They do need to scrap the on-field call, it can rule out perfectly good tries as we’ve seen. Also, I think they should check for everything. Case in point, that wakey try with the kicks, if there’s boot touching the ball, check everyone is onside regardless of whether the idiot on the pitch has asked to check. Check every possibility, it really wouldn’t take that much longer to draw a yellow line on the screen in line with the ball, like football’s offside graphic, and then its indisputable. Just do it automatically. Rule any doubt about any incident.
Just say “I want to check the grounding but can you make sure everything else is ok?”.
Then again, I’d also check for forward passes. Perhaps we’d be here all day!?
It’s also bloody annoying how it’s clear sometimes they get a word in their ear, such as when someone shouldn’t be getting head and feed at the scrum and it’s overturned, yet, other things that are blindingly obvious get ignored, the cynic in me says, to keep the game close or interesting. I’m also fed up of referees not calling held and still penalising a player, such as Charnley on Thursday when he piled that Wakey lad into touch. The linesman raised his flag, that’s our ball. The goons on tv agreed that’s why he’d raised the flag. Nobody shouted held, Josh had every right to continue the contest.
Anyway, like many other things, officiating is killing my love of the game, slowly.
