Red Cards & HIA
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@Dodge that's an interesting perspective, thanks. I don't have time to watch a lot of NH rugby, so my impression from the last RWC is that the push for cards for these types of incidents came strongly from the north. And further to that, Ireland themselves have a history of calling for cards for the opposition whenever there is some form of accidental head contact. So to that end, they made their bed, they can lie in it now. If that is changing then that's a good thing, but as we are all saying, the directive from WR has to be crystal clear on this, but right now it's as clear as mud.
@No-Quarter said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@Dodge that's an interesting perspective, thanks. I don't have time to watch a lot of NH rugby, so my impression from the last RWC is that the push for cards for these types of incidents came strongly from the north. And further to that, Ireland themselves have a history of calling for cards for the opposition whenever there is some form of accidental head contact. So to that end, they made their bed, they can lie in it now. If that is changing then that's a good thing, but as we are all saying, the directive from WR has to be crystal clear on this, but right now it's as clear as mud.
I don’t know whether the push came from the NH but it was certainly refereed a lot more harshly in the NH in the year before the WC. I’ve said it before that I called out a head contact in that year in Super Rugby that would have been a red up North and wasn’t even commented on. I predicted a car crash in the WC at that moment.
The interpretations changed as the WC wore on after a few reds early doors. The watering down of the punishment has definitely continued.
As TR says, this is entirely the fault of WR that so many of us find it difficult to predict now. Find it irritating that in the statement from WR about the above, it says it didn’t meet the threshold for red but doesn’t explain why.
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Genuine question, not stirring the pot.
So please take a moment before knee jerking down my throat.
If Roigard had passed behind the oncoming BB, with BB acting as the dummy runner, and BB had clattered into Beirne is that a penalty against BB for obstruction or a penalty against Beirne for ‘tackling’ the man (BB) without the ball?
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Genuine question, not stirring the pot.
So please take a moment before knee jerking down my throat.
If Roigard had passed behind the oncoming BB, with BB acting as the dummy runner, and BB had clattered into Beirne is that a penalty against BB for obstruction or a penalty against Beirne for ‘tackling’ the man (BB) without the ball?
@MiketheSnow said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
Genuine question, not stirring the pot.
So please take a moment before knee jerking down my throat.
If Roigard had passed behind the oncoming BB, with BB acting as the dummy runner, and BB had clattered into Beirne is that a penalty against BB for obstruction or a penalty against Beirne for ‘tackling’ the man (BB) without the ball?
That would be a penalty against Beirne for tackling a player without the ball, as you say, but not if Beirne hits Barrett high, as he does in this instance.
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@MiketheSnow said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
Genuine question, not stirring the pot.
So please take a moment before knee jerking down my throat.
If Roigard had passed behind the oncoming BB, with BB acting as the dummy runner, and BB had clattered into Beirne is that a penalty against BB for obstruction or a penalty against Beirne for ‘tackling’ the man (BB) without the ball?
That would be a penalty against Beirne for tackling a player without the ball, as you say, but not if Beirne hits Barrett high, as he does in this instance.
@Mr-Fish said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@MiketheSnow said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
Genuine question, not stirring the pot.
So please take a moment before knee jerking down my throat.
If Roigard had passed behind the oncoming BB, with BB acting as the dummy runner, and BB had clattered into Beirne is that a penalty against BB for obstruction or a penalty against Beirne for ‘tackling’ the man (BB) without the ball?
That would be a penalty against Beirne for tackling a player without the ball, as you say, but not if Beirne hits Barrett high, as he does in this instance.
Thanks
See that doesn’t make sense to me
In that scenario, BB would never be in a position to catch the ball and in my view is obstructing the defender
That’s something I’d like to see changed
In my day, an M-1 or M-2 had to go across the chest of the ‘missed’ player, not his arse
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Genuine question, not stirring the pot.
So please take a moment before knee jerking down my throat.
If Roigard had passed behind the oncoming BB, with BB acting as the dummy runner, and BB had clattered into Beirne is that a penalty against BB for obstruction or a penalty against Beirne for ‘tackling’ the man (BB) without the ball?
@MiketheSnow said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
Genuine question, not stirring the pot.
So please take a moment before knee jerking down my throat.
If Roigard had passed behind the oncoming BB, with BB acting as the dummy runner, and BB had clattered into Beirne is that a penalty against BB for obstruction or a penalty against Beirne for ‘tackling’ the man (BB) without the ball?
Depends if Beauden takes Beirne out preventing him from being able to make a tackle
Because Beirne didn't "tackle" Brauden, he'd be fine IMO.
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Genuine question, not stirring the pot.
So please take a moment before knee jerking down my throat.
If Roigard had passed behind the oncoming BB, with BB acting as the dummy runner, and BB had clattered into Beirne is that a penalty against BB for obstruction or a penalty against Beirne for ‘tackling’ the man (BB) without the ball?
@MiketheSnow said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
Genuine question, not stirring the pot.
So please take a moment before knee jerking down my throat.
If Roigard had passed behind the oncoming BB, with BB acting as the dummy runner, and BB had clattered into Beirne is that a penalty against BB for obstruction or a penalty against Beirne for ‘tackling’ the man (BB) without the ball?
We had an iteration of that when Freddie Steward and Hugo Keenan collided.
Whomever hits the other in the head (regardless of game state) gets sent off. It’s that simple.
Forward pass, dummy runners etc etc are all red herrings. Don’t hit the other lad in the head. That’s the point of all this nonsense in the first place. To protect the head.
For the record I’m from the “it’s not tiddlywinks” school of hard knocks. I don’t think anyone should be sent off bar ripping out someone’s testicle.
But if you send off one of my lads this week , I expect to see the lad from the opposition sent off the next week if he does a version of the same offense. And I expect fans of that team to go “fair enough”.
What we have now is just garbage.
We could have won the Lions series if Vunipola gets same sanction as SBW for forearm smashing a prone Beaudy Barrett in the face.
We could have won the Lions series if Sean O Brien gets red for knocking Naholo out with a swinging arm.
We could have won the Irish series if Taavao and Porter received the same sanction.
We could have won World Cup final if Cane and Kolisi received the same sanction.
Etc etc etc.
I don’t forget, but officialdom and opposition fans seem to.
The Irish (Sexton and Murray) were the worst onfield card chasers. Hands aloft at every ruck looking for referee intervention.
Now the Irish feel aggrieved and their fans will lean on this card as the reason they lost
It’s lamentable carry on from World Rugby.
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@Mr-Fish said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@MiketheSnow said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
Genuine question, not stirring the pot.
So please take a moment before knee jerking down my throat.
If Roigard had passed behind the oncoming BB, with BB acting as the dummy runner, and BB had clattered into Beirne is that a penalty against BB for obstruction or a penalty against Beirne for ‘tackling’ the man (BB) without the ball?
That would be a penalty against Beirne for tackling a player without the ball, as you say, but not if Beirne hits Barrett high, as he does in this instance.
Thanks
See that doesn’t make sense to me
In that scenario, BB would never be in a position to catch the ball and in my view is obstructing the defender
That’s something I’d like to see changed
In my day, an M-1 or M-2 had to go across the chest of the ‘missed’ player, not his arse
@MiketheSnow said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
In my day, an M-1 or M-2 had to go across the chest of the ‘missed’ player, not his arse
Christ that's not been the case since I started playing, so you're going back more than 40 years to justify this incident?
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@MiketheSnow said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
Genuine question, not stirring the pot.
So please take a moment before knee jerking down my throat.
If Roigard had passed behind the oncoming BB, with BB acting as the dummy runner, and BB had clattered into Beirne is that a penalty against BB for obstruction or a penalty against Beirne for ‘tackling’ the man (BB) without the ball?
We had an iteration of that when Freddie Steward and Hugo Keenan collided.
Whomever hits the other in the head (regardless of game state) gets sent off. It’s that simple.
Forward pass, dummy runners etc etc are all red herrings. Don’t hit the other lad in the head. That’s the point of all this nonsense in the first place. To protect the head.
For the record I’m from the “it’s not tiddlywinks” school of hard knocks. I don’t think anyone should be sent off bar ripping out someone’s testicle.
