Posts by Jimmy Southgate
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Rule 12 A throw forward occurs when a player throws or passes the ball forward. 'Forward' means towards the opposing team's dead ball line.
Yeah im not convinced that video is right, so through a work colleague im hoping to get one of our current NPC referees to clarify.
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"Nope. We had some impartial South Africans scrutinise it, and they were unanimous: not forward. Good try though."
Interesting stuff on forward passes:
If I have time I might analyse the 2 passes in question with that enlightenment on the rules.
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"(offside? What's that?) but at least in the latter area he was consistent"
I had to stop lurking just to respond to this, because I have been waiting for someone to say it since Sunday.
Surely consistency in his offside rulings cannot be measured due to the large imabalance in possession? Don't forget one of the crucial stats in analysing the game is France's 180-odd tackles to 30-odd (I think that's about the right ratio).
It seems then, that the All Blacks would have had very few chances to actually be offside, Barnes' rulings could only provide a real benefit to France in that area.