Poor Performance By World Cup Officials So Far
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Shoulder to the head but not carded for the tackle. Maybe a penalty try as only 5 or meters away. It is decided after the offence if the player wasn't there would they have scored and that is a maybe from this photograph.Fiji have loads of support so the argument is very strong in their favor.
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Final result no try,no penalty and a concussed player.
World Rugby released a statement yesterday complaining about the standard of refereeing in the first week of the Rugby World Cup. I must admit I haven't watched all the games as work is a little more important but it is nothing new.
I honestly don't think it is a surprise that refs are missing crucial things as they are not clear and obvious all the time unless you have played the game. There has been a clamp down apparently on dangerous tackles lately. I find it laughable as even if you use your arms in a tackle you can still do some damage.
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No arms tackle by "Japanese "player James Moore on a Russian.
I believe it should be more on the intent to do harm than the tackle itself. It is easy to swing one harm harder than the other hitting your forearm into the head of the opponent without doing a head high tackle. Referees only look for arms being used and that is just wrong. A forearm swung hard enough against the side of the head or body may still look legitimate, but it isn't. Innocently wrapping an arm around a player trying to cause damage.
Fiji should have received a penalty try in their game against Australia and Australia lose Hodge to a straight forward red card. Fiji lost 39-21, but add 7 points and remove one player and who knows what would have happened. Hodge has been cited now and faces a disciplinary panel for his torpedo head high tackle.
There is no excuse as there is a professional referee on the field and a referee behind the tv looking for anything that isn't clear and obvious. I honestly believe that sitting beside the tv match official there should be an ex player highlighting what is not so clear and obvious. Technical areas like scrums and off the ball incidents are missed. One such penalty went to New Zealand on Saturday when in fact they had over extended themselves and collapsed the scrum, yet they were awarded the penalty. Crucial moments that change matches from seriously bad calls.
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Two incidents of foul play in the referees eye line.
Kieran Read would have been blown up on Saturday for dragging a Springbok by the neck. Sam Cane punched another player in the face in front of the referee and he ignored it.It doesn't help highlighting the incidents after the match as you cannot change the outcome. If World Rugby is serious about raising the standards then they need better referees who understand the game and that means attracting ex players to take up the whistle.
Samoa was so lucky not getting two straight reds. Two times clearly contact to the head. Russian heads just are too strong to get cobcussed though.
Huge respect for those lads
Hopefully those knocks to vasilys head don't cause him too much bother next few days. Poor refereeing. Gadzhiev looks brilliant, two more games like he's had and who knows where he'll go. Glimpses of absolute brilliance from samoa, imagine how strong they could be with all the poached players in the roster!
Do they have replay? Maybe they need to bring that into the mix. I know it is pretty controversial, but there are instances where it really makes a huge difference. So there is only one official on the field in a Rugby match? That seems wholly inadequate. I think American Football has at least three.
They have a ty match official and two linesmen assisting the ref. The issue is whether the officials understand what is really going on having not played the game. An ex player will understand certain things a lot better and will be able to read the game.
That makes sense.
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It's always easy to see in hindsight and reviewing. The highest games I officiated was highschool and mens league soccer in college, but it's not easy to see everything all at once even with 3 people watching what's going on.
Soccer tried adding a 4th official and said that it didn't have any noticeable difference on the quality of the officiating, but I don't see how an extra set of eyes wouldn't. I think the next step is to somehow get AI involved or every sport will have some replay of events after something major happens.
Regardless those officials (at least in FIFA) get paid good money so the amount of scrutiny they're put under for missing these calls is definitely deserved.
I am against AI as it wouldn't be able to read the game like an ex player. Most of the officials that are botching the calls have never played the game and where the real problem lies. It is easy to spot foul play and they see it as legitimate as the rules state if you use your arms in a tackle it is legal. I know from experience you can still cause harm on purpose ,but still be legal according to them.
Yeah I don't agree with AI either, but if you want to get human errors out of any game you're going to have to take the human element out of it somehow.
For soccer I think it's a different skill set that takes a good referee so ex players would make terrible referee. I know because I get too caught up in the game and forget that I need to be taking in the entire picture when I was reffing.
Some players can pull off headbutting the opposition and some how all 3 referees manage to miss it ><
Sometime for a Referee it very Unclear Yet He Decide it if Goes True He is Very Appreciated and often if it Wrong then He is Taken by People very Hard..