Bristol vs Leicester today.
Leicester 3 points down. Less than 30 seconds to go.
Leicester kicked for touch from a penalty with the clock at 79:50. (The line out would have been part of the penalty so would have been completed after the clock goes red.)
Piatau quite brilliant stops the ball from going into touch at 79:56 but in doing so knocks the ball on back into the field of play. (He lands in play as well so no line out should be given.)
All the Bristol players retreating are told by Sheedy to leave the ball alone as they are all offside. If they touched it would have been Leicester penalty. Piatau retrieves his own knock on and the ball is recycled by Bristol and kicked into touch at 80:04.
Ref Foley then asks the TMO, did the knock on occur before time is up. He said yes it did so Foley awards the scrum to Leicester.
In my opinion this is wrong and the game should have ended on the knock on at 80:04.
Thoughts pls.
Leicester 3 points down. Less than 30 seconds to go.
Leicester kicked for touch from a penalty with the clock at 79:50. (The line out would have been part of the penalty so would have been completed after the clock goes red.)
Piatau quite brilliant stops the ball from going into touch at 79:56 but in doing so knocks the ball on back into the field of play. (He lands in play as well so no line out should be given.)
All the Bristol players retreating are told by Sheedy to leave the ball alone as they are all offside. If they touched it would have been Leicester penalty. Piatau retrieves his own knock on and the ball is recycled by Bristol and kicked into touch at 80:04.
Ref Foley then asks the TMO, did the knock on occur before time is up. He said yes it did so Foley awards the scrum to Leicester.
In my opinion this is wrong and the game should have ended on the knock on at 80:04.
Thoughts pls.