You might wanna check the laws of the game. They say nothing about controlled grounding. He was touching the ball and exerted downward pressure when the ball touched the in-goal. That's a try.
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[2017 RBS Six Nations] Round 2: France vs Scotland (12/02/2017)
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I'm far from convinced by that he's lost control on 4 out of 5 digits and the last digit I'm not convinced he kept contact right until grounding. For decision like that you have to be certain the grounding was clean.
It's Jaco Peyper, his failure to ref the Ireland New Zealand match in Dublin directly resulted in the new high tackle laws. The guys a joke.
How has Scotland not been yellow carded at the scrum yet?
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I think Peyper is going to ref one of the Lions tests.*Shudders at the thought*.
Peyper realised, in the warmup, that he left his cards in the hotel room and he's trying his best not to let his boss cotton on to the fact.
22.1 Grounding the ball
Grounding the ball
There are two ways a player can ground the ball:
(a) Player touches the ground with the ball. A player grounds the ball by holding the ball and touching the ground with it, in in-goal. ‘Holding’ means holding in the hand or hands, or in the arm or arms. No downward pressure is required.
I'm convinced one finger can classify as holding either.
Grounding the ball
There are two ways a player can ground the ball:
(a) Player touches the ground with the ball. A player grounds the ball by holding the ball and touching the ground with it, in in-goal. ‘Holding’ means holding in the hand or hands, or in the arm or arms. No downward pressure is required.
I'm convinced one finger can classify as holding either.
England only unbeaten team now!
#ScotlandGrandslam
We'll remain that way in 5 weeks too #arrogance
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France deserved that, on another day they could have won by a score or more.
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A deserved French win against a very talented Scots side. I'd have probably given the pinky try. Absorbing match even though the defences were on top.
Takes a good few foreigners to bring back that French flair we all know and love
and whose provinces + national team are coached by foreigners. Funny.
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Boy do I like it when they play Top 14 games at Stade de France :lol:
Weakest burn of the weekend goes to.......
I'm hoping based on this game we can take France at home. Good attacking intent but they should have won that game by more. They were too inaccurate at times. Wales in Cardiff is very daunting though.
Scotland are better than many think. You couldn't beat them remember.
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"Scotland beat us pretty handily and just lost to France so we'll beat France, no drama"
what I like about this 6N game even with no Top 14 on Fra can still conjure up a good old league tussle. Johnnie Gray should have warned his mates though. Think the French players miss their club now. That was just a rehearsal for the next Top 14 Day.
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Mmmm I'm really not ****ting on your performance or trying to, because it's nice to see France back playing attacking rugby, but we had a horrible day at the office last day and were away from home. If we in any way play to potential we should win. Scots absolutely deserved to win against us, but you'd have to think we won't be letting many more players stroll through our line outs for tries. Scotlnd have some good players, especially in the backrow, ten and fullback but they still have an awful scrum, a fairly poor lineout, and an approach to the breakdown which has been at best at the edge of the law, and at worst blatantly illegal for the past two weeks, which I imagine most refs will pick up on before long.
I'm far from expecting a walkover in Dublin, but we're at home and due a reaction if we have any chance of competing for the Championship.
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I know you really don't like Ireland, but beaten handily? Pull the other one would you?
You just need to get yourself a ref in the Jaco Peyper mould. And you're home and dry.
I will never say anything bad again about the 6N if Fra can produce again Top 14 form full of flair panache garlic and beaujolais nouveau.
I will never say anything bad again about the 6N if Fra can produce again Top 14 form full of flair panache garlic and beaujolais nouveau.
