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    Slim margins

    What I feel WR have overlooked is the old adage, "Justice must not only be done, but must also be seen to be done."
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    SH Tackled After Maul - Eng v Arg

    Maybe because a player bound into a maul is not "a player who is offside at a maul"?
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    Slim margins

    And OF managed to avoid getting carded the entire RWC. Maybe they do have an impact after all 🤷‍♀️
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    Ciaran Parker - 5 Weeks for Head Contact

    Ciaran Parker gets 5 weeks for head contact. Isn't this almost the exact same situation as Owen Farrell before the RWC, where OF got 4 weeks? https://www.ultimaterugby.com/news/united-rugby-championship-disciplinary-decision---ciaran-parker/653127
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    Slim margins

    For that one, I think we need a new category of intent, somewhere between "accidental" and "deliberate"...
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    SH Tackled After Maul - Eng v Arg

    So do you think NB got confused, and thought the BC was the Arg player at the back of the maul, rather than the SH... and that the Eng player was bound on the whole time, making it a same-maul situation? If so, that should be scrum Eng, because Arg took the ball in to the maul which became...
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    SH Tackled After Maul - Eng v Arg

    71st mimute of the game. Arg SH receives the ball from the base of the maul and moves away, quickly followed by Eng forward who was part of the maul, who wraps him up. Both go to ground, with Eng player on wrong side of the tackle, killing the ball. I was expecting PK to Arg but Nick Berry...
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    Goal kicking

    Paul Thorburn's record kick was 64.2m, see my earlier post #11. Also according to Wikipedia, penalties have been worth three points since 1891 (they previously had been worth two points).
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    Fdk, deliberate pass into an opponent (?)

    In this case, Ramos was stock still when Kolbe took off like a rocket. Kolbe had clearly taken a number of strides before Ramos moved an inch. Shame the video isn't available 😕
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    Fdk, deliberate pass into an opponent (?)

    It was in the video I shared of the "French Perspective", but sadly now taken down due to a copyright claim by WR. Thanks, Bill 😕 The charge down looked about 8 or 10 steps ahead of any movement by Ramos tbf.
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    Goal kicking

    In terms of range, players have been kicking long goals for over 30 years now. According to The Font of All Truth (Wikipedia), Paul Thorburn kicked the record international goal at 70 yards 8 and a half inches (64.2m in new money) against Scotland in 1987. And didn't France have a massive cannon...
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    FRA v SA - A French Perspective

    No agenda at all... I'm a bit amazed by the one-sidedness of the video tbh, some of its claims are clearly wrong and others marginal at best. Some seem to have more merit than others. But obviously there were calls that went against SA too, they just don't show them. Does look like some head...
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    FRA v SA - A French Perspective

    Plenty to talk about here, some of these are just plain wrong like supposed "offside" by Jessie Kriel when there was no ruck.
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    Fdk, deliberate pass into an opponent (?)

    On the Irish TV feed the commentators were clear it would have been a very different trajectory to get the ball to Pollard. Dick move by FdK to try and milk the PK 🤣
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    Time Off For Scrum Collapse

    Not sure which incident you're referring to... Did the offside player intentionally play the ball?
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