If the reason they didn't give the try is because the referees would fear for their careers after this, bending the rules so Australia make a final - something that happens regularly, then we should scrap all internationals right now. Such corruption would be absurd.

Fortunately I don't believe this. I'm all for neutral referees, but seeing as the Aussies don't give a about the international game I doubt it would "ruin their careers".

I too doubt that it would ruin there careers......but it wouldn't help their careers either. I doubt they'd get the gig the next time the four nations were played.

I dont quite understand how a try can be disallowed because the player did not jump up and down like a lunatic?

Does that mean you can crack someone, but an innocent looking face, then get away with it?

A better idea

6 french officials from Elite 1

Sorted

Agreed.

Perhaps England could provide the lead with a genuine campaign for neutral referees?

Their usual effort to get one of their own refs selected instead doesn't appear to be a very successful strategy.

Why then do Australia insist on (And get) Australian referees whenever they feel slightly worried about a game?

There are so many stupid quirks about this weekend. The referees were neutral last week. Australia lost. If they lost again they were out. So the referees were no longer neutral. Not only were they not neutral, they were related, which was absolutely ridiculous and a clear conflict of interests.

The reasoning given to the players was that the ball was moving upwards, that there was effectively no downward pressure because of this. The video evidence they showed over and over again and which is all over the internet shows conclusively that the ball was well sunk into the grass with absolutely no hint of it being on the rise. It was a ridiculously poor decision if it was a genuine decision and the reasoning given suggests they knew that.

If that incident happened in Origin or the NRL, it's given as a try. Plenty of evidence for that on the internet too. England need to kick up a fuss about it.

Set in stone until either England or Australia whinge about the performance of the Kiwi referee who is accused of being incompetent and out of his depth at international level.

Cue immediate abandonment of neutral refereeing policy as a matter of urgency.


[uTranslation[/u: We want an English ref.

Normal service resumed.

We could just claim one of them is from Wales.

So a French Elite 1 ref

Sorted

If the same incident had happened in the NRL or in State of Origin then it's a definite try, and the media over there would be talking about how it was a miraculous try to manage to put it down from that position.

Hardly sorted.

Same would apply.

French ref deemed incompetent and out of his depth by England or Australia or both.

Cue immediate abandonment of policy on neutral referees.

International RL wouldn't be the absolute joke it is today if it wasn't for the English and the Australians.