I agree he has lost his form.

Cop out pretty much sums it up and it becomes even more apparent at international level that that is the case.

I totally agree regarding your example of when it should be used but you'd hope that in general play between three of them ref and 2 flag men, they'd be able to see most of whats going on and not have to resort to report. The issue off useless touch judges however is for another thread.

Would there however be a way to speed the system up i.e. hand it to Video ref, then at least the team who was on the recieving end gets some out of it, rather than next weeks team getting an advantage.

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sculthorpe
A fighting pack to be feared, not to mention senior in the backline. That wins half the psychological battle

A few years ago I saw an old video of an early 70s test. IIRC Rod Reddy bit Jim Mills; Jim reacted by nutting Reddy & snotting him a couple of times on the way down. Not one Aussie came anywhere near.

I'm pleased you mentioned that example.

It really is quite laughable to hear of the more modern examples of legendary hardness involving players like McDermott, Morley, Sculthorpe and Senior.

Pussycats compared to players from the 60's and 70's.

I forgot to mention, again IIRC, Lindop was the ref, he penalised the Aussies & just got on with it.