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Rugby World Cup 2015
[2015 RWC] Quarter Final 4: Australia vs. Scotland (18/10/2015)
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<blockquote data-quote="scootz" data-source="post: 762427" data-attributes="member: 55596"><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">Yes, World Rugby have been reported as saying that the ref couldn't have referred it to the TMO, but I question whether they have interpreted their own rules correctly on this occasion (it happens).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">The protocol...</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">(b) A match organiser may appoint an official known as a Television Match Official (TMO) who uses technological devices to clarify situations relating to:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">Where there is doubt as to whether a ball has been grounded in in-goal for a score or a touchdown</span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">Where there is doubt as to whether a kick at goal has been successful</span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">Where there is doubt as to whether players were in touch or touch in goal before grounding the ball in in-goal or the ball has been made dead<br /> </span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">Where match officials believe an infringement may have occurred leading to a try or in preventing a try providing that the potential infringement has occurred no more than two phases (rucks or mauls) after the potential infringement and before the ball has been grounded in in-goal<br /> </span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #FF0000">Where match officials believe foul play may have occurred</span><br /> </span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000">The clarification of sanctions required for acts of foul play. </span></span></span></li> </ol><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">I have worked with legislative documents for many years and the construction of this piece is quite clear. Rule 5 is a stand-alone essential of the protocol, and it clearly provides that match officials can use the TMO to review instances where they believe that foul play has occurred. A deliberate offside - as indicated by Joubert in awarding the penalty - is an act of 'foul play'. The legislation therefore provides that it can be reviewed.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">Whether the foul occurred during the build up to a score is irrelevant here. Rule 4 provides for that, and Rule 5 stands alone.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">In any case, this tournament has already seen the TMO being consulted, or interjecting, on instances of alleged foul play that have occurred during live-play that was entirely separate of any try-scoring scenarios.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">TMO's aside, Joubert got the call wrong (as he also did for the late tackle on Hogg and the penalty against Maitland). It should have been a scrum for Australia. Still very dangerous from a Scots point of view, but not immediately fatally so.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">But at the end of the day, that ridiculous line-out call has left me more disappointed that the Ref's mistake. Scotland were in control of their own destiny at that point!</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scootz, post: 762427, member: 55596"] [SIZE=2][FONT=arial]Yes, World Rugby have been reported as saying that the ref couldn't have referred it to the TMO, but I question whether they have interpreted their own rules correctly on this occasion (it happens). The protocol... (b) A match organiser may appoint an official known as a Television Match Official (TMO) who uses technological devices to clarify situations relating to: [/FONT][/SIZE] [LIST=1] [*][SIZE=2][FONT=arial]Where there is doubt as to whether a ball has been grounded in in-goal for a score or a touchdown[/FONT][/SIZE] [*][SIZE=2][FONT=arial]Where there is doubt as to whether a kick at goal has been successful[/FONT][/SIZE] [*][SIZE=2][FONT=arial]Where there is doubt as to whether players were in touch or touch in goal before grounding the ball in in-goal or the ball has been made dead [/FONT][/SIZE] [*][SIZE=2][FONT=arial]Where match officials believe an infringement may have occurred leading to a try or in preventing a try providing that the potential infringement has occurred no more than two phases (rucks or mauls) after the potential infringement and before the ball has been grounded in in-goal [/FONT][/SIZE] [*][SIZE=2][FONT=arial][COLOR=#FF0000]Where match officials believe foul play may have occurred[/COLOR] [/FONT][/SIZE] [*][SIZE=2][FONT=arial][COLOR=#000000]The clarification of sanctions required for acts of foul play. [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [/LIST] [SIZE=2] [FONT=arial]I have worked with legislative documents for many years and the construction of this piece is quite clear. Rule 5 is a stand-alone essential of the protocol, and it clearly provides that match officials can use the TMO to review instances where they believe that foul play has occurred. A deliberate offside - as indicated by Joubert in awarding the penalty - is an act of 'foul play'. The legislation therefore provides that it can be reviewed.[/FONT] [FONT=arial]Whether the foul occurred during the build up to a score is irrelevant here. Rule 4 provides for that, and Rule 5 stands alone.[/FONT] [FONT=arial]In any case, this tournament has already seen the TMO being consulted, or interjecting, on instances of alleged foul play that have occurred during live-play that was entirely separate of any try-scoring scenarios.[/FONT] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=arial]TMO's aside, Joubert got the call wrong (as he also did for the late tackle on Hogg and the penalty against Maitland). It should have been a scrum for Australia. Still very dangerous from a Scots point of view, but not immediately fatally so. But at the end of the day, that ridiculous line-out call has left me more disappointed that the Ref's mistake. Scotland were in control of their own destiny at that point![/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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