Refereeing decisions

[Major Tom]

Cowards

 

[Sword of Justice]

For some reason it is back up on the Rugby World Cup official page.

 

[Strewthcobber]

A few phone calls pinging around WR (World Rugby) HQ lol

 

[Pfitzy]

Refereeing decisions: many in the Wallaroos game vs USA. So. Many.

 

[John S]

Refereeing decisions: many in the Wallaroos game vs USA. So. Many.

There were a few weren't there.

 

[Pfitzy]

There were a few weren't there.

More broadly: I don't think I've seen obstruction called at a maul once this whole tournament.

 

[John S]

No, I haven't seen it in the two Wallaroos games I watched. I noticed too, but I've now forgotten what it was, but there was something called in the US game that I don't often see called in the Men's game. I'm going to have to re-watch it to find out what it was.

 

[Pfitzy]

15 minutes into Wallaroos v England.

Referee finally found England's offside line

WR (World Rugby) needs to sink a lot of money into female officiating support. This RWC has been pretty ordinary, all things considered

 

[Pfitzy]

I've been trying to find time to watch the whole game. This morning I managed the last 10 minutes of the first half and I won't watch any more.

From minute 34 onward there were some absolute shockers IMHO. England don't really need the help. Nevertheless...

 

[Strewthcobber]

I've been trying to find time to watch the whole game. This morning I managed the last 10 minutes of the first half and I won't watch any more.

From minute 34 onward there were some absolute shockers IMHO. England don't really need the help. Nevertheless...

The lack of explanation from the ref was pretty noticeable, and something they will need to work on as women's rugby gets more eyeballs.

Eg. What was that scrum free kick for?

 

[Mr Pilfer]

Taranaki vs Otago NPC around 62nd minute, Otago number 10 scores a try. Ref called release because knees on ground so they release and he falls over try line

Been waiting for one of these to come up, not sure what defenders are supposed to do?

 

[dru]

Taranaki vs Otago NPC around 62nd minute, Otago number 10 scores a try. Ref called release because knees on ground so they release and he falls over try line

Been waiting for one of these to come up, not sure what defenders are supposed to do?

Give a penalty?

 

[Mr Pilfer]

Give a penalty?

Yeah I think that’s the only option which is pretty stupid and ref could give a yellow card as well

 

[Strewthcobber]

Give a penalty?

Penalty try + yellow card?

 

[Wilson]

Taranaki vs Otago NPC around 62nd minute, Otago number 10 scores a try. Ref called release because knees on ground so they release and he falls over try line

Been waiting for one of these to come up, not sure what defenders are supposed to do?

Best bet would be bring him down over the line without releasing the player so that it's held up, but you are very much putting yourself in the refs hands at that point. Looking at it though they probably would've got away with doing that (assuming they could've pulled it off, it's a tricky bit of business).

Either way the tacklers definitely screwed up in the first place though - they should've fallen back over the line once they had him in hand instead of trying to force him away from the line. We've had goal line drop outs for held up a while now but the lower levels have been slow to adapt.