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Geoff the Ref

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254 total appearances

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DSPN - Devlin Sports Podcast Network
Jeff The Ref: Should Tip Tacklers in Rugby be Sin Binned?

72 minutes.

DSPN - Devlin Sports Podcast Network
Jeff The Ref: Should Tip Tacklers in Rugby be Sin Binned?

So this is the thing.

DSPN - Devlin Sports Podcast Network
Jeff The Ref: Should Tip Tacklers in Rugby be Sin Binned?

He had a couple of things to deal with during this game.

DSPN - Devlin Sports Podcast Network
Jeff The Ref: Should Tip Tacklers in Rugby be Sin Binned?

One, of course, was that shop tip tackle on Dunchay.

DSPN - Devlin Sports Podcast Network
Jeff The Ref: Should Tip Tacklers in Rugby be Sin Binned?

And then here, 72 minutes, Henry Bell gets yellow carded with a head clash with Nick Frost.

DSPN - Devlin Sports Podcast Network
Jeff The Ref: Should Tip Tacklers in Rugby be Sin Binned?

We've got a couple of angles on this.

DSPN - Devlin Sports Podcast Network
Jeff The Ref: Should Tip Tacklers in Rugby be Sin Binned?

The first angle you look at, it looks as though Frost... And this is the thing about television.

DSPN - Devlin Sports Podcast Network
Jeff The Ref: Should Tip Tacklers in Rugby be Sin Binned?

You've got to remember...

DSPN - Devlin Sports Podcast Network
Jeff The Ref: Should Tip Tacklers in Rugby be Sin Binned?

Every angle shows something else, gives you another picture, literally.

DSPN - Devlin Sports Podcast Network
Jeff The Ref: Should Tip Tacklers in Rugby be Sin Binned?

It shows him look as though he leans in there and almost goes for the headbutt.

DSPN - Devlin Sports Podcast Network
Jeff The Ref: Should Tip Tacklers in Rugby be Sin Binned?

If that's all you saw, I'm thinking I'm penalising Frost.

DSPN - Devlin Sports Podcast Network
Jeff The Ref: Should Tip Tacklers in Rugby be Sin Binned?

When you look at it from the other angle, he actually tries to duck his head down.

DSPN - Devlin Sports Podcast Network
Jeff The Ref: Should Tip Tacklers in Rugby be Sin Binned?

So there is a bit of subtlety there.

DSPN - Devlin Sports Podcast Network
Jeff The Ref: Should Tip Tacklers in Rugby be Sin Binned?

But it comes back to Bell and he's coming in again from quite an oblique angle.

DSPN - Devlin Sports Podcast Network
Jeff The Ref: Should Tip Tacklers in Rugby be Sin Binned?

I just don't know how he gets out of the way here.

DSPN - Devlin Sports Podcast Network
Jeff The Ref: Should Tip Tacklers in Rugby be Sin Binned?

What's he actually meant to do here to avoid getting a yellow card for face on face?

DSPN - Devlin Sports Podcast Network
Jeff The Ref: Should Tip Tacklers in Rugby be Sin Binned?

And again, if you watch this in real time, we're talking a fraction of a second here.

DSPN - Devlin Sports Podcast Network
Jeff The Ref: Should Tip Tacklers in Rugby be Sin Binned?

But it's a face-on-face, and I don't know whether or not a referee at that level thinks of the way that they'll be assessed afterwards and everything else.

DSPN - Devlin Sports Podcast Network
Jeff The Ref: Should Tip Tacklers in Rugby be Sin Binned?

A face-on-face, if you don't award anything there, that would be as unusual as anything in the game, wouldn't it?

DSPN - Devlin Sports Podcast Network
Jeff The Ref: Should Tip Tacklers in Rugby be Sin Binned?

And that one you think could have actually just been, oops, thank God neither of you got injured here.