This from today. Any thoughts appreciated please.
Under 16 cup match. Very competitive.
Red attacking for a good few minutes. Three breakdown offences, all in the red zone, getting close to a yellow card in my view.
Next offence. Penalty to Red on around 8 metres. Blue run back to the goal line, red takes it quickly and targets an area where three slow forwards have their backs to him. They have not yet made the goal line, but in seeing him take it quickly ignore the fact they are offside and tackle around 1 metre out and hold him up. I take the view that if they had not tackled him, a try would probably have been scored. I award a penalty try to howls from Blue. It was one of this instant decisions that I explained to Blue captain, but was a bit unsure when going back to the halfway line. Blue said "you have to give us a chance ref! ". I'm not sure I do actually. But was I right?
Under 16 cup match. Very competitive.
Red attacking for a good few minutes. Three breakdown offences, all in the red zone, getting close to a yellow card in my view.
Next offence. Penalty to Red on around 8 metres. Blue run back to the goal line, red takes it quickly and targets an area where three slow forwards have their backs to him. They have not yet made the goal line, but in seeing him take it quickly ignore the fact they are offside and tackle around 1 metre out and hold him up. I take the view that if they had not tackled him, a try would probably have been scored. I award a penalty try to howls from Blue. It was one of this instant decisions that I explained to Blue captain, but was a bit unsure when going back to the halfway line. Blue said "you have to give us a chance ref! ". I'm not sure I do actually. But was I right?