I am collecting these now.
Yesterday I was watching a game - U17 league game, society ref but in this game acting in a club-ref capacity: ie appointed by the home club (his club) to the ref the game.
Blue started the game with only 14 players, and had eight in the scrum.
after about 20 minutes a blue forward was injured and had to leave the field. No subs obviously.
some discussion between the referee, the blue captain and blue coach that I couldn't hear.
Referee restarted the game - it was a scrum restart - announcing that blue now had only six forwards. Scrums went to 3:2:1 (still contested). Red coaches made no objection, they preferred six to seven as with six there is still a #8 and therefore still the option to do #8 pick ups. (most likely this was exactly the reason that blue also wanted six)
Both teams were happy. Was the referee wrong?
(if I had been refereeing I would have done the same)
Yesterday I was watching a game - U17 league game, society ref but in this game acting in a club-ref capacity: ie appointed by the home club (his club) to the ref the game.
Blue started the game with only 14 players, and had eight in the scrum.
after about 20 minutes a blue forward was injured and had to leave the field. No subs obviously.
some discussion between the referee, the blue captain and blue coach that I couldn't hear.
Referee restarted the game - it was a scrum restart - announcing that blue now had only six forwards. Scrums went to 3:2:1 (still contested). Red coaches made no objection, they preferred six to seven as with six there is still a #8 and therefore still the option to do #8 pick ups. (most likely this was exactly the reason that blue also wanted six)
Both teams were happy. Was the referee wrong?
(if I had been refereeing I would have done the same)
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