Rhubarb & Custard wrote: Fri May 23, 2025 10:30 am One could look at that late Saints score and simply consider it's a two man tackle that doesn't stop the ball getting offloaded, and so you'd want a word with two players wasting resources in defence, addressing that which you can control. Or you could blame the ref.
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Lobby wrote: Fri May 23, 2025 10:48 amIt was pretty clear from the discussions between Pearce and the TMO that Pearce thought it was forward and was looking to the TMO to provide him with enough evidence to overturn the on-field award of a try. But the TMO kept insisting that the pass and try was fine. When Pearce kept questioning him, the most he would say was that, after looking at all the angles, there was nothing conclusive to overturn the decision. Pearce even apologised to Itoje when explaining why he couldn't overturn the decision.
So your ire should be reserved for the TMO.
Having said that, Saracens had benefitted from forward passes earlier in the match that were missed by the ref and TMO, most notably when Daly's pass to Gonzalez travelled about 10 metres forward before Gonzalez caught it and scored, so these things even out in the end.
It wasn't a penalty try. Goode would still have pushed him out had he waited the 0.3 seconds for Dingwall to fall the extra 15cm. And there was literally no Saints player within 30m of Dingwall when he passed it back.Brazil wrote: Fri May 23, 2025 4:09 pm It cancelled out the very obvious penalty try for a tackle in the air that Pearce weirdly talked himself out of earlier. That and giving saracens extraordinary latitude in the ruck on the line, and all of the forward passes that were missed in previous tries. Pearce had a bad day at the office all over the shop, but mercifully it all balanced out and the right team won.
Turns out it needed to stop it, and it didn't. So agin you could tell Daly not to make an ineffectual tackle assist, Earl doesn't need his help and Daly doesn't stop the offload, and Daly could then tackle the carrier, or one could look at the system Sarries use in defence which clearly has benefits but here one gets the downside of Tompkins having run himself out of the game (granted no system is without issue) so he too isn't there to make a tackle, and he could have been.Kawazaki wrote: Fri May 23, 2025 2:44 pmRhubarb & Custard wrote: Fri May 23, 2025 10:30 am One could look at that late Saints score and simply consider it's a two man tackle that doesn't stop the ball getting offloaded, and so you'd want a word with two players wasting resources in defence, addressing that which you can control. Or you could blame the ref.
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The double tackle did stop the ball being legally offloaded.
