Re: Kyle Wood : Sun Feb 25, 2018 11:00 am  

vastman wrote:

Have to sat the VR was pathetic, I like the technology but there has to come a point where you say YES and it needed to be way earlier on the TJ try.

It wasn’t just the TJ try. He looked at the big Dave try far too many times, it was clear the tackle hadn’t been completed from one look at it

Re: Kyle Wood : Sun Feb 25, 2018 11:33 am  

Tricky2309 wrote:

It wasn’t just the TJ try. He looked at the big Dave try far too many times, it was clear the tackle hadn’t been completed from one look at it

What worried me in the request on the DF try was the fact that Hewer called play on, if the VR then says he was held,we would be penalised for playing to the whistle. He should have only asked for grounding if that was the issue, if that is possible within the ever changing VR rules.

Re: Kyle Wood : Sun Feb 25, 2018 11:52 am  

1873 wrote:

What worried me in the request on the DF try was the fact that Hewer called play on, if the VR then says he was held,we would be penalised for playing to the whistle. He should have only asked for grounding if that was the issue, if that is possible within the ever changing VR rules.

Totally agree.
The ref called play on and the VR should only be able to check what happend after that.

Re: Kyle Wood : Sun Feb 25, 2018 1:28 pm  

I thought that at the time - if he calls play on, the player is always gonna keep going - I saw no merit in asking the VR to look at that, and if he'd decided that actually, the tackle was complete, what result do you award, given that the player followed the referee's instructions?

I'm in the same boat with the VR yesterday - the multiple attempts to find a sliver of TJ's foot in touch was painful - it was obvious from the 2nd replay that the try was legit - get on with it!

Re: Kyle Wood : Sun Feb 25, 2018 2:26 pm  

financialtimes wrote:

He was wearing an air boot at the end of the game but he still managed to walk over from the other side of the pitch tomthankmus All Forbes making the trip

Sounds not that serious then. Let's hope he isn't out too long.

Re: Kyle Wood : Sun Feb 25, 2018 3:42 pm  

Is it still Alibert who does the VR for all of Catalans matches?

Whoever it was they were desperate to disallow both of those tries, or so it seemed to me anyway.

Re: Kyle Wood : Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:11 pm  

charlie wrote:

Is it still Alibert who does the VR for all of Catalans matches?

Whoever it was they were desperate to disallow both of those tries, or so it seemed to me anyway.

I said exactly the same as I was watching the game.

Re: Kyle Wood : Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:23 pm  

charlie wrote:

Is it still Alibert who does the VR for all of Catalans matches?

Whoever it was they were desperate to disallow both of those tries, or so it seemed to me anyway.

I have read it was Bentham? From what I have seen from games in France, the vr struggles to get the pictures he wants from the French TV...

Re: Kyle Wood : Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:34 pm  

Yes you are right, just had a look on the RFL site and it was Bentham. There certainly was a point that Alibert did every game for them, maybe that stopped after Thaler made him look like a t1t.

Re: Kyle Wood : Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:35 pm  

charlie wrote:

Is it still Alibert who does the VR for all of Catalans matches?

Whoever it was they were desperate to disallow both of those tries, or so it seemed to me anyway.

The VR was Scott Mikalauskas.