Quote: lionarmour87 "I have watched the website replay a few times and I'm still not sure nor was the video ref because it took so long so I think it should have been benefit of the doubt'"
Techonolgy is detrimental to the game IMO. Long before the days of this modern disease it would have been recorded as a try and rightly so. A movement like that should be more inclined towards reward rather than overly scrutinised for the most minute of technical infringements .,.if Stevie Ward had been seen to have the made the slightest of finger tip touches it would have been already ruled out; if any of the players had been judged to have been a cm offside it would have been ruled out. Neither of these would have made any difference to the passage of play and the final finish of the move .....indeed at any non televised match I am sure the outcome would have been very different in 'normal speed'. The referee would not have the option to ask somebody else to "check everything". It seems the video team default position is to find a reason to rule out a try.....and the luck of the draw in camera angles can make all the difference. It altogether ruins the whole spontaneity of sport,...the moment cannot be savoured. Instead we must wait an eternity for some technocrat to rewind and rewind again until inevitably the tiniest of imfringerments is found. Awful.
I wonder how many iconic tries in history would have been wiped out if today's (inconsistent while human beings are still in charge) modern technology had been in existence.