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John Solomon (38)
Agreed. Which is why it should have been ruled accidental offside, and a scrum. If even by slow motion you cannot determine it a 100%, how the hell was the player supposed to know, at full speed, in the heat of the moment, who it last touched? At full speed, you can fully see why the Scot thought it came off an Aussie.
How Craig Joubert made the call with 100% certainty only he will know.
He didn't make it with 100% certainty - never is.
He made a judgement call based on what he saw - and given we cant agree with the benefit of repeated slow motion analysis then it definitely wasn't a howler.
It could have gone either way - and thank Christ it went ours!!
There have certainly been many worse decisions (or non decisions) that have decided the outcomes of a game, and many times we have lost in similar circumstances. And there will be again.
Time to move on and look at the more important things that made the game as close as it was.