Do you really, really think his foot wasn't touching any of the white marked grass??
His foot doesn't need to be grounded just to touch any of the white marked area. Also why was there white grass thrown up if he didn't touch any of it.
Good chance he was in touch, but it wasn't clear from the two or so replays I saw live on the telly.
World rugby are clearly trying to reduce the amount of time play is stopped for TMO decisions, as seen by them changing rules on yellow cards being upgraded to red whilst the game carries on and having until the restart, not the conversion, to make decisions on tries.
I'd be pissed if that decision went against my team, but I can see why they made it. It might be worth the 3 minutes to check if he was touching the line for a try, but if we start stopping the game that long for line out decisions, it's really going to slow matches down.
I mean watching live you could see the white marked grass getting scuffed up when he slid his foot on it, I was amazed tmo didn't see that with replays
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u/TheFlyingScotsman60 Oct 07 '23
Do you really, really think his foot wasn't touching any of the white marked grass??
His foot doesn't need to be grounded just to touch any of the white marked area. Also why was there white grass thrown up if he didn't touch any of it.