Waspsfan
Referees in England
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Just caught up with the highlights of the European games from the weekend and the pundits on Sky discussed two refereeing decisions at length. I didn't agree with them on either! I wonder what others think (sorry no clips).
1) Leinster v Castres. Away scrum half yellow carded for third incidence of feeding at the scrum. Pundits in uproar at referee. We just can't win. You are villified if you don't enforce the straight feed and abused for enforcing it! At no point did anyone mention that the scrum half, who had been warned and penalised twice already, was an idiot for not complying with a very simple request!
2) Racing Metro score a last second try to win their game but TMO adjudges Jonny Sexton to have knocked ball on in the build up. The scenario was that he ripped the ball from the opposition and in doing so the ball went toward's the opposition's goal line. For me a knock on - but again the pundits disagree and state several times that the law book says a knock on from a rip isn't a knock on (reference?!) I think they are confused with the situation where an attacker has the ball ripped out and therefore loses the ball towards his opposition's goal line and isn't penalised for a knock on as it was ripped rather than simply lost forward. Am I right? Comments?
1) Leinster v Castres. Away scrum half yellow carded for third incidence of feeding at the scrum. Pundits in uproar at referee. We just can't win. You are villified if you don't enforce the straight feed and abused for enforcing it! At no point did anyone mention that the scrum half, who had been warned and penalised twice already, was an idiot for not complying with a very simple request!
2) Racing Metro score a last second try to win their game but TMO adjudges Jonny Sexton to have knocked ball on in the build up. The scenario was that he ripped the ball from the opposition and in doing so the ball went toward's the opposition's goal line. For me a knock on - but again the pundits disagree and state several times that the law book says a knock on from a rip isn't a knock on (reference?!) I think they are confused with the situation where an attacker has the ball ripped out and therefore loses the ball towards his opposition's goal line and isn't penalised for a knock on as it was ripped rather than simply lost forward. Am I right? Comments?
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