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Refereeing, officiating, and the way the game is controlled!
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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 747770" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>This whole business from the media over the TMO issue is just a beat up. They just want to sensationalise it to fill column-inches and sell papers, and most importantly, of course, they conveniently don't report the really good things the TMO protocols do (which I will give an example of later) for the simple reason that it will get in the way of the story they are trying to make up.</p><p></p><p>While I agree that Jaco Peyper didn't use the TMO very efficiently, I don't think it is really his fault. Its probably the one of the first times he's used it, while the NH referees have used it the Pro 12 and the RWC warm-up games (did Peyper referee any of those?).</p><p></p><p>As I said earlier, there was a really a good example of one of the ways the Hawkeye system is supposed to work yesterday in the South Africa v Japan match. There had been a potential neck grab by a Japanese cleaner outer. Jerome Garces, <u>without stopping</u>, asked TMO Graeme Hughes to have a look at it. A few seconds later, Hughes calls back <em>"Jerome, it was around the shoulder nothing in it, you should play on". </em>When used this way, it works really well. Anyone at the ground will be none the wiser that a piece of play has been checked, those of us watching on TV (and listening) will know, but because the TMO checked it off screen, there was no interruption to the flow of the game.</p><p></p><p>You won't find that reported in any newspapers, for the obvious reason that it won't help the sports jocks cast the protocols in a bad light.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 747770, member: 20605"] This whole business from the media over the TMO issue is just a beat up. They just want to sensationalise it to fill column-inches and sell papers, and most importantly, of course, they conveniently don't report the really good things the TMO protocols do (which I will give an example of later) for the simple reason that it will get in the way of the story they are trying to make up. While I agree that Jaco Peyper didn't use the TMO very efficiently, I don't think it is really his fault. Its probably the one of the first times he's used it, while the NH referees have used it the Pro 12 and the RWC warm-up games (did Peyper referee any of those?). As I said earlier, there was a really a good example of one of the ways the Hawkeye system is supposed to work yesterday in the South Africa v Japan match. There had been a potential neck grab by a Japanese cleaner outer. Jerome Garces, [U]without stopping[/U], asked TMO Graeme Hughes to have a look at it. A few seconds later, Hughes calls back [I]"Jerome, it was around the shoulder nothing in it, you should play on". [/I]When used this way, it works really well. Anyone at the ground will be none the wiser that a piece of play has been checked, those of us watching on TV (and listening) will know, but because the TMO checked it off screen, there was no interruption to the flow of the game. You won't find that reported in any newspapers, for the obvious reason that it won't help the sports jocks cast the protocols in a bad light. [/QUOTE]
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