Scotland Lose But Isn't It Their Fault Rather Than An 'dodgy' Decision By The Ref?

Mampara | 21:22 Sun 18th Oct 2015 | Sport

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We are all disappointed that there are no Northern Hemisphere
Teams through to final but I wish we wouldn't always fall
back to blaming the referees.

Can anyone explain why the late penalty in the Scottish
match was 'wrong' ?

They Don't Like It Up 'em

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ichkeria

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08:34 Tue 20th Oct 2015

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ToraToraTora

a penalty is awarded for a lot of things beside foul play.

MargoTester

Google 'when can TMO be used in rugby' it explains it there(sorry can't do links)

Mampara

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I agree with TTT. If the Scots hadn't made a botch of the lineout
on their throw, but just retained the ball in the ensuing ruck there
wouldn't have been this problem.
I'm not sure if a referral to the TMO is within the protocol but the ref
could/should have consulted his assistant referee ( I still call them
linesmen!)

ToraToraTora

offside is not foul play, there are many things that are penalty offences that are not foul play.

Quizmonster

"If the Scots hadn't made a botch of the lineout... there wouldn't have been this problem."
What relevance does that have? One might as well say in other ciscumstances, "If Player A hadn't kneed Played B in the groin, there wouldn't have been a penalty."
Only the facts matter and Gromit provided them in the opening answer to this thread.

Mampara

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I meant to say that if they had won their own throw in &
then held it in the ensuing MAUL (not ruck) .......

ichkeria

The referee got it wrong, but he does not deserve the abuse he was getting, and certainly not the bottles tossed in his direction.
He could only go to the TMO if he judged the offence to be deliberate, and he did not. He was probably correct in that.
Of course the law will be changed: too late for Scotland, but we've been begging referees to take more decisions themselves in this World Cup: here at least was an occasion were the ref felt obliged to do that.
If he'd NOT called offside and it had proved to have been so, then the Australians would have been out to get him.