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<blockquote data-quote="ruggabee" data-source="post: 635016" data-attributes="member: 70704"><p>If you watch the video he did look to see who was coming but on the ball's descent his eyes and arms were upward. This comes down to human error. This doesn't matter though as the law doesn't take anything into consideration other than the contact on an airborne player. I'm not saying Goode is at fault either as he simply took a different approach towards competing for the ball and under the law it is regardless what he does. To me the only thing that is flawed in this is the law. It's much to narrow. I think the red card was even more controversial because we rarely see them given out especially 5 minutes into a game. I was just searching on YouTube "tackled in the air rugby" and every incident didn't result in a red card (Habana/Montgomery, Tuohy/Tonks, Harley/O'Mahony & Slade/Proctor) accept the Tuilagi/Cueto incident that was also due to punching off the ball. If a rule is so inconsistent then it is a flawed law in my view and any possibility of tackling a player the air should be removed by making it compulsory that if you want to compete for a high ball you must jump. Again, I can fully understand why a red card was given but I don't agree with the law and think there are better ways of handling it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ruggabee, post: 635016, member: 70704"] If you watch the video he did look to see who was coming but on the ball's descent his eyes and arms were upward. This comes down to human error. This doesn't matter though as the law doesn't take anything into consideration other than the contact on an airborne player. I'm not saying Goode is at fault either as he simply took a different approach towards competing for the ball and under the law it is regardless what he does. To me the only thing that is flawed in this is the law. It's much to narrow. I think the red card was even more controversial because we rarely see them given out especially 5 minutes into a game. I was just searching on YouTube "tackled in the air rugby" and every incident didn't result in a red card (Habana/Montgomery, Tuohy/Tonks, Harley/O'Mahony & Slade/Proctor) accept the Tuilagi/Cueto incident that was also due to punching off the ball. If a rule is so inconsistent then it is a flawed law in my view and any possibility of tackling a player the air should be removed by making it compulsory that if you want to compete for a high ball you must jump. Again, I can fully understand why a red card was given but I don't agree with the law and think there are better ways of handling it. [/QUOTE]
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