Greg Collins
Referees in England
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An exagerrated, hypothetical, version of something I saw in one of the games I watched over the weekend.
Black vs White.
Black attacking deep in White's 22m. Injury time in knockout final. White behind by 6 points.
Black inside centre attempts a miss pass to his winger, White outside centre reads it and stretches out his outside arm and swats/bats/otherwise knocks the ball hard away from his goal line, making no apparent attempt to catch it, using a motion that most days you would interpret as liable to result in a PK for deliberate knock-on.
But he propels the ball upwards and it sail ups and away over/past the attacking Black 3/4 line.
OK now bear with me, a three scenario situation. How would you ref these....
a) Ball hits deck or black lock who was following up.
b) White outside centre realises the ball is in the air, a plan forms in his mind, he steps past his opposite number cleanly catches the ball he propelled towards the Black goal line, and runs past the arriving lock from scenario a) sprinting 90m to score the winning try of the game under the posts.
c) White winger, onside, realises the ball is up in the air, steps past and inside his opposite number, cleanly catches the ball his outside centre propelled by hand towards the Black goal line, runs past the arriving lock from a) and sprints 90m to score the winning try of the game under the posts.
Black vs White.
Black attacking deep in White's 22m. Injury time in knockout final. White behind by 6 points.
Black inside centre attempts a miss pass to his winger, White outside centre reads it and stretches out his outside arm and swats/bats/otherwise knocks the ball hard away from his goal line, making no apparent attempt to catch it, using a motion that most days you would interpret as liable to result in a PK for deliberate knock-on.
But he propels the ball upwards and it sail ups and away over/past the attacking Black 3/4 line.
OK now bear with me, a three scenario situation. How would you ref these....
a) Ball hits deck or black lock who was following up.
b) White outside centre realises the ball is in the air, a plan forms in his mind, he steps past his opposite number cleanly catches the ball he propelled towards the Black goal line, and runs past the arriving lock from scenario a) sprinting 90m to score the winning try of the game under the posts.
c) White winger, onside, realises the ball is up in the air, steps past and inside his opposite number, cleanly catches the ball his outside centre propelled by hand towards the Black goal line, runs past the arriving lock from a) and sprints 90m to score the winning try of the game under the posts.
