It’s too early to take all the of the above post in. As I understand, it was an 8 pt try not a penalty try. Fouled in the act of scoring as confirmed by his charge of dangerous contact. It seems quite simple to me. Try usual conversion and a penalty in front of the sticks for foul play whilst scoring a try

Wasn't the comment by the video ref something along the lines of..."well if you can't show me that angle, I will assume that he was onside then..."

So what's the point of the VR again?

That is correct. VR cannot rule against on field ref without definite proof.

The clear elbow to the face would constitute a penalty either way. I think the initial contact; Webster was contesting the ball and what he did was pure instinct in attempting to tackle Tyrer. I think him then dropping the elbow on Tyrer was out of pure frustration for being out- performed in that instance. To be honest, apart from the try he scored he was pretty ineffective. Potentially he might suffer from a lack of opportunity down that wing without a decent second- rower playing inside him. I expected him to do some real damage in the Championship??? Not sure what channel Minchella plays down. I think if you look at Chester Butler, he was pretty anonymous having Larroyer playing inside of him. Larroyer is no ball handler. A different proposition when he has Grady or Barber playing inside of him.

TBF I didn't have much of an issue with it being an 8 point try. The BBC fecked up by not putting that up on screen, it wasn't a penalty try.

I think whoever was in charge of the BBC scoring had never heard of an 8 point try either. When the 8 pointer was awarded, they put the score as Bulls 6 - 8 Fax, then when they kicked the first conversion Bulls 6 - 10 Fax, then I think even after (though can't remember) the second conversion they may have put it to Bulls 6 - 12 Fax before someone whispered in their ear to tell them the actual try award is still only worth 4 points