Sir Arthur Higgins
Dick Tooth (41)
I would agree with this and how it would’ve handled it but at what point is it a penalty. Can’t stop clock forever or let him wait for ever and add time back. That was 45 seconds between penalties. Everyone watches a game and bemoans a goal kicker taking over a minute which takes more time than a kick for touch.Agree on the time wasting....however, if the ref thought that...and in the context of the game ...all he had to do was add the extra time allegedly wasted once lineout was in play....to give the ABs a scrum on the line with less than a minute in the game and Australia in front, was imho, the worst decision by a referee that I have ever witnessed in some 40 years. As Rennie said, he had no feel for the game. He should never ref anything except Subbies ever again, or the French equivalent of. In hindsight, not even Subbies!
Knowing the French, he will probably be in charge of next year's WC Final!
The chance for Australia to possibly win a major trophy, that it hasn't been close to winning for twenty years goes up in smoke due to the complete moronic referee, pedantic to the letter .....DISGRACEFUL.
He should be executed by guillotine......OK....OK... maybe not executed!
I wouldn’t have made that call but some of the outrage is ridiculous. He absolutely wasted time and that should be stamped out. Would prefer it had been done earlier in the game or the year but no one seems to be arguing that foley wasn’t wasting time just that he shouldn’t have been called out on it.
If you agree it should be called but only if called consistently - this isn’t the same as a ruck technique in the game not being policed at all. He has called out to him how many times? You can clearly he his Whistler when he says time on again. I think this was both a bad call and a fuck up by foley. The two aren’t mutually exclusive here.
As for foster….what a lemon of a bloke - rubbing it in after that win. Give me a spell. Guy will be out of a job by 2023 anyways I guess