Blues v Highlanders
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@kruse said in Blues v Highlanders:
@kiwiwomble said in Blues v Highlanders:
@crucial said in Blues v Highlanders:
@kiwiwomble said in Blues v Highlanders:
@crucial there is somewhere between directly over your head and flat
I understand the rules, its the subjective aspect of "out of the hands" that annoys me like all the subjective rules, we've all probably watched it loads of times each and there is still disagreement of if it was clearly backwards out of the hands or not
I'm just tired of the solution to reffing mistakes being for them to get better, too much human error and subjective decisions, i imagine the field had lines in the first place take decisions clear, in or out
maybe i should just be happy i got everyone agreeing to disagree with me
We’ve had these discussions before but the easiest way to judge this particular instance is the velocity of the passing and catching players. If they remained relatively constant and the catcher was the same distance behind the passer through the travel then quite obviously the ball was passed back. Physically impossible for that ball to have been passed forward unless Rieko put 15 metres on his brother in three steps.
that make sense, but surely we can see how our game has got too complicated when decisions have to be made on relative velocities
If, a second after the ball left the hand - the ball is behind the player's hands... it's a legal pass. Simple.
As somebody mentioned above - the only problems which should arise - is when the player hits another immediately after/during the act of passing... so they come to a standstill, or backwards, or just slower.I've always wondered about how it might work going the same path as cricket... use technology to resolve this. A GPS-or-similar tracker on the ball, and the player... compare relative velocities at the point of the ball leaving hands.
And I'm not seriously suggesting this - just raising it as a possibility, buying some chips, and sitting back to watch the shitstorm.Perhaps a SpaceX rocket booster in the ball to remove the players momentum?
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@kruse GPS just isn;t accurate enough but the ball tracking stuff from cricket or tennis might be
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@kirwan said in Blues v Highlanders:
The try looks better every time I see it. Running it from your own line after a great turnover, Akira makes a great run and shows pretty spectacular vision and passing skills, and Reiko sprinting to get into position and then burning off the defenders.
O for Awesome.
Yep. And that’s why I am pissed off that it was ruled out. It was one of those tries that make you feel good about the game. It’s the skill that we tune in for and hope to witness
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@crucial said in Blues v Highlanders:
@kirwan said in Blues v Highlanders:
The try looks better every time I see it. Running it from your own line after a great turnover, Akira makes a great run and shows pretty spectacular vision and passing skills, and Reiko sprinting to get into position and then burning off the defenders.
O for Awesome.
Yep. And that’s why I am pissed off that it was ruled out. It was one of those tries that make you feel good about the game. It’s the skill that we tune in for and hope to witness
Yep, that's it in a nutshell.
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@kiwiwomble said in Blues v Highlanders:
@kruse GPS just isn;t accurate enough but the ball tracking stuff from cricket or tennis might be
You would still have the same problem as now. The ball would still travel forward relative to the ground.
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@crucial i think the idea would be those technologies would at least removes the human fuck up aspect, could show it going backwards first...really want the TMO to explain what he saw
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@kiwiwomble said in Blues v Highlanders:
@crucial i think the idea would be those technologies would at least removes the human fuck up aspect, could show it going backwards first...really want the TMO to explain what he saw
I suspect he was trying to fix his mistake the day before with the clear forward pass in the Crusaders game. So "fixed" his mistake with another mistake.
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@kiwiwomble said in Blues v Highlanders:
i agree but other dont so it cant be so clear and obvious
On that basis you could deny any fact.
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@tim said in Blues v Highlanders:
@kiwiwomble said in Blues v Highlanders:
i agree but other dont so it cant be so clear and obvious
On that basis you could deny any fact.
I agree but other dont so it cant be clear and obvious
edit: tongue firmly in cheek, and meant only in jest @Kiwiwomble
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@tim so we just ignore people we disagree with? generally people on here know at least something about rugby, so if there was disagreement about rules between people that know at least a little then maybe the rules aren't as clear and obvious as we might think
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@kiwiwomble We ignore people who don't know the rules for a start. NZ Rugby could do a better job of communicating the rules with easy to interpret graphics, like the one on passes from World Rugby. Unfortunately the refs are so bad they can't even get that right and confuse the public.
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@kiwiwomble said in Blues v Highlanders:
i think im onboard with the no TMO idea, if there was no TMO we may all be annoyed we could see on the reply that it was one thing or the other...but eventually we would have to accept the on field refs can only see what they can see
What makes you think we would all just accept refs only seeing what they can see? We didn't accept that in the past, why is it different now?
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@crazy-horse once again must just have been me, i dont remember arguing or bagging the refs as much about line balls, especially when there was a good chance they didn;t see something, like this one would be bloody hard to see on the field
This particular case the ref allowed it didnt he, which was the right call
i also think im just more inclined to let more stuff go, keep things flowing and i think refs on the fields use too just because they cant see everything and i think almost everything looks worse in slow mo
we have a higher expectation of TMO because they sitting at a screen with all the repays etc... but theyre still human and honestly seem to stuff up as many as they get right
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@kiwiwomble don't disagree your sentiments mate, I just think people are not able to accept wrong decisions. That's why we went the route of the TMO. It's not working as well as we would like but I can't see us going back.
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@crazy-horse i dont actually think we'll go back, its just a vent, if theyre getting so many calls wrong but they seem worse because they less excuse to get them wrong...then...
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It reminds me a lot of Marius Jonker's 2019 fuck up that cost the Crusaders a game in Cape Town.
(start 4mins in).
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@kiwiwomble said in Blues v Highlanders:
@tim so we just ignore people we disagree with? generally people on here know at least something about rugby, so if there was disagreement about rules between people that know at least a little then maybe the rules aren't as clear and obvious as we might think
Do you think it was a forward pass? If so, how do you reconcile that with the video from World Rugby showing how it goes over the ground is irrelevant?
We don't ignore people we disagree with, but the objection has to be grounded in reality. The law interpretation is crystal clear - forward passes are about relative movement to the runner.
Goodness knows how the TMO figured out their result
