The Laws do not support your sentiment.
Blue infringe at a scrum.
A PK is awarded to Red.
Red 9 holds the ball in both hands, lifts his right foot and taps his foot with the ball so he can go quickly.
The correct decision in such a situation is that a scrum is awarded to blue at the original mark.
Might not sound fair, but that's the way it is.
I agree, in that situation, but that isn't what happened.
It order to commit a kicking infringement, you have to attempt to kick the ball, and get it wrong. This means the player attempts to kick and...
a. the ball does not leave the hand
b. the ball does not leave the mark.
c. the ball is kicked with the knee or the heel
d. the ball is kicked with the wrong type of kick (punted when it should have been a drop-kick or place kicked when it is not allowed to be a place kick)
These are the ONLY kicking infringements listed in the LotG.
Perenara did not kick, or even attempt to kick the ball at all, ergo, he did not commit an infringement, and no interpretation of the law can make it so. If you think what he did was an infringement, then you are making it up out of whole cloth.
I really think you are drawing a very long bow in TJP's defence
I'm not defending Perenara and what he did, I'm defending Angus Gardner and his decision to change from a Red scrum to a replay of the PK to Gold. IMO. AG got this right on the money and is to be commended for making the correct decision in a pressure situation.
On a rugby field, I want ALL the referee's decisions to be correct. Just because it is not realistically going to happen doesn't mean we should not strive for that perfection, and I don't much care how we get there. If a referee changes his decision to the correct one because a player tells him he has it wrong, that's just fine with me.