What a fucking champ, showing up the ridiculously incompetent officials.
"I didn't expect the ball. I was hoping that Cam would have played the other option, and he (Beirne) had no option I mean, he didn't intentionally put a shoulder on me so...I can't hide from the fact that I copped a shoulder to... somewhere up there (his head) ... that's what happened. I'll support him in terms of mitigating whatever happens next because I don't feel there's any intention there, it was just unfortunate."
If they accept it’s unintentional they have to admit there is a lot of unintentional head contact in rugby.. soft helmets have to reduce the impact significantly.could that be next.
To me it’s like riding a motor cycle….is the risk worth the elation….and if you decide it is, you go for it.
Punishing unintentional head contact doesn't make the game safer. This incident shows that the officials lack even the most basic understanding of the dynamics of a contact sport. These incidents should be reviewed not in slow mo, but at normal speed. Then you can clearly see there is no way on earth Beirne could have done anything other than what he did. He simply didn't have time. One split second he is watching Roigard, the next he follows the pass and Beauden is right in his face. Let Mr Red Card in the Review Bunker show us how he avoids that.
That was a pathetic red
Letter of the law - no common sense applies
These rules aren’t there for safety….they are there for law suits, to show every precaution was taken.