The recent furore over the Sam Cane v Robbie Henshaw collision in the second test between Ireland and New Zealand got me to thinking about the merits of using slow motion video to make judgements about potential foul play incidents in rugby. I think we have all heard the meme that sometimes, looking
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Odd one from last Saturday and interested to know what others would have done:
Blue kick ball through from the half way line.
Ball bounces about 5 m from 22 and Red 15 decides to fly hack the ball. He, somewhat amazingly, makes amazing contact with the ball and it flies off the foot......
So I heard this from 2 sources this weekend. One being a Mr Austin Healey on BT Sport commentary.
I used to chastise people who think like this but perhaps I;m now wrong and there has been a recent directive.
Mr Healey (paraphrase) , talking about the referee , "That's only the 2nd scrum there...
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Thread Starter: IdrisDragonOdd one from last Saturday and interested to know what others would have done: Blue kick ball through from the half way line. Ball bounces about 5 m from 22 and Red 15 decides to fly hack the ball. He, somewhat amazingly, makes amazing contact with the ball and it flies off the foot......
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