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Quote: Roy Haggerty "The rule is very clear : you always give advantage to the attacking side. So if it is impossible to see whether a try has been scored or not, but there is a reasonable possibility that it was, then the try should be awarded. Clearly, last night, there was a reasonable possibility that the ball contacted the ground. Hence the decision was the correct one in line with the rules.

We could, of course, adopt a stance of always giving the advantage to the defending side, and ruling out all tries unless they are 100% certain. I find this stance is popular amongst fans of the team which conceded the possible try.
I dont think anyone has a problem with "benefit of the doubt to the attacking team" - but we don't have that, we have "benefit of the doubt to the team that the referee guesses it should be".

As to last night, there is no justification at all for James Child sending it upstairs in favour of a Try. If he saw the ball on the ground, he should just have awarded the try. If he didn't see it on the ground or has any doubt, he should have sent it up as no try.

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It is sort of consistent with the laws (which don't actually mention BoD as far as I can see), but I don't like it.

I agree with EHW, if the ref can't see it, he shouldn't give it. And I don't think that's BoD to anyone really, it's just being realistic.

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Quote: moto748 "It is sort of consistent with the laws (which don't actually mention BoD as far as I can see), but I don't like it.

I agree with EHW, if the ref can't see it, he shouldn't give it. And I don't think that's BoD to anyone really, it's just being realistic.'"

But the point is that he hasn't seen it held up either. So he can't give that either can he?

I haven't seen the video again of last night but at the ground it looked like you couldn't conclusively see the ball down but neither could you see it held up. In this case the VR has to take a best guess. Does the ball go toward the ground (with no defender underneath it) and then the view is obscured? If so then you'd have to assume the ball is more likely to have touched the ground than not. In which case you give the try. If however there were defenders arms all around the ball as the view was obscured then you'd have to assume it was held up and not give it.

I really, really don't like the current referral system though. It takes far too much account of the referees view who, by definition of sending it to the VR, isn't sure of what happened. I'd rather a more fluid communication took place between the ref and video ref. The referee should set out what he's seen and what he thought in real time, but not with a simplistic Try/No Try decision, it can be more nuanced than that. Then the VR can watch the replays and take the refs view into account, but not so much that they have to find conclusive proof to overturn the referees admitted not conclusive view.

Thaler was always quite good at telling the VR what had happened when referring it up to the VR.

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Quote: Him "But the point is that he hasn't seen it held up either. So he can't give that either can he?

I haven't seen the video again of last night but at the ground it looked like you couldn't conclusively see the ball down but neither could you see it held up. In this case the VR has to take a best guess. Does the ball go toward the ground (with no defender underneath it) and then the view is obscured? If so then you'd have to assume the ball is more likely to have touched the ground than not. In which case you give the try. If however there were defenders arms all around the ball as the view was obscured then you'd have to assume it was held up and not give it.

I really, really don't like the current referral system though. It takes far too much account of the referees view who, by definition of sending it to the VR, isn't sure of what happened. I'd rather a more fluid communication took place between the ref and video ref. The referee should set out what he's seen and what he thought in real time, but not with a simplistic Try/No Try decision, it can be more nuanced than that. Then the VR can watch the replays and take the refs view into account, but not so much that they have to find conclusive proof to overturn the referees admitted not conclusive view.

Thaler was always quite good at telling the VR what had happened when referring it up to the VR.'"

I can see your point but since "grounding the ball" is the essential part of scoring and is explicitly required by the laws the emphasis, to my mind, really should be on requiring evidence of grounding in order to award the try rather than evidence of being held up in order to disallow it, which seems topsy-turvy.

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They need to get rid of this "I've got a try", "I've got no try" nonsense!

They need to go back to the old way of sending it up when they're really not sure. If the ref thinks he's got a try he should just give the try. If the ref hasn't got a clue, send it up and if it's inconclusive "Benefit of the Doubt" should come back in.

But video refs certainly are essential. Look at the Catalans try last night.

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When did the new ruling at the play the ball come out.

Tackled player gets up off the ground, defender stands his ground, player moves 1 or 2 metre forward pushing defender out of the way loses control of the ball. Ref awards penalty to the attacking side. Seems to be happening on a regular basis.

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Should be on a 'case by case' basis. I wouldn't mind defenders being pinged for 'crowding', if attackers were also pinged from time to time for walking off the mark. They is way too much of this going on in league these days, in the NRL too. It needs to stop. And I think the general sub-text these days of tending to favour the side in possession (presumably in the interests of promoting 'attacking rugby') has made it seem more acceptable.

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On field guess caused a bit of chaos last night by the looks of it.

54 minutes in we had the chance of scoring in the corner but Sarginson's pass went to ground. Touch judge advises Thaler that it's a no try, Thaler asks "do you not think the ball went backwards?" to which the touch judge replies "no it went forward." Thaler asks again "Definitely?" and the touch judge confirms. What does Thaler do? Sends it up as a no try and let's the VR get tangled up in the rules of what they can and cannot adjudicate on and how to do it.

Why didn't he just give a no try like his TJ was telling him? On the flip-side, suppose the ball really did go backwards or it was a legitimate pass rather than fumble, the VR would have had to conclusively show that Sarge intended to pass, or conclusively show that the ball was fumbled backwards in order to over-turn the on field decision, both of which would be practically impossible even if true. We are lucky we didn't have a 10 minute break while they ran the footage backwards and forwards like we've seen before. It's a mess.

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Agree. The VR rules are artificially restricting what the VR can do, which seems a bit silly to me.
As it happens I think they got the right decision in the Wigan game as I think he dropped it whilst trying to pass, but there shouldn't be so much emphasis placed on the on-field refs call.

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Let the ref make the final decision based on the video evidence played back to him on the screen. He is the only person who knows what he did see, and what he is not sure on. The video "ref" will simply be in charge of playing/rewinding the video. Make it an offense for any player to approach the ref whilst he is making the decision. MAYBE if refs had to review their own decisions, and if applicable overturn them themselves, they might be more willing to simply make the call. Under the current system, a ref doesnt have to "question" their call as any disagreement with the video ref can be viewed as "well thats just your opinion" or "well thats easy for you to call with all the extra camera angles"

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