TMOs to play bigger role
1 Dec 2011
Television match officials could be allowed to point out foul play to referees during the 2012 Super Rugby tournament.
The IRB recently announced that TMOs in two tournaments – one in each hemisphere – would be allowed to do this on a trial basis, with the European Cup being the first.
According to the Volksblad newspaper, Super Rugby could follow suit.
‘There must still be decided what tournament in the southern hemisphere the new technology will be used in, but hopefully it’s in the Super Rugby tournament,’ Saru referees manager André Watson said. ‘It is good to use technology where it could be of assistance and I support it 100%. However, I fear that most people won’t realise that it won’t be infallible.’
The IRB is yet to decide how the rule would be implemented. The first option is for the referee to decide when he would want to refer possible foul play to the TMO, while the second option would be for each of the two captains to receive one referral per match.
Watson said a combination of the two could work.
‘One must remember that the captain can’t always see everything that happens on the field and won’t always be able to make a call to refer the incident.’
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1 Dec 2011, 10:24 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-47:
roundabouts are Britain’s greatest contribution to cilvilisation.
especially in south africa where the traffic lights never work because Capo has stoeln all the wire to feed his virulent tik habit.
In provence they are a source of pride and each village goes to great length to landscape theirs in a beautiful and unique way.
sometimes over christmas they will have a moving nativity tableau of the three wise men and the Baby Gunther.
1 Dec 2011, 10:29 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-50:
zigactly, but even better than that there will be no warning at all.
one minute he will be watching contedly as Pocock plays twister all over a ruck or blowing Danie Roussouw up for looking funny at Vickerman and the next he will be a slobbering incoherent palsy thrashing all over the turf.
Destined to spend the rest of his days in the Allan Boesak Home for the Elderly in Mitchell’s Plain watching endless replays of the 95 world cup final.
I smell a Nobel.
1 Dec 2011, 10:30 am
@Gunther(gunther)-51: Perhaps, but they can be a bit daunting for the average TBC (trans-boerewors curtain) dweller. Last week a Belville resident spent 36 hours trying to exit one and only got out when he ploughed through a vibracrete wall after cramping up from the marathon right turn. Imagine your little nativity scene having to deal with that.
1 Dec 2011, 10:32 am
@Gunther(gunther)-52: I can see the touch judge running onto the field with a kit bag. Predictably the whole of Loftus will cheer and whistle as the ref changes his adult diaper.
1 Dec 2011, 10:35 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-53:
One and a half wise men and no Baby Gunther?
*gulp*
1 Dec 2011, 10:37 am
@Gunther(gunther)-55: ‘Tis the season to be jelly…
1 Dec 2011, 10:39 am
@Tacitus(Deucalion)-40:
yip.
take rugby back to its roots and play it like men.
problem solved.
1 Dec 2011, 10:53 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-54:
boom.
I think we’ve found a job for extraball.
1 Dec 2011, 11:00 am
@Gunther(gunther)-58: I thought he already had a job. Isn’t he a bouncer at His People Church in N1 City?
1 Dec 2011, 11:06 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-59:
apparently he has found a part in the film they are making about Dolly.
He plays a malcontent SACOS activist with a love of free t shirts and an insatiable need to fill his tupperware at every opportunity.
he is also doubling as the boundary rope in some of the cricket scenes.
1 Dec 2011, 11:07 am
Fak this is trouble for the boks…they now have a more refs to blame!!
Sucks to be a saffa!!
1 Dec 2011, 11:24 am
@Gunther(gunther)-60:
“an insatiable need to fill his tupperware at every opportunity.” …. what on earth is that a euphemism for?
1 Dec 2011, 11:39 am
@wallabie.(wallabie.)-61:
South Africans have used the technology illegally already.
To them its a great idea until they realise that infact SA kill the ball and cheat just as much as any other team.
1 Dec 2011, 11:54 am
@wallabie.(wallabie.)-61:
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-63:
you guys are just projecting now…
1 Dec 2011, 12:18 pm
@au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-64:
1 Dec 2011, 12:48 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-65:
i respect your honesty…
1 Dec 2011, 17:44 pm
Very good idea. Should have been implemented in the past wc.
Captains should have 3 referrals.
2 Dec 2011, 00:17 am
@Puma(Puma)-67:
Agreed…but how far does a captain be allowed to go back and for what incidents can he refer?
2 Dec 2011, 02:28 am
@wallabie.(wallabie.)-68:
One would think only for the end of that move… but it’s going to be a bit suss if there’s a 20 plus phase move…
Expect to see far more chirping too… which I cannot stand… albeit do see the captain’s frustration when ref’s are getting it so wrong…
I’d like to see an extra 5mins at half-time where both captains have a quick chat with the ref, the ***.refs actually doing their job properly and the TMO use sparingly for a referral or two… nothing more…
2 Dec 2011, 02:43 am
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-69:
That’s ‘Assistant’ refs…
Whilst on this subject it’s time for Paddy O Brien to be shown the gangplank off the gravy train… he’s added zero in his tenure… and has given zero input after this RWC… new blood needed at the top… give him his golden handshake and the boot!
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