Thatll be the not in a realistic position to catch comment, he went for the ball, fine, but the white player got their first, and then in the tangle of arms he took him out and created a dangerous landing. Greens actions caused that so pen and YC seems reasonable and expected to me
not exactly, because this "realistic position to catch" it is so problematic.
white jumps early, knocks it on with the leading hand and in the collision he is the one that comes down harder, so it looks terrible.
both in a realistic position to catch it. White doesn't catch it, so why is he protected, because he jumped earlier? is that what we're trying to do here, a highjump contest?
lots of camera angles and slow-mo here
https://youtu.be/f5_Dhs6SYf0?t=369
because that becomes problematic again when you look at the final play.
2nd angle available here, once again is this not a contest in the air?
https://youtu.be/f5_Dhs6SYf0?t=745
white doesn't catch the ball goes straight out the breadbasket, and ref determines neither green 4 or 20 in a realistic position to catch the ball.
gets reviewed by TMO, and decision is that neither green player could have caught the ball (even though 20 does gets his hands to it, despite some possibly unintentional blocking by white 4). This issue is not going away, as if there is going to be a contest in the air, then more than one player has rights to it.
The only way to make it black and white is to look at each player individually. If they were close enough to make a catch, then they have rights to go for it. If the other player gets there marginally first, fair contest. This will result in midair collisions which obviously comes with higher degree of risk to both players.
but hey, if we're talking definite yellow cards, how about a swinging arm to the head?
https://youtu.be/f5_Dhs6SYf0?t=242
TMO + ref interpretation= "Green4 fell into the swinging arm". and then once contact is made with the head white continues to apply more force to the neck area. Any other day of the week that is a YC, especially once seen by ref and TMO. similar but different incident called in the Aus v Wal game.
So yes, we're at the stage where videos are being made about bad calls from onfield match officials and TMO adding nothing to the equation. This one is just from the final 20minutes of this game, and there's also one on the Aus v Wal game too. Some will say that you could make a video on the bad calls going the other way, well that was said in July for the 1st BIL test, and we're still waiting for it.
It's no coincidence that this comes against the backdrop of SA DoR now suspended and Aus coach possibly facing sanction for airing his thoughts.
What's the solution, make refs more accountable for bad calls?
Use expert trained TMO rather than referees?
Throw the rulebook away and start from scratch?
No matter what, there is a big problem here and Worldrugby ignores it at its peril.