Quote: morrisseyisawire "He sent it up to the VR based on a guess, he didn't have a scooby doo whether that ball was down or not but he certainly wasn't going to send it up as no try with 9000 Hull fans between him and the motorway.'"
not quite, he sent it up to the VR on the balance of probability - like refs do every single game without the benefit of the cameras there. I thought the idea was they were supposed to award the try based on what they would have given if the cameras weren't present. If the cameras weren't present I would hazard there would not have been a debate about it at all and the decision would have been accepted without question.
I repeat, we still cannot see what the ref saw at the time even with the multiple camera angles. Perhaps what we really need is a "ref cam" rather than multiple camera angles!