would it be completely out of order to invite the kicker to take it again?
Hi Dickie,
I did this once in my second season of refereeing and raised it at Society meeting where I was informed by senior referees that all though my decision was logical and equitable it was incorrect.
I was asked on Friday night to go on exchange to referee match between two rival public schools. There was the usual crowd of supporting parents until 15 minutes before end of game when suddenly all the other games finished and players and supporters came across to lend their support to their respective 1st XV’s.
Home school scored with final play and had conversion to win. I stood next to kicker and followed kick in and from my view it appeared to go over the top of the upright. I looked at TJ’s (who were the respective rugby coaches) and home TJ put flag up and quickly ran away and away TJ kept his flag down. So I thought :wtf: do I do now?!
After consulting both TJ’s who were obviously adamant they were correct I thought about what I had learnt on my NFC course i.e. Safety, Equity, Law and decided right we will take the conversion again and this time it went straight down the middle!
Senior referees advised that I should view the upright as extending up to the sky and majority of times it would have bounced back in field or outside post so I should have disallowed conversion and gone with the draw.:chin: