The pole wasn't meant to be there? How do we kick goals then?
The rules basically say that if the ref gets caught like that in that circumstance, its the same as obstruction. And if that was a Dogs player instead, all anyone is looking at is whether they had lost an opportunity to make the tackle. On that basis, the decision is a no brainer.
Is the decision a suck decision. Yes. What I'm laughing about is the:
- Nikora non send off and the
- forward passes in just about every set from the Sharks of which non were called
had a bigger impact on the result than this and yet, here we are still talking about this decision and the kicking try. Go figure.