But if you send off one of my lads this week , I expect to see the lad from the opposition sent off the next week if he does a version of the same offense. And I expect fans of that team to go “fair enough”.
What we have now is just garbage.
We could have won the Lions series if Vunipola gets same sanction as SBW for forearm smashing a prone Beaudy Barrett in the face.
We could have won the Lions series if Sean O Brien gets red for knocking Naholo out with a swinging arm.
We could have won the Irish series if Taavao and Porter received the same sanction.
We could have won World Cup final if Cane and Kolisi received the same sanction.
Etc etc etc.
I don’t forget, but officialdom and opposition fans seem to.
The Irish (Sexton and Murray) were the worst onfield card chasers. Hands aloft at every ruck looking for referee intervention.
Now the Irish feel aggrieved and their fans will lean on this card as the reason they lost
It’s lamentable carry on from World Rugby.
@Jet said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@MiketheSnow said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
Genuine question, not stirring the pot.
So please take a moment before knee jerking down my throat.
If Roigard had passed behind the oncoming BB, with BB acting as the dummy runner, and BB had clattered into Beirne is that a penalty against BB for obstruction or a penalty against Beirne for ‘tackling’ the man (BB) without the ball?
We had an iteration of that when Freddie Steward and Hugo Keenan collided.
Whomever hits the other in the head (regardless of game state) gets sent off. It’s that simple.
Forward pass, dummy runners etc etc are all red herrings. Don’t hit the other lad in the head. That’s the point of all this nonsense in the first place. To protect the head.
For the record I’m from the “it’s not tiddlywinks” school of hard knocks. I don’t think anyone should be sent off bar ripping out someone’s testicle.
But if you send off one of my lads this week , I expect to see the lad from the opposition sent off the next week if he does a version of the same offense. And I expect fans of that team to go “fair enough”.
What we have now is just garbage.
We could have won the Lions series if Vunipola gets same sanction as SBW for forearm smashing a prone Beaudy Barrett in the face.
We could have won the Lions series if Sean O Brien gets red for knocking Naholo out with a swinging arm.
We could have won the Irish series if Taavao and Porter received the same sanction.
We could have won World Cup final if Cane and Kolisi received the same sanction.
Etc etc etc.
I don’t forget, but officialdom and opposition fans seem to.
The Irish (Sexton and Murray) were the worst onfield card chasers. Hands aloft at every ruck looking for referee intervention.
Now the Irish feel aggrieved and their fans will lean on this card as the reason they lost
It’s lamentable carry on from World Rugby.
You see, this was given red at the time and I called it live as that was consistent with how it was being reffed at that point. Before the decision was made, people were calling me an idiot and saying i didn't understand rugby if i thought that would be a red.
I don't think that would be given as a red today, they would look harder for mitigation. I think it would be more likely decided a rugby incident with two players going for a bouncing ball, maybe a penalty for high contact but mitigated because the Irish player dipped to collect the ball, or because Steward looked like he was pulling out of the contact / bracing for contact etc.
The lack of consistent application of the decision making process is the problem but that is in part because of how fans reacted to individual decisions feeling unfair.
As it happens, I still think the Cane tackle would be red today.
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@Jet said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@MiketheSnow said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
Genuine question, not stirring the pot.
So please take a moment before knee jerking down my throat.
If Roigard had passed behind the oncoming BB, with BB acting as the dummy runner, and BB had clattered into Beirne is that a penalty against BB for obstruction or a penalty against Beirne for ‘tackling’ the man (BB) without the ball?
We had an iteration of that when Freddie Steward and Hugo Keenan collided.
Whomever hits the other in the head (regardless of game state) gets sent off. It’s that simple.
Forward pass, dummy runners etc etc are all red herrings. Don’t hit the other lad in the head. That’s the point of all this nonsense in the first place. To protect the head.
For the record I’m from the “it’s not tiddlywinks” school of hard knocks. I don’t think anyone should be sent off bar ripping out someone’s testicle.
But if you send off one of my lads this week , I expect to see the lad from the opposition sent off the next week if he does a version of the same offense. And I expect fans of that team to go “fair enough”.
What we have now is just garbage.
We could have won the Lions series if Vunipola gets same sanction as SBW for forearm smashing a prone Beaudy Barrett in the face.
