Durham Giant wrote:
Thank God Farrell got yellow carded because otherwise all we would have had was Burgess being yellow carded .
They hand out yellow cards like confetti to be fair, the fact that the lead runner was obstructing in the first instance led to Farrell making contact, sure 'without' arms but a yellow for Burgess, that'd be bollox. Guys having their heads being tugged at the ruck and maul in headlocks and not a murmer. Far worse & plentiful around the shoulder/neck tackles gone unpunished but union has gone properly soft. Their TMO system is making the game even worse than it is already with regard to minor infractions.
Classic one earlier in which the ref was happy with the tackle but the TMO just couldn't help himself and was insisting that one of the most respected referees was wrong and he needed to have a look at it. Game came to a standstill for 2-3 minutes and still the TMO was telling the ref to give the tackler a yellow for a non event.