Ferocious Aardvark wrote:
Nope. He's a ref. Making calls is what he does. There's no "forcing" involved. He's the man in charge and his call is law. All he is now doing is announcing what his call is, just like he otherwise would, but allowing a review of his decision if he thinks there is sufficient doubt that he'd like it re-assessed with the benefit of video replays.
I think cases where the ref "genuinely doesn't know" (and nor do his assistants) would be rare indeed but in those circumstances he doesn't go home, scratching his arrse, he decides "no try". I don't know why you can't get your head around that simple point.
I thinks perhaps that you need to "get your head around" the fact that not everybody has the same opinion.
The new system is
unnecessarily restrictive. At a non-televised game (which you seem to think should provide the basis for how the referee conducts himself) he has no choice but to make a call regardless of how much doubt he has because he simply does not have the benefit of the VR. At a televised game he does, making it fatuous to use "what would he do if the VR wasn't there" as a basis for his available actions.
