TigerCraig
Referees in Australia
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Yesterday we had a situation that raised a lot of questions. BTW I coach red.
Red player (large PI about 6 foot 4, 16 stone) crosses the line and starts running around to get closer to the posts with a little showboating. Blue player (quite a bit smaller) comes around into his path but with no real intention to tackle him.
The red player ran over the blue one - think Lomu/Catt and grounds the ball.
Referee disallows try and bins red player. Was a critical moment as score was 28-10 blue at the time, and blue scored 2 tries while the player (plus our captain - more later) was in the bin.
Chatting to the ref after the game he said he thought it was dangerous play as red was running excessively hard, could easily have just scored and that blue wasn't a real threat to stop him. I checked if there was a lifted elbow or knee but no, just running too hard.
Reason captain got sent to was one player said the decision was Bs, ref didn't know who so he told captain to produce someone or he would be sent. Captain honestly didn't know who it was and as he was walking off rhe guy who did say it went to the ref and owned up, but ref said too late, captains responsible so he goes
Red player (large PI about 6 foot 4, 16 stone) crosses the line and starts running around to get closer to the posts with a little showboating. Blue player (quite a bit smaller) comes around into his path but with no real intention to tackle him.
The red player ran over the blue one - think Lomu/Catt and grounds the ball.
Referee disallows try and bins red player. Was a critical moment as score was 28-10 blue at the time, and blue scored 2 tries while the player (plus our captain - more later) was in the bin.
Chatting to the ref after the game he said he thought it was dangerous play as red was running excessively hard, could easily have just scored and that blue wasn't a real threat to stop him. I checked if there was a lifted elbow or knee but no, just running too hard.
Reason captain got sent to was one player said the decision was Bs, ref didn't know who so he told captain to produce someone or he would be sent. Captain honestly didn't know who it was and as he was walking off rhe guy who did say it went to the ref and owned up, but ref said too late, captains responsible so he goes