The Assistant Referees are intervening constantly throughout the game via their radio links. The game is reffed by a team of three. All that happened is Nige realised the ref could not hear his interventions over the radio so put a flag in.
Second- and even third-rate Welsh sides have been known to become very first-rate when faced with the men in white.
Yeah, but he seemed to handle it more confidently than they usually do, plus in one of the first couple of weeks he was suggesting the ref have another look at something, as he obviously disagreed with the decision.
The UK press reviews I read so far don't even mention Mr Brown's temper tantrum. The Irish press reviews do
For sure. Members of the team of three have been told to call something if they see it. Thud avoiding critical incidents that get missed.
But isn't some kind of intent necessary for 'illegal'? Surely you can't be found guilty of something if whatever happened was entirely inadvertent? I'm not disputing (heaven forbid!); I'm genuinely curious.
You want the impossible or an end to the Union game.
Badly executed tackle doesn't require intent to do harm to constitute dangerous play. But you get a player beyond the horizontal it is your duty to put the player down safely.
Irish management must be happy. I'm not. Brown's stupidity will get repeated on pitches all over the shop this weekend and players will be baffled, with some justification, when their tap dancing gets carded.
They changed it a few years ago. I'd always thought that if the ref had seen it and decided not to do anything you couldn't be cited as it had effectively been dealt with during the game.
That's wendyball innit .
