tvoc wrote:
The first of those penalties was some nineteen minutes after the previous Leeds indiscretion. Had any one of those offences prevented a near certain try or a quick play the ball against a disorganised defence then perhaps a sin-binning would have been called for but as it was I don't think Thaler even got to the point of issuing a warning.
Whether that was the right or wrong action/inaction on the referee's part is a matter of opinion.
I haven't watched the full game.
But I'd question the decision to give a scrum when the Catalans player was supposedly "accidentally offside". If the knock on from his team mate had shot out at him, if he'd made an attempt to get out of the way, then I'd have given accidentally offside.
But the ball bounced up in the air and he just stood there like a gormless statue and let the ball hit him. The chance for us to mount an instant attack on a zero tackle was then lost. So the correct decision IMO is to give a penalty and give Leeds the opportunity for a kick downfield. He shouldn't have been rewarded for inactivity when he'd been wandering round the pitch offside.
