Watch how these are issued. The ref and his assistant making all the decisions on the field, not one string of endless replays needed. Contrast this to the Stormers game the other night where we had like 4 or 5 minutes of watching damn replays at one point in order to make one decision.
Rugby is caught up in a rat’s nest of rules. Tackling a man in the air when he has jumped, ball in hand, is a classic case….reaching beyond the ball on the deck is another….penalizing a collapsed scrum when the ball is available is another.
Way too many rules..,and there needs to be a simple division of labor between the video ref and the ref on the field….right now it’s a committee. And the last thing we need is yet another level of reffing.. beyond the video ref.
They're attempting to micromanage the chaos of a contact sport by committee, yes. It is not serving the game, the players or the spectators.
It's not so much the use of technology or that fact they're slowing the game down that bothers me.
It's that they they're still so inconsistent with their calls despite the use of technology.
Like sending Moerat off last week for "intention".
...so we're now in thought crime territory.
It's that they they're still so inconsistent with their calls despite these of technology.
Yep.
I'm becoming like Mike with my typos.