Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 891857" data-attributes="member: 56232">The thing is there is a difference between a ref simply misreading a situation and awarding the penalty the wrong way and a ref completely arbitrarily deciding to award a penalty when he sees the team is going to concede. There are 3 times a ref can call play back to an earlier infringement:1 - Playing advantage. The ref must call the penalty and then call advantage to do this2 - Checking for foul play3 - If the assistant ref flags up something the ref missed.In the Care intercept Owens warned Launchbury and Launchbury responded. Owens told him he was ok and did not award a penalty nor call advantage. There was no foul play and the assistant didn&#039;t make a call as Owens had seen it. Owens then decides the next phase that he has changed his mind and decided it actually was a penalty. A ref cannot change their mind like that after play has moved on if none of the above conditions are met. If as Owens says &quot;the damage was done&quot; then he should have given a penalty and played advantage but he didn&#039;t do it. If the Welsh could whinge to the WRU about their try being disallowed (there was a knockon anyway) then we are within our rights to also ask for clarification of a ref deciding to award a penalty after saying it wasn&#039;t a penalty with no new evidence.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 891857, member: 56232"] The thing is there is a difference between a ref simply misreading a situation and awarding the penalty the wrong way and a ref completely arbitrarily deciding to award a penalty when he sees the team is going to concede. There are 3 times a ref can call play back to an earlier infringement: 1 - Playing advantage. The ref must call the penalty and then call advantage to do this 2 - Checking for foul play 3 - If the assistant ref flags up something the ref missed. In the Care intercept Owens warned Launchbury and Launchbury responded. Owens told him he was ok and did not award a penalty nor call advantage. There was no foul play and the assistant didn't make a call as Owens had seen it. Owens then decides the next phase that he has changed his mind and decided it actually was a penalty. A ref cannot change their mind like that after play has moved on if none of the above conditions are met. If as Owens says "the damage was done" then he should have given a penalty and played advantage but he didn't do it. If the Welsh could whinge to the WRU about their try being disallowed (there was a knockon anyway) then we are within our rights to also ask for clarification of a ref deciding to award a penalty after saying it wasn't a penalty with no new evidence. [/QUOTE]

Verification