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Refereeing decisions

Wilson

John Eales (66)
I get it was a bad trip and potentially could warrant a red, what I'm saying is there's no basis for further scrutiny of an obvious trip that the ref saw live. The offence has been a clear cut yellow card for a long time, they're not going to spend time reviewing it because there's no expectation that it would ever be anything more. It's not like a head high where you're trying to determine initial point of contact, changes in height and variety of other mitigating factors. As far as the adjudication of the game goes a trip is pretty black and white.

The only time that's going to change is if it results in a serious injury, which would pause the game and possibly prompt a ref to look into it more deeply. The only other case is if the ref missed it live and it was first brought up by the TMO, but trips on the ball carrier are pretty hard to miss live, given it's where the focus already is.
 
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