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Around the 78m/79m mark, Argentinian bc goes to ground near his own try line, is quickly rucked over by 3 baa-baas, possibly TWOL only, then he quickly gets up with ball in hand, and play on says John Lacey! (Excellent game I thought btw). Was the he unsighted or did he call it player not held?

Here's a pic from the 2017 law book to back that up: The laws don't explicitly say it's the hindmost foot of a player on their feet at that particular point in the laws, but a player on the ground is not a participant in the ruck. Participants in a ruck must be on their feet.

Did anyone else notice in the WAL v SA match that TWOLs were reffed the exact same way as rucks? At least once the ref said "he'd lifted it" to justify that the rushing defence wasn't offside at a TWOL.

There it is! Thank you mjmg, and Rich_NL :) I don't think the TMO wasn't shown this one at the time (assuming the live stream is what the TMO is seeing). From what I can see, the ball definitely touches green 15's hand, and given that green 15 had a lot of forward momentum it's hard to...

Today's story from BBC Sport: And by some weird, almost spooky coincidence, England need both Wales and Ireland to slip up this weekend to claim 2nd place. Well how about that?!? Eddie Jones Mind-Manipulation-o-Matic (All just my 2p worth, of course.)

Wales played abysmally, and Australia played really well - no complaints about the scoreline. There were some odd things going on though I felt... there was one conspicuous "off the feet" at the breakdown (plane landing) which wasn't called, and two collapsed mauls which were not called. And...

(From tonight's Pro12 match TRE v CAR) Green kick ahead. Blue player #1 attempts to catch ball but it bobbles. He makes a second abortive but fails to catch it. Blue player #2, ahead of blue #1, now catches the ball. Ref doesn't see it and plays on until the next stoppage, when he notices...

Ball carrier goes to ground, tackled. Tackler does not release player, player does not release ball. Who gets pinged?

AFAIR, there were two instances last weekend of a breakaway being called back for a knock-on when it shouldn't have been. One came off the forehead, another off the chest (and no arm involved). One was definitely Irish, possibly both? What does the team think - bad calls by the ref? There was...

I can't find any better video - only some stills :sad: There's also his tip tackle on Tom James, in which he landed him flat on his back (from a height). No on-field or off-field call for that one - thought it was also "dangerous" if landed on back? :confused: I was beginning to think this was...

Watching the replays again just now, I noticed that there's no potential for hyperflexion in Clerc's case, because when he lands on the ground his head, neck, and shoulders are all in a fairly normal alignment, and his chin doesn't get pushed in towards his chest at all. The flexion is all in...

Yes, that's true, AAC's head snaps on impact - but what I was talking about was the bit after he hits the ground, shoulder/head first. His chin then gets pushed right into his chest as far as it will go. Here it is from several different angles: Luckily Kahui didn't land smack bang on top of...

Glad we could find common ground on that one! :hap: Are you sure about that? His neck looks like it got flexed to the maximum extension by the tackle - his chin was pushed right into his chest by the end of the tackle - and he had the weight and momentum of #13 on top of him too (though he...

Thanks Ian, appreciated. Unfortunately that doesn't clarify things for me! :smile: Robert Burns was saying that he didn't think Tom Palmer's tackle on Dan Lydiate was a tip tackle because he was driving him backwards. To my view, TP was pretty much stationary when he tackled DL, having come...