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Rugby World Cup 2015
Refereeing, officiating, and the way the game is controlled!
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<blockquote data-quote="donmcdazzle" data-source="post: 746262" data-attributes="member: 44093"><p>I have huge problems with the stuff I've bolded. Unless something is foul play or totally egregious then the TMO should just keep his mouth shut until he is referred to by the ref. I'm positive you could find a penalty at every single ruck if you watched it in slow motion. Imagine a winning try getting brought back for a penalty because someone left their feet at a ruck 2 phases ago that had no impact on the game. The clear out penalty and the maul one were both nothing events that didn't affect the game at all and that you see relatively frequently to unpunished.</p><p></p><p>the second one harks back to an episode in South Africa where Messam got pinged after the video guy had repeatedly played a replay of a high tackle and the crowd fired up. Would the same sort of thing have been done of it was a South African player doing the high tackle? I had huge problems with it then and still do. I obviously want the right calls all the time, (and we had had this ability in 2007 then the ABs would've beaten France!) but you don't want on,y one side being subject to extra scrutiny by the video guy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donmcdazzle, post: 746262, member: 44093"] I have huge problems with the stuff I've bolded. Unless something is foul play or totally egregious then the TMO should just keep his mouth shut until he is referred to by the ref. I'm positive you could find a penalty at every single ruck if you watched it in slow motion. Imagine a winning try getting brought back for a penalty because someone left their feet at a ruck 2 phases ago that had no impact on the game. The clear out penalty and the maul one were both nothing events that didn't affect the game at all and that you see relatively frequently to unpunished. the second one harks back to an episode in South Africa where Messam got pinged after the video guy had repeatedly played a replay of a high tackle and the crowd fired up. Would the same sort of thing have been done of it was a South African player doing the high tackle? I had huge problems with it then and still do. I obviously want the right calls all the time, (and we had had this ability in 2007 then the ABs would've beaten France!) but you don't want on,y one side being subject to extra scrutiny by the video guy. [/QUOTE]
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