Good. It is better than any self respecting parent justifying what you did.

So as a parent I can handle that childish comment. But as a fellow one, you should be ashamed.

Go back and read what I said and then review the video and consider what the referee and TJ saw in normal speed without the benefit of replays and mock outrage, then consider what the referee did next and the conversation that he had with his assistant.

Then tell me how you would have done it differently given that your back was turned to the incident throughout it.

To be fair to ashton he did much better than fielden. He took 3 good shots and was still on his feet. Fielden wentdown like a sack of S?!t after one blow, and was not the same player for years!!!

I have always been a proponent of VRs being able to review such incidents live during the game.
In this case though, it's up to the officials to see these things.

Both propositions are an ideal world situation though - in a disciplinary hearing you have the benefit of distance from the event, isolation from what has gone on in the game as a whole and the benefit of several opinions as well as (and probably just as important), legal submissions and the submission of evidence/expression of remorse from the players involved as well as consideration of previous record.

You can't squeeze all of that into a video van and come up with an instant and robust conviction can you and even if you could you would leave the code(s) open to potential legal responses afterwards.

Personally I don't expect a referee to be able to spot off-the ball incidents, I expect him to follow the play, maybe theres a case for the assistants to be watching the wider picture but in RL we see so many times how a referee (some more than others) will be very reticent to use his assistants in any other roll than to mark where a ball went into touch.

And if they don't see them as they are behind play like this one should the officials face long bans for not seeing them, like Gotcha says?

A long ban for not seeing something that happened behind him?

Don't be so bloody silly.

Some people talk out of it, maybe we should expect referees to see out of their a[irs[/ies ?

at least one of the officials did see the incident though, otherwise why were the yellow cards produced

I was gonna say the same.

3 punches like that, especially the third, I'd suggest most people would be on the floor after that. You can see how much of his weight Tuilangi puts into it. My uncle is a boxing coach and he's always said to me that the sign of a real good kid in the class is the ability to take a punch far more than it is to give one. You can improve strength, and punching technique with practice, but a natural ability to stay on your feet when somebody is smacking you in the head certainly helps!

Stop stating the bloody obvious here.

Wheels did his usual bunny hop into the dirty stuff without thinking, and McLaren latched on to the support.

The fact you saw the obvious without emotion is irrelevant.

bill shankley was once having a go after a game at referee jack taylor for missing something. i'm sorry, taylor said, my mind was on an operation i,m having next week.
hope it's not serious said shanks.
no, said taylor, i,m having eyes put in my f**king