We could have won the Lions series if Sean O Brien gets red for knocking Naholo out with a swinging arm.
We could have won the Irish series if Taavao and Porter received the same sanction.
We could have won World Cup final if Cane and Kolisi received the same sanction.
Etc etc etc.
I don’t forget, but officialdom and opposition fans seem to.
The Irish (Sexton and Murray) were the worst onfield card chasers. Hands aloft at every ruck looking for referee intervention.
Now the Irish feel aggrieved and their fans will lean on this card as the reason they lost
It’s lamentable carry on from World Rugby.
You see, this was given red at the time and I called it live as that was consistent with how it was being reffed at that point. Before the decision was made, people were calling me an idiot and saying i didn't understand rugby if i thought that would be a red.
I don't think that would be given as a red today, they would look harder for mitigation. I think it would be more likely decided a rugby incident with two players going for a bouncing ball, maybe a penalty for high contact but mitigated because the Irish player dipped to collect the ball, or because Steward looked like he was pulling out of the contact / bracing for contact etc.
The lack of consistent application of the decision making process is the problem but that is in part because of how fans reacted to individual decisions feeling unfair.
As it happens, I still think the Cane tackle would be red today.
@Dodge said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
As it happens, I still think the Cane tackle would be red today.
Agree.
I’m not sure consistency is the problem, but what has evolved is the fine lines from incident to incident. They’ve tied themselves in knots somewhat.
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@Dodge said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
As it happens, I still think the Cane tackle would be red today.
Agree.
I’m not sure consistency is the problem, but what has evolved is the fine lines from incident to incident. They’ve tied themselves in knots somewhat.
@ACT-Crusader said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@Dodge said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
As it happens, I still think the Cane tackle would be red today.
Agree.
I’m not sure consistency is the problem, but what has evolved is the fine lines from incident to incident. They’ve tied themselves in knots somewhat.
and if i step out of the 'is it red or not in the context of the current rules' and think about 'should that be a red' then I am in favour of more mitigation being applied. It is somewhat inevitable that with more mitigation, then the clear lines between what is and isn't red get more blurred.
In the WC Final, from memory I didn't think Kolisi would be sent off when i saw it live but did think Cane would be - but had it happened earlier that year they both would have been.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@Dodge said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
As it happens, I still think the Cane tackle would be red today.
Agree.
I’m not sure consistency is the problem, but what has evolved is the fine lines from incident to incident. They’ve tied themselves in knots somewhat.
and if i step out of the 'is it red or not in the context of the current rules' and think about 'should that be a red' then I am in favour of more mitigation being applied. It is somewhat inevitable that with more mitigation, then the clear lines between what is and isn't red get more blurred.
In the WC Final, from memory I didn't think Kolisi would be sent off when i saw it live but did think Cane would be - but had it happened earlier that year they both would have been.
@Dodge said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@ACT-Crusader said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@Dodge said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
As it happens, I still think the Cane tackle would be red today.
Agree.
I’m not sure consistency is the problem, but what has evolved is the fine lines from incident to incident. They’ve tied themselves in knots somewhat.
and if i step out of the 'is it red or not in the context of the current rules' and think about 'should that be a red' then I am in favour of more mitigation being applied. It is somewhat inevitable that with more mitigation, then the clear lines between what is and isn't red get more blurred.
In the WC Final, from memory I didn't think Kolisi would be sent off when i saw it live but did think Cane would be - but had it happened earlier that year they both would have been.
I've watched them both again recently for some reason. I'm genuinely baffled how Kolisi didn't get a red for leading with his head. That happens now - red, that happens before the final - red.
I remember watching a tik tok, pommy accented dude
,where he went out of his way to claim no mitigation for Kriel changing direction but that there was all sorts of mitigation in Kolisi's tackle including that the head contact was indirect, I guess head to head doesn't count if you also hit on the shoulder. What's even worse is that Kolisi had come in on a straight line from quite a distance, meanwhile Cane was tracking across field and Kriel turned in after he was running the opposite way.Actually I think I need to leave this discussion, I'll just wind up hating rugby again at this rate.
