SWING LOWWW - The Rugby World Cup Thread

[TightEnd]

Wow unlucky. What a performance

[rinswun]

Devastating for Scotland. Another awful refereeing performance though - or officiating, more accurately. The sinning sinbinning for the deliberate knock on was the worst decision of this World Cup. Final penalty wasn't even a Scottish knock on either.

[kukushkin88]

Devastating for Scotland. Another awful refereeing performance though - or officiating, more accurately. The sinning sinbinning for the deliberate knock on was the worst decision of this World Cup. Final penalty wasn't even a Scottish knock on either.

Obviously was a knock on but touched an Aussie so should have been a scrum. The deliberate knock was an interesting one, the pass he was trying to intercept was forward, by quite a long way. Bad refereeing really game back to haunt rugby after an excellent 4/5 years.

[TightEnd]

I thought Joubert was bad for boTh sides. Reffed the aussies off the park at scrum time too. The last pen was a scrum.

[AlunB]

Devastating for Scotland. Another awful refereeing performance though - or officiating, more accurately. The sinning sinbinning for the deliberate knock on was the worst decision of this World Cup. Final penalty wasn't even a Scottish knock on either.

*not sure if serious.gif*

He would have been an absolute miracle worker to have caught that one. It wasn't 100% clear cut, but in real time it looked deliberate and still did in slow mo. Plus bear in mind he was out of position with drew mitchell outside him almost certain to score.

[AlunB]

for the winning south african score, what did people think about cutherbert's decision to come off his wing and take vermuelen? it looked like he might be slipping the davies tackle and only a brilliant offload did for them.

was he right to come or should he have stayed?

I think the decision was OK. The execution of the wrap tackle was horrendous. If you're going to do that then use your massive arms to wrap him up don't just sort of limply charge into him and put your hand on his chest.

[DungBeetle]

As a fledgling rugby fan it had put me right off. They overuse TMO in the tournament and then the ref today decides he doesn't need it for the Aus penalty?  Mindless

[nirvana]

Seems ludicrous that 3 points can be awarded to one team for something so slight/trivial/non deliberate. Also, seems bizarre to design a game that depends so much on referees guessing what happened, titwank is what it is

[AlunB]

As a fledgling rugby fan it had put me right off. They overuse TMO in the tournament and then the ref today decides he doesn't need it for the Aus penalty?  Mindless

I don't think you can use the TMO for that. Only for scoring plays or foul play (as in yellow card offences etc) I think. Am sure tighty would know.

And I do agree that some of the penalty awards are out of balance to what caused them. I don't think there should be ANY penalties given at scrums. Always a free kick.

[George2Loose]

no one knows the rules anyway

[The Camel]

If they made the pitch a yard shorter, there would be a lot more tries.


(stolen from Andy Ward on Twitter)

[TightEnd]

but the ref can't refer an offside to the TMO

"The TMO can be used only in the following circumstances..." http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/news/96575

the ref made a marginal wrong call (basically he guessed) but a number of ex-pros are spouting off without understanding the tournament rules

[Woodsey]

but the ref can't refer an offside to the TMO

"The TMO can be used only in the following circumstances..." http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/news/96575

the ref made a marginal wrong call (basically he guessed) but a number of ex-pros are spouting off without understanding the tournament rules

They do sometimes ask about offside when a try is scored, I assume that's OK to ask at that point then?

[TightEnd]

Once a try has been scored yes, back a couple of phases as joubert did for the disallowed ashley-cooper try where he checked the knock on at the ruck

[TightEnd]

there is a lot in this i think, and clear parallels with the premier league and the england national football team

france has it especially bad (no salary cap, attract a lot of foreign players near the end of their careers, freezes young players out) but you also see it across the english premiership, the pro 12 etc

coach Steve Hansen says 'foreign players' are destroying European rugby

http://www.rugby365.com/tournaments/world-cup/69550-hansen-criticises-european-model