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Yellow card for tackling hard. Not high, arms wrapped, no lift, player lands arse first

Which Tyler wrote:Yellow card for tackling hard. Not high, arms wrapped, no lift, player lands arse first

From the camera behind the ref, you can see why he wanted to check it, but the other angles pretty much all show it's a fair challenge.
It's just below the line where any higher with that force and its a red, but it is below that line.

Listening to the ref, he's saying that the first contact is with the shoulder, with force, and then the arm wraps around afterwards, so that's the yellow.

He's entirely wrong, of course, but that's his reasoning. I can only imagine that he decided only to look at the first angle, made up his mind and then, like Stuart Barnes, refused to change it when presented with every other angle that blatantly contradicted his first impression.

Puja

saw it t'other day riddikulus

What a farce. That said, it's not the first timeand it won't be the last time an away team in France is on the wrong end of a terrible decision.

Plainly a bad decision. Doubly so as this was referred to the TMO. I can forgive a ref making a mistake based on one view, but when a TMO is involved and they still get it wrong it really is unforgivable.

Isn't there an offence for bringing the game into disrepute?

Did anyone else see Fifita hurdling the tackle for Wellington ?. That should've been a yellow regardless of there being no contact.