I look forward to the same leniency being applied to Australia throughout the RWC.ScoBar gets no further sanction ! clear to play with immediate effect.
What's the bet there's a few trying to give payback to the Aus judiciary that let Farrell off, to show Australians how serious they are about foul play.I look forward to the same leniency being applied to Australia throughout the RWC.
Vermeulen did it as well, right at the start of the game when he was on the wrong side of the ruck. And escaped any penalty for it.But it was blasphemy to suggest Marx did that, apparently.
He made a huge error for mine early. When Petaia looks to offload the Georgian 7 makes a play at the ball to try and intercept, he fails do do so and knocks it backwards so that’s okay.Was absolutely refreshing to have Luke Pearce ref this morning. Absolutely night and day compared to Jayco and the usual Kiwif Refs we get.
My only criticism was he held the scrum too long before the engage order. Both sets were quite disciplined about waiting for the engage, but I thought he was tempting fate with his slow delivery.Was absolutely refreshing to have Luke Pearce ref this morning. Absolutely night and day compared to Jayco and the usual Kiwif Refs we get.
I will prepare you to be highly diappointed by the end of the tournament appointments as Jaco is rated Top 3 and Pearce was lucky to make the RWC after some poor performances. I will be surprised if Pearce earns greater respect for that game given that it was not a close game.Was absolutely refreshing to have Luke Pearce ref this morning. Absolutely night and day compared to Jayco and the usual Kiwif Refs we get.
I was re-watching Will Jordan's Yellow card. I'm pretty sure he would have caught that ball (he was all eyes for it, arms up for where the ball is coming down) if Ramos hadn't jumped up into the space. So I guess my question is, have we skewed the game so that the jumping player always has the right. Ramos is equally jumping up and into Jordan so he has no eyes for his safety. Jordan wasn't trying to tackle him in the air, so it wasn't foul play in that sense.
I'm not disputing the Yellow. It is what it is by the way these things are judged. Just puts things in an interesting place if you don't choose to jump as a player.
But the Georgian 8 clearly plays at the ball and slaps it dead with no intention of trying to catch the ball. It should have been at least a penalty and potentially a penalty try and yellow card
For mine it was intentional. There was nobody behind him, he wanted to stop the try being scored and didn’t want to get trapped in goal with the ball as it was carried back although we ended up with a 5 meter scrum so the same result.I thought that at the time too. I haven't rewatched it yet but my only thought as to why you wouldn't look at it further was that the ball was a fair way from the dead ball line and it's reasonable for the Georgian player to tap it backwards to try and keep it away from the Australian player in an attempt to regather it themselves.
Is it considered that the ball going dead was a byproduct of the Georgian player tapping it back and not the Georgian player deliberately tapping the ball out of play?
I think it's reckless.
He's late to the contest and created a dangerous situation for the player that did arrive first and catch the ball.
I think the refereeing of high ball contests is good. It favours the player who arrives first and gives them some protection under the laws. We see a lot fewer dangerous collisions as a result of the harshness on the player arriving late.
I thought refs were becoming more consistent with the foul play framework they have - tough though it may be. The issue right now is how they seem to be blatantly ignoring head contact on random occasions.You will never get consistency with different referees & TMOs but what we can do and should do is have the same citing commissioner and judicial panel each time.