KNOW YOUR LAWS: Rare '10 point try' in Rugby Championship

I've heard, Carlos—not sure if it is true, but makes sense—that the ages between about 15-19 are the most dangerous in terms of head knocks in rugby. Because people are now getting physically big enough to really hurt each other, but because the brain and cranium haven't full developed the head is more susceptible to injury.

Harry, My first head knock happened when I was 15. We were playing against a club that was actually within the city of Buenos Aires. The fence around the pitch was posts with wooden boards between them. One of their players was going to score and was cockily strutting towards the posts on the back of the ingoal area. I came running and dove at him like a rocket to try to get him tackled out of bounds. With such bad aim that he stopped and I flew in front of him and banged my forehead on the wooden boards. I don't remember much afterwards, except throwing up in the bus on the ride back to our club.... I guess he scored.

Ahh, the Hill at Balleymore. Brings back some memories. Remember when they trialled the beer backpack vendors but had to can it coz the Hill kept "relieving" the vendors of their burden!?

I was at that game. It wasn't McGill who took the penalty shot. It was Alan Skinner also a Drummyone player and it was unsuccessful.

I agree. Tuculet escalated it dramatically; even punched Coetzee in the back of the head. No cards for me; but if we had to hand out a card, it should have gone to Tuculet.

That was not a certain forward pass at all. Good chance that it was not even forward at all.

Pretending to arrive ....oh please Carlos. He was doing no such thing. He was close to the player putting the ball down and was entitled to challenge him. Lets say even if that is deemed a late tackle you would give a player a yellow card for that?

But it was barely late and he hardly got anything on him. I'm not sure he even touched the signs until Tucelet joined in. How they decided what Coetzee did was worthy of a YC is staggering yet what Tucelet and Marx did in the same play warranted no attention at all. But thems the breaks...that is where our game has got to.

Not sure about screaming but I would imagine Hansen has yelled his racehorses home from time to time.

No "not completely one eyed" ....gee many should be thankful for small mercies.

well in that case he could have called a scrum for a forward pass :) the way i see it , Owens did not clearly see what happened but assumed it was just a lazy runner. he straight away gave a penalty. the touchie flagged it . Read pointed out to Owens the touchie. I do not know if there was any communication on the comms between touchie and Owens before the made the decision. then Owens asked touchie off side? touchie said yes and end of story. Read also did not contest the call. i believe had Owens gone to touchie in the first instance rather than making HIS CALL, there was a possibility that the touchie may have advised at least to review if not a straight yellow. that is the Power of Owens. noone argues with him.

For me it was a 50/50 call, had Lavanini not been red carded the referee would have let Coetzee's "late" challenge go.

I remember giving a penalty in a similar situation when I was refereeing. The law has been there a long for a while. I have seen many cases in test matches where it should have been used, but referees seem reticent to use it.

DUDE > am sure he does - am sure many do. that is irrelevant in this case. my point was in the context of this topic AND the fact that the try was awarded only after review AND the fact that at no point in that review foul play was considered. we will never know if a penalty try would have been awarded for a head tackle HAD the grounding not been confirmed.

Well then why was there NOT A penalty to the All Blacks in 2010 against Aust in HKG? Aust has scored, Richie McCaw has made a tackle attempt, missed and is sitting on the ground with a dejected look on his face. Boofhead Quade Cooper runs up, pushed him in the head and runs off. The ref in that game clearly didn't know the rules i'd say

I have a sneaky that the reason it wasn't given a yellow is because Owens thought Smith's bullet was forward into Hanigan...

I was there at Ballymore, standing at the fence in the corner where Corozza copped his whack. I got hit by half full cans of XXXX by the Kiwis on the hill when the ref made his decision.

Early 2000's was at a Heineken (Euro) cup game in Glasgow versus Montferrand (now Clermont). Same scenario of foul play after the act of scoring. The try and conversion tied the scores with time up but the ref awarded the penalty on half way due to the game being unable to end on a penalty. As the Glasgow kick sailed towards the post the Montferrand players formed a circus-style human pyramid to bat the ball down as it attempted to crawl over the cross bar. Despite the laws saying players must stand still with hands by their sides during a penalty kick, and despite it being a deliberate knock on, the Irish ref (Alan Lewis) played a simple knock on advantage. None came and full time was signalled. The laws were immediately changed to prevent this happening in future. Lewis made an exit that Craig Joubert would have struggled to keep up with. Scotland (team) screwed again.

Just imagine the Henry/Hansen like screaming that would have gone down if they didn’t. When have you ever witnessed Hansen or Henry screaming? No seriously, I'd like to know

Get off it mate. It was that bad it would've been sanctioned. Penalty at best. If it was Coleman to a nz guy, and you know he does that stuff, then cheika wouldve defended him and said there was nothing in it