk over their success that people seem to make it out to be. Almost all teams benefit from foreign born players...

Maybe - but Namerican specifically called out the Kerevi sanctions.

Hence the efforts to police safer practices in contact areas. It's not farcical - doing nothing and accepting the outcomes for either the players, or accepting the death of the game - would be. Early '10s we saw lifting tackles cracked down on and now they rarely happen.

Look, I love Ballymore - but all of these solutions are clearly more difficult to implement than they are at Perry Park. Trains: Ballymore - Station upgrade, street footpath upgrades and still a 1.5km walk (or 2.5km from Exhibition Cross River Rail). Perry Park - no upgrades needed for Bowen...

To me this is best option though I guess that modern stadium or event space planning would probably dictate that we need multiple ways for people to leave the precinct, but beyond that I suppose the obvious reply to this is Brisbane isn't West London, and Ballymore isn't Twickenham. One of the...