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@pakman said in NH International Rugby:
@junior said in NH International Rugby:
@gibbonrib said in NH International Rugby:
@sparky said in NH International Rugby:
@gibbonrib Neither try should have stood as the brilliant Nigel Owens explains clearly and simply here:
'It's 100 per cent a knock on!' Nigel Owens explains exactly why Wales v England ref Pascal Gauzere got BOTH tries wrong | Wales Online
There has been a huge debate over the scores by Josh Adams and Liam Williams in the Triple Crown-clinching victory at the Principality Stadium
Nigel Owens believes neither of Wales’ first two tries in their Triple Crown-clinching victory over England should have stood. There was huge controversy over the first-half touchdowns from Josh Adams and Liam Williams during the 40-24 win for Wayne Pivac’s men at the Principality Stadium.
Now World Cup final referee Owens has delivered his verdict on both of them.
The first came on 16 minutes when fly-half Dan Biggar put in a pinpoint cross-kick for winger Adams to score out on the left.
That provoked a furious response from England captain Owen Farrell who argued with referee Pascal Gauzere that his team hadn’t been given sufficient time to re-set after Farrell had passed on a warning to them about too many penalties.
But Gauzere rejected Farrell’s complaints and awarded the try.
Giving his thoughts, Welshman Owens said: “It’s an interesting one.
“The referee clearly says ‘Time on’, so then Biggar is quite entitled to do what he does quickly.
“But I think Owen Farrell’s point here is correct.
“If you are asking the captain to speak to his team, I certainly wouldn’t restart time until I have given them time to line up in defence.
“The only reason they are in a huddle under the posts is you have told the captain to speak to his players and he puts time off for them to do that.
“So, you can’t put time back on then while they are still in the huddle.
“You are not giving them the time to line up to defend. It’s an unfair advantage.
“I would have allowed them to reset before I put time on. It’s only fair that you do that because you have asked them to go in the huddle in the first place.”
The second contentious Wales try came on 29 minutes when the officials decided there had not been a knock on by Louis Rees-Zammit ahead of full-back Liam Williams touching down.
But Owens views the incident in a different light.
“It was definitely a knock on,” he said, elaborating on the points he made on S4C.
“You see situations sometimes where a player loses control of a ball and then kicks it before it hits the ground. Well, that’s still classed as a knock on.
“What the law says is if a player loses control of the ball forward, he must regain possession of it before it touches the ground or anybody else.
“So, in this case, Rees-Zammit definitely touches the ball and it travels forward on to his calf, then goes backwards and then comes off an England player.
“So it has travelled forward off his hand first and he fails to regain possession of it, which means it’s a knock on.
“If it hits his hand and goes backwards, then it’s play on.
“But it hits his hand, the ball is still travelling forward and then it hits his calf and goes backwards.
“So, in law, he loses control of the ball forward and then fails to regain possession of it before it touches the ground or anybody else, so it’s a knock on.
“If anybody wants an answer on it, look at Rees-Zammit’s face when they award the try.
“It’s 100 per cent a knock on.
Listening to the TMO, he says he doesn’t see the ball go forward.
“That sounds to me like he doesn’t think the ball touched the hand.
“But when you look at it, it has definitely touched Rees-Zammit’s hand.
“If you lose control of the ball forward, you must regain possession of it for it not to be a knock on.
“It’s irrelevant that it’s gone backwards off his calf. The fact is it’s gone forward first before that. That is the key in that decision.
“Even if it went laterally down, it’s a knock on.”
Owens concluded: “So, to me, those two tries shouldn’t stand.”
Owens doesn't say the first try shouldn't have stood - he says that he would have refereed it differently. Those are different things. He actually says Biggar is entitled to kick for the try. I don't disagree the ref made a mess of it, but England contributed to it too. If I was May on the left wing of be furious at my teammates for lack of attention.
For the second one, Nige has just got the rule wrong. It talks about loss of posession, not loss of control - different things. Don't know why he works make that mistake, enjoying retirement I guess.
