[RWC2023] France vs New Zealand (08/09/2023)

[Booboobang]

France being in the driving seat despite a few of their key guys in ramos, dupont etc.. not having their best games reads well for their tournament.

 

[Lé Ddanno]

Do we really need to tell the players a card isn't getting upgraded?

.....yes
Arguably more important than telling the spectators

 

[IT157]

Yeah Dupont not having the best game.

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

.....yes?

Why? Just say this player is getting a yellow, if it gets upgraded to a red you will be informed.

 

[Crash Hamster]

No timer clock for the yellow card? This coverage is going to the dogs.

 

[Pieter Steph du Teague]

Why? Just say this player is getting a yellow, if it gets upgraded to a red you will be informed.

This is just such a non-issue. What possible harm is being done by briefly informing the players that the decision has been made?

 

[Lé Ddanno]

Why? Just say this player is getting a yellow, if it gets upgraded to a red you will be informed.

Because 10 minutes is quite a lot less than say 68 minutes and a team will adjust somewhat

 

[IT157]

Important for France to get something on the board during that yellow

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

This is just such a non-issue. What possible harm is being done by briefly informing the players that the decision has been made?

It just seems clunky to me. I don't think it's that big of a deal but it just feels odd to me.

 

[Lé Ddanno]

No timer clock for the yellow card? This coverage is going to the dogs.

Leave the dogs out of this, ITV is hot garbage

 

[General Melchett]

SA v Ireland final looking good.

 

[Lé Ddanno]

It just seems clunky to me. I don't think it's that big of a deal but it just feels odd to me.

It only happens in a stoppage anyway, it's no different to a captain asking the ref for a bit of clarification over scrum/breakdown pens to me and, again, if someone gets a yellow when there's more than 10 left in a match, I'd want to know if they're offski for the rest of it

 

[BPM]

Mad to think Flament played 10 for Loughborough 3rds or something like that …

 

[TRF_stormer2010]

French flirting with the offside line cleverly not allowing NZ to get anything going.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Is the ball ****? Looks wobbly

 

[Lé Ddanno]

Is the ball ****? Looks wobbly

That's Peyper's head

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

It only happens in a stoppage anyway, it's no different to a captain asking the ref for a bit of clarification over scrum/breakdown pens to me and, again, if someone gets a yellow when there's more than 10 left in a match, I'd want to know if they're offski for the rest of it

Yeah and you'd tell them if they were upgraded to a red

 

[Crash Hamster]

It only happens in a stoppage anyway, it's no different to a captain asking the ref for a bit of clarification over scrum/breakdown pens to me and, again, if someone gets a yellow when there's more than 10 left in a match, I'd want to know if they're offski for the rest of it

But you would know as soon as it's been upgraded.

Seems a waste of time to me to be dragging the captains over and going 'that yellow card we issued? It was a yellow card.'

 

[Saintjay]

That ball keeps popping out of contact like a buttered baby down a water slide.

 

[Booboobang]

Mad to think Flament played 10 for Loughborough 3rds or something like that …

Such an interesting story. Grew up in belgium before coming to england for university, before going to france. Not many players with a rugby education in belgium bobbing around the international game.