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After watching it again I think it was a red. At the time I said probably yellow but at a second time of watching I realised how ****ing reckless Payne was, if you are second to the ball then you have to accept that, Goode has got there miles before Payne but Payne keeps running through Goode. It's not even close as Goode leaves the ground and catches the ball Payne doesn't need to keep going, I've seen in the past a player jump very late and the player manages to stop himself and tackle the player when their feet hit the ground. The only reason people are talking about this not being a red is because Ulster are upset they lost at home and by only 2 points to sarries who had a man more. Ulster fans want too look at the ref to the reason they lost the game, but it isn't !! Jared Payne is the reason you lost the game, no one else, not the ref who followed the letter of the law and it ain't Goode for jumping in the air to catch the high ball. Yes you were unlucky in the sense that you had a ref with a backbone and not someone like Barnes who would have ****** himself and said yellow. I don't think Garces is a particularly good referee but I give him credit too give the correct call against the home team knowing that he would get grief the whole game and have ravenhill shouting at everything they thought wasn't right. He didn't once mention the injury when talking to payne, from what I heard, he just kept saying the player was tackled in the air. I could complain how we didn't have our best full back the rest of the game who is very important to our gameplan, or the fact that Taylor went off injured early on so our backline was 10.Farrell 12.Hodgson 13.Barritt so we didn't have any punch to get past your backline(who defended bloody well). Both teams had injuries, Best and Pienaar are unlucky, Payne was not unlucky he was ****ing lucky that Goode got up afterwards 


EDIT watching again on youtube Garces does say Goode's head comes into contact with the ground, either saying that he's flip the player in the air or taking into account the injury


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