It could work both ways. For example the Tomkins sin bin during the semi final. Never a yellow card but if the wording was different and going by how the ref called it on the day he could have also given a penalty try.

Not pointless if we miss fourth place by points difference smaller 6.

I don't see what difference a yellow card would have made to our points difference, except maybe a slightly better chance of scoring on the first play from the penalty.

It at least gave us the comedy of us trying to run it down the short side from a tap penalty with one play left. When are we going to bother trying a high kick to 6ft 5in. Gelling? Land it on their goal line and 9/10 he would beat another player to it.

I was baffled that we didn't go for two rather than try and score on one play

It wasn't a penalty try - Burgess kicked it too hard and wouldn't have caught it before it went dead in my opinion.

Definitely a yellow card though - the referee probably just couldn't be bothered to send him off given the time had run out.