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Pool 2 (Connacht, Toulouse, Wasps, Zebre)
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<blockquote data-quote="Mrs. Peter Quinn" data-source="post: 828652" data-attributes="member: 12190"><p>Completely echo the comments about the referee and the game just being a little harder to enjoy under the current safety directives.</p><p></p><p>There are actually three problems as typified by this game:</p><p></p><p>1) The directives coming down from above</p><p></p><p>2) The quality of referees</p><p></p><p>3) The quality of referee-TMO interaction.</p><p></p><p>The Beale incident yesterday was a little of everything in my opinion. The referee was attempting to follow his idea of the already stringent directives but even those laws make room for lenience when you've got the player already slipping into the tackle to the extent that his head was at normal shoulder height. To be honest I think that decision is owned by the referee in combination with the TMO because the former didn't consider contextual factors and the latter didn't provide any insight or further comment. I don't believe TMOs will be of any use in rugby unless they are given slightly more room to be useful, rather than the "speak only when spoken to" rubbish we have now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mrs. Peter Quinn, post: 828652, member: 12190"] Completely echo the comments about the referee and the game just being a little harder to enjoy under the current safety directives. There are actually three problems as typified by this game: 1) The directives coming down from above 2) The quality of referees 3) The quality of referee-TMO interaction. The Beale incident yesterday was a little of everything in my opinion. The referee was attempting to follow his idea of the already stringent directives but even those laws make room for lenience when you've got the player already slipping into the tackle to the extent that his head was at normal shoulder height. To be honest I think that decision is owned by the referee in combination with the TMO because the former didn't consider contextual factors and the latter didn't provide any insight or further comment. I don't believe TMOs will be of any use in rugby unless they are given slightly more room to be useful, rather than the "speak only when spoken to" rubbish we have now. [/QUOTE]
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