Rolland gets it wrong!

[Jenko]

http://thestar.com.my/sports/story....TT_0_UK-RUGBY-CHAMPIONSHIP-REFEREE&sec=sports

Referee Alain Rolland was wrong not to allow Australia to make a late substitution and finish their match against South Africa with 15 men, the International Rugby Board (IRB) said hours after backing the officials' original decision.

This after the IRB said he was right!!

"The referee was correct," the Dublin-based IRB's James Fitzgerald told Australia's Fairfax media on Wednesday only for the sport's world governing body to issue a statement later to say Rolland was wrong.

"Following an initial review, the five-strong match official team acknowledges that they failed to recognise Law 3.12 (Exception 2) when managing a substitution in the 66th minute, which meant that Australia finished the match with 14 players," the statement said.

Doesn't add credibility to the International game when we get issues like this!

 

[Davet]

See the Uncontested Scrums thread in this same section of the forum for a full discussion.