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@Dodge said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@ACT-Crusader said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@Dodge said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
As it happens, I still think the Cane tackle would be red today.
Agree.
I’m not sure consistency is the problem, but what has evolved is the fine lines from incident to incident. They’ve tied themselves in knots somewhat.
and if i step out of the 'is it red or not in the context of the current rules' and think about 'should that be a red' then I am in favour of more mitigation being applied. It is somewhat inevitable that with more mitigation, then the clear lines between what is and isn't red get more blurred.
In the WC Final, from memory I didn't think Kolisi would be sent off when i saw it live but did think Cane would be - but had it happened earlier that year they both would have been.
I've watched them both again recently for some reason. I'm genuinely baffled how Kolisi didn't get a red for leading with his head. That happens now - red, that happens before the final - red.
I remember watching a tik tok, pommy accented dude
,where he went out of his way to claim no mitigation for Kriel changing direction but that there was all sorts of mitigation in Kolisi's tackle including that the head contact was indirect, I guess head to head doesn't count if you also hit on the shoulder. What's even worse is that Kolisi had come in on a straight line from quite a distance, meanwhile Cane was tracking across field and Kriel turned in after he was running the opposite way.Actually I think I need to leave this discussion, I'll just wind up hating rugby again at this rate.
@Nepia said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@Dodge said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@ACT-Crusader said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@Dodge said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
As it happens, I still think the Cane tackle would be red today.
Agree.
I’m not sure consistency is the problem, but what has evolved is the fine lines from incident to incident. They’ve tied themselves in knots somewhat.
and if i step out of the 'is it red or not in the context of the current rules' and think about 'should that be a red' then I am in favour of more mitigation being applied. It is somewhat inevitable that with more mitigation, then the clear lines between what is and isn't red get more blurred.
In the WC Final, from memory I didn't think Kolisi would be sent off when i saw it live but did think Cane would be - but had it happened earlier that year they both would have been.
I've watched them both again recently for some reason. I'm genuinely baffled how Kolisi didn't get a red for leading with his head. That happens now - red, that happens before the final - red.
I remember watching a tik tok, pommy accented dude
,where he went out of his way to claim no mitigation for Kriel changing direction but that there was all sorts of mitigation in Kolisi's tackle including that the head contact was indirect, I guess head to head doesn't count if you also hit on the shoulder. What's even worse is that Kolisi had come in on a straight line from quite a distance, meanwhile Cane was tracking across field and Kriel turned in after he was running the opposite way.Actually I think I need to leave this discussion, I'll just wind up hating rugby again at this rate.
The only way to do this is for head contact to be all red, all yellow, penalty only or nothing.
If ruling out head injuries in the goal, then just ref them all the same.
I have zero problem with Cane getting his red card in the RWC final.
BUT... I should have been sat with a Springbok fan with a beer saying "Jesus that was mental eh, both our captains sent off in the World Cup final".
Instead our fella gets marched, and theirs stays on to lift the trophy.
And im sat there thinking "what have I just watched?".
Wayne Barnes and Tom Foley decided the outcome of that game in the most random arbitrary fashion.
Particularly so, when Foley interjected for absolutely everything, going back phase after phase to rule out tries, bar Ardie Savea's legal turnover, which ultimately cost us the game points wise.
If we want NFL level pedantry and slo mo's then every decision needs the same microscopic scrutiny or at least the availability of a coaches challenge.
Spurious or ad-hoc pedantry just winds everyone up and is patently unfair in its implementation.
Otherwise put your whistle away and let it flow.
Rugby is a fabulous sport, but I wouldnt want to play the current version of it.
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@MiketheSnow said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
In my day, an M-1 or M-2 had to go across the chest of the ‘missed’ player, not his arse
Christ that's not been the case since I started playing, so you're going back more than 40 years to justify this incident?
@Bones said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@MiketheSnow said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
In my day, an M-1 or M-2 had to go across the chest of the ‘missed’ player, not his arse
Christ that's not been the case since I started playing, so you're going back more than 40 years to justify this incident?
I’m not trying to justify this incident
I’m trying to get a sense of what the officials are looking at
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@Jet said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@MiketheSnow said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
Genuine question, not stirring the pot.