Interesting. Reading his comments this is the key one for me (although he took a while to get there):
So, in law, he loses control of the ball forward and then fails to regain possession of it before it touches the ground or anybody else, so it’s a knock on
If that's the rule, then I think it's probably a knock on. However, this makes me immediately think of a situation where a player loses control forward, but then before it hits the ground he tries to regain possession but ends up batting it backwards before it hits the ground. Under Nige's interpretation, would this be a knock on. He lost control forward and then doesn't regain control before it hits the ground (even though the ball is moving backward immediately before contact).
To my mind IF the ball, when it came off LRZ's calf, had travelled 5 yards backwards and then bounced there'd have been no knock on.
In this case he first nudges the ball forward at the goal line end of the five yard line bissecting the 22 line. After the ball hits his calf it hits the leg of an English player about one metre closer to the goal line than the end of said five yard line. So between his first touch and contact with something else, it travelled one metre forward.
No way it can be construed as anything but a knock on.
Entirely true. However, Owen Farrell. I’m ok with the decision
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@catogrande said in NH International Rugby:
@bones said in NH International Rugby:
That looks rather gopping Mike. Primark by any chance?
and there’s only one
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I'm actually happy for the first try to stand. Penalty. Get back, fan out. Prepare for everything. One less part of the game that is faffing about. And, a real penalty for a red zone infringement.
The 2nd definitely doesn't pass the pub test, and if it was against a team i was supporting i would be blowing up delux.
Good to see tries scored by heads up play, and actively trying to put pace in the game.
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@catogrande said in NH International Rugby:
@bones said in NH International Rugby:
That looks rather gopping Mike. Primark by any chance?
That thar is them French Jewels.
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@gt12 said in NH International Rugby:
@gibbonrib said in NH International Rugby:
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@gibbonrib said in NH International Rugby:
not what happened
Qué?
"The player drops it, it travels forward" is not a complete description of what happened. You need to know what happens after to determine if it's a knock-on.
Yes, if he caught it or not. Did he?
I actually bolded this above for you too . Did you miss it?
Did you read the bit in the rules saying it has to go forward at the point he loses possession for it to count as a knock on? And that it's unclear at what point he loses possession?
By your simplified criteria then yes, it would be a knock-on. I've pointed out that actual rules, for better or worse, are a lot less simple (and less clear) than your interpretation.
It's not simplified, it's the way the law is meant to be interpreted, according to the definition of a knock-on, as explained by Nigel Owens.
BTW, he never has possession, so the more relevant part of the definition of the law is (I expect @Damo to show up and point this out at some point):
When a player loses possession of the ball and it goes forward, orwhen a player hits the ball forward with the hand or arm,or when the ball hits the hand or arm and goes forward,and the ball touches the ground or another player before the original player can catch it.On the replay (36 seconds in), he doesn't ever actually get possession, he knocks it forward trying to catch it. The fact that he knocks it forward onto his leg, and then bounces backwards doesn't matter. What does matter is that he doesn't catch it before the ball touches the ground.
I'm a bit late to the party. Still in cricket mode really.
I have now had a look at the replay. I think it's a knock on because it looks to me like it went forward, and the player has continued moving and then it's gone into the players leg and then went backwards. There is no momentum rule regarding a knockon.
However I don't think it is a deadset knockon that cannot be argued. I think it is a little closer than some on here are suggesting. The ball does strike the players leg behind where he first touched the ball relative to his body (but forward in terms of relative to the pitch).
In other words I think it should have been a knockon but I am not getting my pitchfork out.
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Do they have soft signals over in the NH?
Without seeing the whole of the footage; I wonder if what happened is the ref let it go, then the player scored and the TMO had to find clear and obvious footage to show it wasn't a try. He didn't feel able to do so, and so awarded the try.
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@damo said in NH International Rugby:
Do they have soft signals over in the NH?
