France v Argentina - 22/11/2024 (20.10)

[dirty harry]

Even if you disagree with the laws of physics existing on a rugby pitch (absolutely your right to do so, unless you're a ref), you can't really deny that deliberately knocking the ball out of the field of play is illegal, surely?

I'm the one who disagrees with the laws of physics? World rugby is the one claiming balls that 100% go backwards are knock ons and go forwards lol.

But to your point, it was always a penalty try and yellow, a 1 handed slap of a ball about to be caught by a try scorers, either backwards into touch or backwards dead is still an offence. I couldn't understand why the ref was saying it was OK if backwards, because it was still a slap down (and yes I know his hands were pointing forwards and slightly up).

My over arching point is over complication of the game in a time the game is struggling world wide. If a new fan watched the game last night, listening to ball being knocked forward, their eyes confirming it went backwards etc, yellow cards and red cards being thrown around at record rates, with their severity changing...

It doesn't help

 

[AlRums]

It is interesting because I thought at first the referee was nice to the argentinans, implying that the ball was going backward...but finally seeing the video, he made the right decision, clearly the ball was blatlantly knock forward (this is all about the hand)

I've been looking at the knock on laws and nowhere is there any definition of hand direction. The ball must go FORWARD, in this case it clearly went backwards.

This was nothing like the deliberate knock on from LCD against Scotland a few years ago where he slapped the ball forward and out with both hands.

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