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

[Mampara]

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' ?

[Gromit]

He called it an offside against Scotland and penalised them. But the ball came off of an Australian player so wasn't offside.

First time I have seen an international referee sprint off the field at the final whistle, showed great disrespect to his colleagues, players, fans.

[SirOracle]

After the bloomers that he made during the match I am not surprised in the slightest Gromit.

[ichkeria]

He shouldn't have run off the field, and he made a mistake, but everyone makes mistakes. Admittedly this was rather a large one, but Scotland benefitted from mistakes by their opponents (one charge down, and one interception for two of the tries) , so I guess the luck evened itself out :-)

[SirOracle]

Mistakes by ones opponents are part of the game but mistakes by the referee are not.

[ToraToraTora]

yep the sweaties where the victims of a bad decision, not much they could do, they did have a smalll chance before that to get the ball in a ruck then they could have bored it to death for 2 minutes and closed out the game but in the end the decision was wrong, pity they didn't go to the TMO.

[Peter Pedant]

// yep the sweaties where the victims of a bad decision,surely this//

surely this should be
the sweaties were the victims of bad bat ( bat and ball - call )
as the slobbers made a bing for the goom ( dressing room - goom )
and as splutch ( such and such - splutch ) .... etc etc

O come on 3T
you are far too dear today ( crystal clear - dear )

[SirOracle]

TTT I agree with all that you say here (for once),but slightly object to your use of the word Sweaties. ;-)

[Peter Pedant]

poesy I call it Sir Orac ( sweaties )
and ya dont get much poesy on AB !

[MargoTester]

The TMO can only be used to decide whether or not a try has been scored or not, or I'd there is a suspicion of foul play.

[ToraToraTora]

not true margo, it was used in the Argy game to determine if a player should get a second yellow card.

[MargoTester]

Sorry put in 2 or nots and it should read 'if a try..'

[MargoTester]

What was the second yellow card for though?

[maggiebee]

TTT uses "sweaties" regularly in an extremely derogatory way. PP, your post was extremely enlightening.

[ToraToraTora]

well they decided against it but it was no where near the try line, nothing to do with a try or not.

[angie55]

TTT - "not true margo, it was used in the Argy game to determine if a player should get a second yellow card"

Tis true, that TMO referral was looking at suspected foul play!

[ToraToraTora]

I do nolt use the term in a derogatory way, it is accepted rhymming slang for jock and on other threads others have said that jock is ok. If you choose to make it "derogatory" that's your cross to bear.

[MargoTester]

Thank you Angie.

[maggiebee]

OK TTT and what is Jock rhyming slang for?

[steg]

Isn't deliberate offside" foul play" ?
If not, why award a penalty?

[SirOracle]

A penalty is only awarded for foul play,off-side is surely foul play.I have seen it used concerning a forward pass and also to differentiate between a deliberate knock on and an attempt to catch the ball. This was used to have a Scottish player given a yellow card,unjustly in my opinion.

This ref.used the tmo much more often than every other ref.yet for some inexplicable reason declined to use it at a critical time in the match.