Jarrod Burton
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Apart from the Wallabies neglecting to turn up for a good part of the match and not deserving to win, I'm fairly unimpressed with the officials for this match.
Allowing the use of the home unions national flag (complete with sh**ty plastic shafts) as the AR flag is a very very poor look. The french (and english) media would go ballistic if the Wallaby, Silver fern or either of the national flags were used in either Aus or NZ. Should be completely neutral.
When NO wanted to have a look at a ruck entry where at first look the Blue player could have been in trouble, the replay was shown once then continued with other replays of other events. An independant TV official and feed must be provided and if a ref is asking for a replay, whatever the ground controller wants to show must be overridden. Following some other poor use of replays in other internationals lately, surely the IRB need to develop and enforce a policy on this.
The last minute was an absolute farce. Time is off for the scrum, then NO says time is OFF and the clock restarts, wasting 45 seconds while they play toss with the ball, leaving 15 secs out of 60. I think something similar happened in the 61st minute with time off and then it ran forward for 10 secs quickly then kept counting with time off
A couple of calls that had me puzzled were:
66th - FK against Gold for LO delay - being a bit of a jobsworth really
70th - Skelton gets in a bad position during a LO, but with the Lifters putting a player over the opposition's head, surely it is their responsibility to ensure that the player is brought to ground safely?
73rd - does NO call time off for the YC on the Blue line or just lets time run? I always call time off for the actual issuing of a card.
I don't think NO looked quite as flat and in poor form as last week, but he didn't look that comfortable.
Lets be fair, the Wallabies played like crap for a good part of the match and the French deserved the win.
Allowing the use of the home unions national flag (complete with sh**ty plastic shafts) as the AR flag is a very very poor look. The french (and english) media would go ballistic if the Wallaby, Silver fern or either of the national flags were used in either Aus or NZ. Should be completely neutral.
When NO wanted to have a look at a ruck entry where at first look the Blue player could have been in trouble, the replay was shown once then continued with other replays of other events. An independant TV official and feed must be provided and if a ref is asking for a replay, whatever the ground controller wants to show must be overridden. Following some other poor use of replays in other internationals lately, surely the IRB need to develop and enforce a policy on this.
The last minute was an absolute farce. Time is off for the scrum, then NO says time is OFF and the clock restarts, wasting 45 seconds while they play toss with the ball, leaving 15 secs out of 60. I think something similar happened in the 61st minute with time off and then it ran forward for 10 secs quickly then kept counting with time off
A couple of calls that had me puzzled were:
66th - FK against Gold for LO delay - being a bit of a jobsworth really
70th - Skelton gets in a bad position during a LO, but with the Lifters putting a player over the opposition's head, surely it is their responsibility to ensure that the player is brought to ground safely?
73rd - does NO call time off for the YC on the Blue line or just lets time run? I always call time off for the actual issuing of a card.
I don't think NO looked quite as flat and in poor form as last week, but he didn't look that comfortable.
Lets be fair, the Wallabies played like crap for a good part of the match and the French deserved the win.
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