TMO is becoming the new scrum reset

Just when the IRB seem to have managed to largely remove 10 minutes of watching forwards tediously reset collapsed scrums in a match, it seems to have been replaced with tediously long and too often repeated replays that still seem to lead to some fairly obviously wrong decisions. To solve this, the IRB ........no longer lets us hear the TMO ??

Yep

I haven't seen the replay yet, can anyone explain why our 2 tries yesterday were disallowed?

My best guess for Lydiates was they think it was held up?

Still have no idea what happened for Faletaus.

I do agree that we (the fans) should beable to hear the TMO.

Never the less i am so glad that they are using the TMO, regardless if we hear him or not

IronMike wrote:I haven't seen the replay yet, can anyone explain why our 2 tries yesterday were disallowed?

My best guess for Lydiates was they think it was held up?

Still have no idea what happened for Faletaus.

Both players were considered to have been held in the tackle. Neither were.

Looking at the (brief) highlights I thought lydiate didn't actually ground it. I thought it looked like he would but a Fijian literally pulled him up and it just missed.

Yeah I re looked at the Williams tackle and no way was he held

Standulstermen wrote:Looking at the (brief) highlights I thought lydiate didn't actually ground it. I thought it looked like he would but a Fijian literally pulled him up and it just missed.

Yeah I re looked at the Williams tackle and no way was he held

Williams knocked-on in the tackle, but that was not given as the reason for no-try.

Pretty sure he didn't knock on. He caught the ball before it hit the ground

Standulstermen wrote:Pretty sure he didn't knock on. He caught the ball before it hit the ground

Thats what I thought, I don't remember seeing the ball ever hitting the ground.

And he was never held in the tackle, the referee was bleating on about how the tackle was "completed", but I'm not convinced he even knew what he gave a penalty for.

Williams did knock on, as the ball bounced and went forward. I assume they knew he couldn't award the try for that reason, even though it was wrong that they had a penalty instead of a scrum.

The ref got Faletau's try right for the wrong reason, he wasn't held in the tackle, yet as was shown in slow mo the ball did get knocked on, for hitting the ground, and Lydiate was penalised for crawling which was also correct.

wayne wrote:The ref got Faletau's try right for the wrong reason, he wasn't held in the tackle, yet as was shown in slow mo the ball did get knocked on, for hitting the ground, and Lydiate was penalised for crawling which was also correct.  

I meant Lydiates other try, the driving maul

IronMike wrote:

wayne wrote:The ref got Faletau's try right for the wrong reason, he wasn't held in the tackle, yet as was shown in slow mo the ball did get knocked on, for hitting the ground, and Lydiate was penalised for crawling which was also correct.  

I meant Lydiates other try, the driving maul

Right sorry Mike, yes there was a view that was shown after the TMO had made his decision that showed the ball had been grounded over the line.

Was a bit tedious though watching all those replays ?