A yellow card for unintentional reckless play would have sufficed. His foot is above his waist, and he does kick outward.
Thank goodness we had the new red card law in effect. If one team loses a player for 60 minutes it's pretty much game over.
Yep, it's a good law.
Hey JW are you trying to reform your poor i mage by posing as that rare commodity an honest Kiwi.
Hehehehe. What a slippery eel you are JW ! Note I said eel!
How come you don't support Rassie's attempt to clean up the game JW. You speak with forked eel tongue!
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Beeno, please keep your trumpet blowing down below in the dark recesses of "Beeno's Trumpet". In the meantime we all extend our sympathy for the phycological issues that you face. You will over come.... well maybe not overcome but perhaps confront.... well maybe not confront but at least suppress. One must remain optimistic!
I see Jordie planted his boot very coolly in that poor guys face.
Had it been a Bok it would have been 6 months suspension.
Beeno, no Boks player could get his boot that high
The All Blacks did win the 2019 karaoke championship with their dancing and high kicks.
Pakie
Kicking a person in the face at any stage in a game is a red card offence - whether you like it or not..
There's a difference between kicking and accidental connection with an advancing player while you're trying to keep your balance coming down from fielding a high ball.
Pakie
Coming down like that is a physical impossibility. In the past the fielders when catching balls had their knee up and bended not the leg straight at the face or body of incoming players. The way Barrett did it was intentional and has never seen anybody doing what Barrett did in any game.
You tend not to see a lot of things, Mike.
Funny, he didn't think Kolbe had intent when he wiped out that Lion in midair. Certainly didn't think that was worthy of a red. Funny thing, bias.
Ou Maaik gets even more egg all over his stupid face as Jordie Barrett's red card is rescinded.
LMAO!
See they let him off further sanctions and took red card off his list by saying his boot "inadvertently"arrived in the Wallabies face.
Law 9.11 states that a player must do nothing reckless.
It was reckless....whether he meant it or not.
Well, the system worked. Who could possibly disagree
The only possible decision that could be made as it was entirely accidental.
The ref and TMO seemed to make that decision in about 20 seconds, which astounded me given they piss about so much pontificating if a pass was forward or not!!
that was definitely deliberate by Jordy. There was no reason to lead with the foot as players are protected in the air.
The same is said of ball carriers using the fore arm against the tackler. Matfield and several other players use to use the fore arm as a defence which is dangerous.
I'm also glad rucking has been removed from the game, but there are some people that still wants it around.
He should have gotten at least an 8 weak ban. Made contact to the face with the boot.
Again, just shows you what a circus world rugby has become.
Further, you don't see this type of jumping happening in Ausie rules and never see player actually kick out their feet untless they want to hurt another player.
Aussie rule players always jump with one knee up but the foot remains next to the knee to protect players when competing for the ball.
Rugby needs to wake up an start drawing in some new ideas of how the high ball can be more contestable
plausible deniability.
I think it was an accident, however my understanding is that this law is unequivocal in that if you kick someone in the face while in the air you get penalised.
If a player makes a high tackle, they get penalised, even if it is by accident.
(Even when someone ducks at the last second causing the high tackle).
Kicking in the face is an instant red. Although perhaps a yellow could be considered if the ref thought it, was an accident.
No further action would be taken after the game if it is accepted as an accident. If it were decided to be intentional there would be a ban for a certain amount of time.
Hello Plum??? Are you there??
Has the lead broken in your pencil perhaps?