So please take a moment before knee jerking down my throat.
If Roigard had passed behind the oncoming BB, with BB acting as the dummy runner, and BB had clattered into Beirne is that a penalty against BB for obstruction or a penalty against Beirne for ‘tackling’ the man (BB) without the ball?
We had an iteration of that when Freddie Steward and Hugo Keenan collided.
Whomever hits the other in the head (regardless of game state) gets sent off. It’s that simple.
Forward pass, dummy runners etc etc are all red herrings. Don’t hit the other lad in the head. That’s the point of all this nonsense in the first place. To protect the head.
For the record I’m from the “it’s not tiddlywinks” school of hard knocks. I don’t think anyone should be sent off bar ripping out someone’s testicle.
But if you send off one of my lads this week , I expect to see the lad from the opposition sent off the next week if he does a version of the same offense. And I expect fans of that team to go “fair enough”.
What we have now is just garbage.
We could have won the Lions series if Vunipola gets same sanction as SBW for forearm smashing a prone Beaudy Barrett in the face.
We could have won the Lions series if Sean O Brien gets red for knocking Naholo out with a swinging arm.
We could have won the Irish series if Taavao and Porter received the same sanction.
We could have won World Cup final if Cane and Kolisi received the same sanction.
Etc etc etc.
I don’t forget, but officialdom and opposition fans seem to.
The Irish (Sexton and Murray) were the worst onfield card chasers. Hands aloft at every ruck looking for referee intervention.
Now the Irish feel aggrieved and their fans will lean on this card as the reason they lost
It’s lamentable carry on from World Rugby.
You see, this was given red at the time and I called it live as that was consistent with how it was being reffed at that point. Before the decision was made, people were calling me an idiot and saying i didn't understand rugby if i thought that would be a red.
I don't think that would be given as a red today, they would look harder for mitigation. I think it would be more likely decided a rugby incident with two players going for a bouncing ball, maybe a penalty for high contact but mitigated because the Irish player dipped to collect the ball, or because Steward looked like he was pulling out of the contact / bracing for contact etc.
The lack of consistent application of the decision making process is the problem but that is in part because of how fans reacted to individual decisions feeling unfair.
As it happens, I still think the Cane tackle would be red today.
@Dodge said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@Jet said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@MiketheSnow said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
Genuine question, not stirring the pot.
So please take a moment before knee jerking down my throat.
If Roigard had passed behind the oncoming BB, with BB acting as the dummy runner, and BB had clattered into Beirne is that a penalty against BB for obstruction or a penalty against Beirne for ‘tackling’ the man (BB) without the ball?
We had an iteration of that when Freddie Steward and Hugo Keenan collided.
Whomever hits the other in the head (regardless of game state) gets sent off. It’s that simple.
Forward pass, dummy runners etc etc are all red herrings. Don’t hit the other lad in the head. That’s the point of all this nonsense in the first place. To protect the head.
For the record I’m from the “it’s not tiddlywinks” school of hard knocks. I don’t think anyone should be sent off bar ripping out someone’s testicle.
But if you send off one of my lads this week , I expect to see the lad from the opposition sent off the next week if he does a version of the same offense. And I expect fans of that team to go “fair enough”.
What we have now is just garbage.
We could have won the Lions series if Vunipola gets same sanction as SBW for forearm smashing a prone Beaudy Barrett in the face.
We could have won the Lions series if Sean O Brien gets red for knocking Naholo out with a swinging arm.
We could have won the Irish series if Taavao and Porter received the same sanction.
We could have won World Cup final if Cane and Kolisi received the same sanction.
Etc etc etc.
I don’t forget, but officialdom and opposition fans seem to.
The Irish (Sexton and Murray) were the worst onfield card chasers. Hands aloft at every ruck looking for referee intervention.
Now the Irish feel aggrieved and their fans will lean on this card as the reason they lost
It’s lamentable carry on from World Rugby.
You see, this was given red at the time and I called it live as that was consistent with how it was being reffed at that point. Before the decision was made, people were calling me an idiot and saying i didn't understand rugby if i thought that would be a red.