Without seeing the whole of the footage; I wonder if what happened is the ref let it go, then the player scored and the TMO had to find clear and obvious footage to show it wasn't a try. He didn't feel able to do so, and so awarded the try.
On field decision try. Interesting to contemplate the TMZo’s response to, ‘Is that a try?’.
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@bones said in NH International Rugby:
In other news. Stage equipment missing, Welsh captain under investigation.
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@catogrande said in NH International Rugby:
@bones said in NH International Rugby:
In other news. Stage equipment missing, Welsh captain under investigation.
"Alun! Aluuun! That's the wrong way!"
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Pascal Gauzere admits errors with Welsh tries
Referee Pascal Gauzere has admitted that he got it wrong after awarding two controversial tries for Wales against England in the Six Nations on Saturday.
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@billy-tell said in NH International Rugby:
Referee Pascal Gauzere has admitted that he got it wrong after awarding two controversial tries for Wales against England in the Six Nations on Saturday.
so he does nothing of the sort, some other shit ref does it for him, and says "oh i talked to him on the phone"
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The Gallic Shrug must be a great way to avoid consequences. Two appalling decisions resulting in tries, shrug Le frog, just ref the next game. As coach break your covid bubble and fuck over the entire 6 nations program, c'est la vie, no problems
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@machpants said in NH International Rugby:
The Gallic Shrug must be a great way to avoid consequences. Two appalling decisions resulting in tries, shrug Le frog, just ref the next game. As coach break your covid bubble and fuck over the entire 6 nations program, c'est la vie, no problems
I have absolutely no problem with the first decision. The ref, other team and crowd shouldn't have to wait for the defenders to finish their conference, rehydrate, receive coaching messages, get their heart rates down and get into position.
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@junior said in NH International Rugby:
@bones said in NH International Rugby:
@junior said in NH International Rugby:
@bones said in NH International Rugby:
French refs need to be banished from rugby. That's atrocious.
How so? Hits his hands then his leg and goes backward into an English player.
It clearly went forward. He dropped it. His own shrug when it was awarded says it all.
Pretty funny to see it happen to England after the lions bullshit though.
I know he he dropped it but it hit his leg and went backwards and then hit an Englishman before it hit the ground. Under the laws of rugby union football I’m pretty sure that’s not a knock on. The issue you’re really complaining about it is the use of a video ref because if there’s no TMO then there’s no way that’s anything but a knock on
At the risk of doing a me ...
... it went forward from his hands and same player didn't catch it = knock on
But I really expect that's been discussed since the weeknd
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@majorrage said in NH International Rugby:
@bones said in NH International Rugby:
It is. No other sport comes close to being as up it's own arse.
You really don't watch much golf do you?
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@bones said in NH International Rugby:
@sparky said in NH International Rugby:
Another dreadful interview by this horrible person. Shame, I thought the BBC coverage of this game otherwise was faultless.
Sonja McLaughlin? Turd.
Beanie. Anti wimnim bully.
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@gibbonrib said in NH International Rugby:
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@bones said in NH International Rugby:
@junior it went forward. Or was he standing still?
I can’t be assed to check, but it hit the ground closer to English goal line than when it left his hands can we all agree it was forward?
It depends... are knock-ons defined the same way as forward-passes are now?
ie: "forward out of the hands"
If yes - then I can understand the decision.
If not - then I can not.Nope, I'm pretty sure it's still defined as "towards the opposition's dead ball line"
The critical part of the law, as I read it, is whether the player has "lost possession of the ball" (not "lost control"). If a player drops it they haven't necessarily lost possession (otherwise just about every kick from hand would be a knock on). Posession is defined as "a team or individual in control of the ball or who are attempting to bring it under control". So you could argue that LRZ was still attempting to bring the ball under control at least until it hit his leg, in which case no knock-on.
Having said that, I was pretty surprised it was allowed to stand..
@GibbonRib "joined 2 days ago"?
Are ou the username previously known as "GibbonRib"? Welcome back.
