‘It’s fine margins,so they have to be very clear. It’s a big Test match so you’d rather have one replay too many than two too little’
Ireland's Ronan Kelleher is tackled by Vincent Koch of South Africa in the first Test at Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria, South Africa. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho.It was déjà vu at the South Africa media briefing as national laws adviser Jaco Peyper answered questions in Durban just as he did last Monday prior to the first Test. It prompted an interesting and pertinent insight into several talking points during the Springboks 27-20 victory.
Peyper continued: “The TMO has got eight angles at the same time and would have seen a few of those types of actions in the lead-up in different rucks. So if you get points scored from they’re going to have to look at that turnover. “Factually, the player is off his feet, and he turns over possession. Sometimes you don’t want to step in touch but you’re in touch. Sometimes you don’t want to make that turnover when you’re off your feet, but you still do it, even though you don’t mean it. Factually: off his feet, turnover made. So try can’t be scored.”
Peyper was asked whether scrutinising every breakdown with the same forensics would lead rugby down a slippery slope in terms of the TMO interventions. “Yeah, I think if it’s a technical infringement but if it’s a player making a decision to go off his feet, I think that’s under a cynical infringement rather than a technical infringement.
“If they couldn’t prove facts that he touched the ground you have to stay with the on-field decision. If we were on the other side we would have felt aggrieved but if there’s a clear process it would have been followed.”
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