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Rugby World Cup 2015
Refereeing, officiating, and the way the game is controlled!
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<blockquote data-quote="ABs2015" data-source="post: 747148" data-attributes="member: 73115"><p>I'm not sure how you come to that conclusion. It is certainly an issue, hence why so many are talking about it. I think what you have done is highlight a separate issue, that of the inconsistency of rule interpretation across referees. That's a complicated one, but if you heard Steve Hansen talk this week he was basically saying that is something that can't be avoided. What he was asking for was consistency within matches. He accepted there will not be consistency across matches.</p><p></p><p>In terms of using the TMO "fully" I think that is a recipe for disaster. 80 minutes of rugby will take an eternity. And then how much of that 80 minutes will be meaningless because we have to keep going back to incidents minutes earlier and subsequently penalties awarded? So what will then start happening is play clocks will have to be reset to when the original penalty occurred and the game will take even longer. I'm sorry but I just can not see how that will work. It will either have to go to a challenge system(like NFL) or we just need to accept that there will be human error and stuff that goes unnoticed in live action. The latter is my preference with TMO involvement for serious foul play and overlooked errors in the direct lead to tries scored. Anything more an IMO we are seriously changing the way the game is both played and viewed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ABs2015, post: 747148, member: 73115"] I'm not sure how you come to that conclusion. It is certainly an issue, hence why so many are talking about it. I think what you have done is highlight a separate issue, that of the inconsistency of rule interpretation across referees. That's a complicated one, but if you heard Steve Hansen talk this week he was basically saying that is something that can't be avoided. What he was asking for was consistency within matches. He accepted there will not be consistency across matches. In terms of using the TMO "fully" I think that is a recipe for disaster. 80 minutes of rugby will take an eternity. And then how much of that 80 minutes will be meaningless because we have to keep going back to incidents minutes earlier and subsequently penalties awarded? So what will then start happening is play clocks will have to be reset to when the original penalty occurred and the game will take even longer. I'm sorry but I just can not see how that will work. It will either have to go to a challenge system(like NFL) or we just need to accept that there will be human error and stuff that goes unnoticed in live action. The latter is my preference with TMO involvement for serious foul play and overlooked errors in the direct lead to tries scored. Anything more an IMO we are seriously changing the way the game is both played and viewed. [/QUOTE]
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