I don't think that would be given as a red today, they would look harder for mitigation. I think it would be more likely decided a rugby incident with two players going for a bouncing ball, maybe a penalty for high contact but mitigated because the Irish player dipped to collect the ball, or because Steward looked like he was pulling out of the contact / bracing for contact etc.
The lack of consistent application of the decision making process is the problem but that is in part because of how fans reacted to individual decisions feeling unfair.
As it happens, I still think the Cane tackle would be red today.
Listen to Jaco in the clip "high degree of danger, always upright".
Contrast that with Beirne getting his red rescinded.
Contrast that with Porter breaking Retallicks face and getting yellow only.
They need to remove all the grey areas from this.
Hit the head you're off.
We will have a few games of 12 on 12, it might be fun, and eventually they might learn. OR we need to just let everything go.
This current hybrid sport of fastidious officials in one moment to laissez faire the next is unacceptable.
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@Bones said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@MiketheSnow said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
In my day, an M-1 or M-2 had to go across the chest of the ‘missed’ player, not his arse
Christ that's not been the case since I started playing, so you're going back more than 40 years to justify this incident?
I’m not trying to justify this incident
I’m trying to get a sense of what the officials are looking at
@MiketheSnow said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@Bones said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@MiketheSnow said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
In my day, an M-1 or M-2 had to go across the chest of the ‘missed’ player, not his arse
Christ that's not been the case since I started playing, so you're going back more than 40 years to justify this incident?
I’m not trying to justify this incident
I’m trying to get a sense of what the officials are looking at
Prolly didn't have television let alone replays to help with decisions way back then.
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lets extend that logic then, either they're all off or none off?
All off - early 2023 interpretations effectively - was massively unpopular as it punished an always high lethal clothes line to the face in the same way it punished an accidental, drop in height passive collision. Most of the unpopularity came from the SH from memory, particularly Aus.
None off - Always high, loads of time shot to the face which knocks a player out gets a yellow. No incentive not to tackle high, no attempt to deal with the concussion issue in rugby etc.
Personally I wouldn't like to see it, as rugby is a dynamic contact sport and an accident or nothing incident can spoil a game. I also think we have to try and deal with the concussion issue.
Therefore that doesn't feel realistic or desirable to me. Mitigation is crucial, clarity in decision making is crucial. Some disagreement is inevitable so we're stuck with it IMO
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@antipodean I'm more concerned with the fact the TMO had all that time to look at it, made his call and it was deemed wrong.
Does he get sanctioned for that? I mean in terms of his job, that is almighty fuck-up, and as some have said, while we will never know, it has potentially impacted the outcome of the game.
Credibility of the sport continues to fall.
@taniwharugby said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
I'm more concerned with the fact the TMO had all that time to look at it, made his call and it was deemed wrong.
This. There was a Yellow & Review so they must have been 100% sure. It didn't look a Red to me but the TMO and the Ref decided on a Red so that was that.
Complete fuck-up in an event designed to grow the game in the US.
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@taniwharugby said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@antipodean I'm more concerned with the fact the TMO had all that time to look at it, made his call and it was deemed wrong.
Does he get sanctioned for that? I mean in terms of his job, that is almighty fuck-up, and as some have said, while we will never know, it has potentially impacted the outcome of the game.
Credibility of the sport continues to fall.
It is a joke. In this case, I thought a YC looked about right, but by the letter of the law and recent interpretation, it should be a RC.
There has to be a system that allows the game to flow with some penalty for the player, but doesn't ruin the event for fans.
I think I've settled on a YC for all of these, with the player replaced after 10 mins.
If you are out of replacements, you can't send another out.
@gt12 said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
There has to be a system that allows the game to flow with some penalty for the player, but doesn't ruin the event for fans.
I thought that was a Yellow with a Review.
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@gt12 said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
There has to be a system that allows the game to flow with some penalty for the player, but doesn't ruin the event for fans.
I thought that was a Yellow with a Review.
@Victor-Meldrew said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
@gt12 said in Ireland v All Blacks - Chicago2:
There has to be a system that allows the game to flow with some penalty for the player, but doesn't ruin the event for fans.
I thought that was a Yellow with a Review.
This could push World Rugby to adopting it. Realistically, that would be a nice start.
