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Same here. For Super Rugby and all test matches, the TMO booth has access to all camera feeds at the ground, and all of the cameras video streams are digitally recorded to their own channels and synced with each other. The technical assistant can play back anything the TMO wants to see. The...

Perfect example in tonight's Crusaders v Blues match... Fast forward to 4:05 Foul play in the lead-up to the Leicester Fainga'anuku try. Referee takes one look from one angle - decides that the shoulder to head contact meets the minimum threashhold for at least a YC. He bins the player, asks...

Perhaps, but it would only look feeble to those who did not understand. The whole point of the proposal was to speed up the game, and put an end to the protracted length of time spent with all the players standing around while the refeeree and two ARs are watching endless replays trying to make...

100% ....even better... I don't know how old you are, but there are quite a number of us here who were refereeing at a time when there were sin-bins and sendings off, but there were no coloured cards - we used to simply point to the dead ball line for a sin bin (because that is where a sin...

Fine. Its just a matter of details... the referee would carry only one card, the yellow one. The remaining decision making is done by the TMO

Unfortunately Simon, WR has made a rod for their own back here. Red Cards have become a lottery, a fact that has never been more plainly demonstrated than by the ludicrous Freddie Steward RC. What I would rather see in elite matches (i.e. those with a TMO) is NO red cards on the field. The...

This is something for which I have advocated for a long time... Law 9 needs to be divided into sections that reflect three different types of foul play... Cynical; Careless/Reckless; Intentionally Dangerous. Yellow Card for acts of foul play that are Cynical... intentional technical...

There is this thing called "Slow Motion Intentionality Bias". When you are watching something being replayed in slow motion, your brain is still funtioning in real time and this leads to the perception that reaction time is longer than it really is. Back in 2016, I wrote a short post linking to...

The fact that Allen dropped the high ball, fumbled it forwards and then fell to his knee after Tuilagi had already lined up low to take him around the waist might have had something to do with it. As for Farrell, I don't know how he keeps getting away with little or no punishment for his...

Chrissakes, that would have been a nightmare back in the day. There were some sets of goalposts in the 1960's and 1970's, especially in schools, where the posts only protruded about a yard above the crossbar!

Nope. Calling numbers here doesn't happen at any level. I watched a lot of the NPC this year, but I do not recall any "numbers: FKs In such a case, where the team is being wankers with number calling, like your case, or making any call I think is made with intent to mislead the opposition...

Oh, newsflash! A referee made an error five years ago...

You do realise that this is a 2017 article, and those laws no longer apply?

You mean like this?

Yes, that's fine for some forms of try scoring, what about when its a kick ahead and the player forces a loose ball in-goal? Often the ball ends up bouncing away or getting kicked away. That might be OK in a stadium where there are advertising hoardings, but what about in the weeds where you can...

"Penalty kicks (60-seconds)/conversions (90-seconds) - make conversions 60 seconds too" Disagree with this one. For a PK the clock starts when the kicker has the ball already in their hands has either indicated to kick at goal or the kicking tee arrives The ball is very often near the play...

I agree that he should have blown time off to check with the TMO, but there is still no excuse for Foley's behaviour. There have been arguments that Raynal's decision to award NZ a scrum at the end was not in the spirit of the game, but what Foley did isn't either. He willfully disregarded a...

All those reports come from Australian news sources, and their source is Dave Rennie saying what he claims he was told... i.o.w. hearsay I will take notice when this information comes directly from WR themselves. Also, this has come to light today. Foley may well have instigated the the...

Yes, he was... Law 6 THE WHISTLE 8. The referee carries a whistle and blows it: b. To stop play. The referee has the power to stop play at any time.

To those Aussie commentators (Horan, Kearns, Martin et al) claiming they have never, ever in their careers previously seen a turnover of possession awarded by a referee for delaying the game, I'm just going to go right ahead and call BS on that! They may not have seen this precise scenario...