'It's foul play, it reaches the yellow card threshold, so it's going to be a yellow card and off-field review.'
ANYONE WHO HAS watched rugby in the last few years knows how tedious and interminable foul play reviews had become.
The trialling started in Super Rugby earlier this year, continued at the World Rugby U20 Championship in June and July, and on into the current warm-up matches ahead of the big show. While World Rugby hasn’t confirmed that the system will be used at the World Cup just yet, it looks like a fait accompli.
Even before the second replay, O’Keeffe has turned to assistant referee Frank Murphy, and says, “I’ve got a yellow card for sure” and Murphy is clearly in agreement.“Yep, so Ben, we’re going to go yellow card,” says O’Keeffe. “We’ve got foul play that reaches the yellow card threshold.
World Rugby has not yet started listing FPROs with the rest of the match officials, so we don’t know who was in that role in this instance. “So the yellow card was reviewed by a TMO and it’s going to be upgraded to a red card,” explains O’Keeffe. “There’s contact with the head, he comes from distance, there’s a high degree of danger, and there’s no mitigation involved so he’s going to stay off for the rest of the game.”
But the governing body has also said that referees should use only “a small number of replays” to look at the incident. Indeed, it’s understood that they’ve specified that referees view just two replays and get on with it.
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