Crazy behaviour. Barnes handled the incident well.
Barnsey's having a good tour so far. I'd prefer to see Nigel get the final but I think its more likely to be WB or Pascal.
Oops - I think Italy should have dropped to 14 players when they went uncontested :
[LAWS]3.17 In a squad of 23 players or at the discretion of the match organiser, a player whose departure has caused the referee to order uncontested scrums cannot be replaced.[/LAWS]
Or in fact when the second prop went off for an HIA it was correct to stay at 15 but when after ten minutes the HIA was made permanent the temporary replacement should have left the field taking Italy down to 14
Didn’t they have the required number of replacements but both THs were injured so they had fulfilled their obligations ie no need to reduce.
Didn’t they have the required number of replacements but both THs were injured so they had fulfilled their obligations ie no need to reduce.
The commentator said twice that it was a bit odd because the part of the player that got injured wasn't anywhere near his head...I don't think we have heard the last of that because any suspicion of a fake HIA would be like a fake blood injury.. ..
The commentator said twice that it was a bit odd because the part of the player that got injured wasn't anywhere near his head...