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didn't the TMO initiate the review (because he'd seen a knock on) ? Or did PG just decide to check

Which of of course is seldom used in TV rugby, it's gone quite out of fashion

For the knock on , the presence of a TMO, unusually, didn't help.
Without a TMO, without replays he would surely would have given a ko

The replays gave him time to confuse himself

Looking...

consider for half a second, and reject yes

There was some ambiguity prior to the rewrite, but since 2017 the Law has been very clear : on the ground already, ball comes to you, you can't play it.

yes I noticed- and it's a PK

It's great question .

I don't think the half is over until the conversion has been taken.

So the foul play happened in the first half, so we restart immediately.

If it was the second half...

the ref could declare the ruck as 'won' and from then no new player could join the ruck, no player could leave the ruck, and the winning team have [3] seconds to use it

It's definitely an oddity of rugby that a team awarded a PK .... kicks the ball off the field.

When you sit and think about it, it's very strange - I can't think of any other sport with...

No, it's a real question. My law books only go back to 2015 and it was the case then

QQ when was the Law changed so that you could kick a PK to touch, and keep the throw in ?
Feels like ten years ago ??

The possibility that May was engaged in dangerous play didn't seem to even occur to them. That really surprised me,

to be clear - I am happy for them to judge that May wasn't dangerous, to me...

in the old days there was a law that said

"Any player may tackle, hold or push an opponent holding the ball." - which (pretty much) covered the ankle tap .. it comes under push in that you push...

sounds like you would have deserved a 79th minute PK under the sticks !! :biggrin:

neither did I really - and yet his boot ddi seem to clip the tacklers head, so perhaps it was.

did you think May was dangerous -- or reckless?

It didn't seem to me to be very dangerous .... and yet his boot did clip the Italian's head (or came very very close) so perhaps it was?

Which did Jonny May do ?

I think a typical dive to score is a low trajectory .. avoiding a tackle by going low
May was different , he dived over a tackler

Don't ask me whether it was legal or not .. am so confused now...

jumping into a tackle (fair game to tackle) v jumping to catch a ball (not) ??????

i think the key difference is
- jumping / hurdling : you are expecting to land on your feet, so your feet will be below/in front of you
- diving : you are expecting to land on your elbows, feet...

But May was clearly diving, not hurdling - and yet still his boot met the tackler's head (or was millimeters from it)

So are we really to say that one is dangerous, and the other isn't?

you are missing nothing, it was a problematic call

https://youtu.be/L3s796b43hA

Here it is .. does the boot clip the head ?
TMO and ref don't even consider it

yes, that would be better, but I think it would be very reasonable for a referee to state that teams need to be ready for the instrction 'crouch' within 30s , and to FK if not.

Luke Pearce does...

i thought that - but strangely the conversation between the TMO and ref didn't even mention this possibility. They seemed totally focussed on touch, never discussed if the dive was OK or not, never...