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Originally Posted by Bagor
Because then he can at least say he followed due process.
The end twas a case of he SHOULD have gone upstairs. The system was in place and he failed to use it.
Greig Laidlaw tells ITV Sport that the referee should have gone upstairs to review the final penalty decision.
And, by golly, he should have.
It looks clearly like Nick Phipps - the Australia scrum-half- got the final touch on the ball before offside Scotland prop Jon Welsh instinctively grabbed it.
That should have been an accidental offside and a scrum-down Australia.
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Originally Posted by #22
I can't believe they allowed the game to end on such a blunder. Terrible decision to not use TMO for such an important call. All tournament long they have set a new standard of transparent refereeing and then, with one play, they go and wipe all that out and create all sorts of controversy again. Frustrating
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I am going by memory, but IIRC, there are 4 reasons the on field official can go to TMO:
1: ground in goal
2: success of a kick at goal
3: infringement in build up or prevention of a try
4: acts of foul play
He didn't have the option to go to the TMO.
I was happy to see the Irish get smashed by a strong Argentinian side. Hopefully, people will start to give them the credit they deserve.
New Zealand, yeah, well what can be said. The wrong French team showed up, but too be honest, I am not sure it would have mattered which French team showed up.
SA and Wales, I was pulling for Wales all day long. They played the more positive rugby, but for one piece of brilliance it could have been different.
Aussies, thank god....but to be fair 1/4's shouldn't be cake walks.