Leicester Tigers

Tigers had to stop letting Ulster play and start playing themselves. Once the did that they were brilliant. French refs let things go and there were some high tackles that Ulster got away with. Nadolo incident was odd. It was not clear he made much of any contact and was trying to jump over a slipp...

Hamish has been an assistant ref a few times at Welford Road before stepping into the middle. He was the referee for our Premiership Rugby Cup game against Worcester a couple of years ago. I clearly wasn't impressed with him as my teenage daughter pointed out that while I could complain as much as ...

It used to be the law that, if an act of foul play was committed by the defending team during the act of a try being scored, the referee is still entitled to restart the game with a penalty to the attacking side on the halfway line...effectively giving the opportunity for a 10 point try. However th...

Barnes is the best referee in the world, but I do disagree with some of his decisions yesterday evening. Even so, to call his actions "criminal", "disgusting", "biased" and "awful" is just outrageous. It's not Barnes who needs to have a look in the mirror, it...

Tiger_in_Birmingham wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 10:33 pm

VernonAtrium wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 10:32 pm Here's an idea. Each ref decision referred to the TMO is also referred to an instant online vote from the AMO (Armchair Match Officials). Final decision between the ref and TMO stands, but it gives the pedants something to do and they feel involved.

Ask the audience?

Phone a Scott

Has he actually admitted to intentional gouging though? I'm just going by the BBC website (the paperwork isn't on the RFU site yet) which has this: "His evidence was that he had intended to 'irritate' the Wasps player but that he had not intended to cause any harm in his action," said a s...

Typical English can't say well done Scotland they've got to slag the ref. France kept the ball alive with the clock in the red. Well done Scotland and for all the feeding frenzy on here, I don't think that Wayne Barnes made any difference to the result (and I was hoping for a France win by 20+ poin...

Crazy how France lose 2 points with a tough kick when the penalty try should’ve been given and the Scotland player would’ve been binned. Crazy game at times it really is! Yep. France penalized for an unbelievable bit of skill, strange call by the officials Even though he managed to dot it down ,why...

The Scots are playing in English teams because England can't produce enough equally good players. As for the PRL they asked for Scots to be released so English teams could have full squads a few months ago. No fees requested by the Scots but when this match came about there was a substantial fee ma...

Re Maitland don't slag Sarries but keep the wrath for the PRL and their unrugby like financial blackmail on the Scots. Why in a prem season with no relegation can't the feudal money grabbing sasaunachs back off. But surely the Scots are only playing in England so that they can earn more money, so a...

Perhaps he should of tried the Marler approach to irritating your opponent, as to some on this forum that's just Rugby..... I'm sure not the incident you refer to (which was I agree beyond the pale), but was it Marler or Haskell who used the squirt of the waterbottle approach? Presumably that would...

Why are we not surprised that the only English club to deny Scotland a player is... ...Saracens. All other clubs have released the internationals requested by Scotland, Saracens have retained Maitland. :smt011 I think that the Premiership allowed Scotland to pick 5 players, though Saracens aren't i...

Carreras has got 9 weeks for the eye contact which he admitted was intentional. My bold. And wow! He's got some serious issues if he's deliberately trying to rip someone's eye out. If he was a Tigers played I'd hope to not see him in the shirt again. I thought this was a thing long past... when was...

England’s decision making about Ford last week baffles me- can anyone explain why he didn’t come back on for Farrell? They said it wasn’t because he was injured it was tactical- I’m slightly lost as to why you would play two scrum halves with a fly half on the bench? Honestly, I think they didn't r...

Bless. Having been catching up on this and other threads today with a pile on against another poster, some might say what goes around comes around.