Bluebody
The Strategist
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Mbye touches his shoulder as he runs to rightly continue to contest and he upset his momentum? Zero effect on his momentum and his line!
These refs hide between a ruling that was put in place with a very clear intent. The intent is; you do not hinder a player without the ball, unless you're directly contesting for the ball. He was not hindered - touching his shoulder from the side and lightly behind had no impact whatsoever - and more likely would have helped him. If Mbye wanted to impede him, he would have grabbed or tackled him - nothing like that happened.
So yes he was penalised and technically should have been, but the intent behind the rule, that the rule is meant to serve, is completely lost in translation and common sense is meant to circumvent situations where the rule does not match the intent that the rules were creating for!
"The play did not impede his attempts to get to the ball by Mbye’s actions and from the touch of his shoulder" could have been easily stated and accepted - but no, let's just ruin a game with inept officiating yet again.
While to me Sutton is biased for me, orgasming on the result, any ref would have probably still ruled in the same way.. This game can be very cruel at times.
Having said that, we did not play to win, we only played to compete. Dumb decisions throughout the game and voodoo curse like mistakes! Frustrating!
Summary: Dumb Dogs + Dumb Refs = Another Dumb Loss
These refs hide between a ruling that was put in place with a very clear intent. The intent is; you do not hinder a player without the ball, unless you're directly contesting for the ball. He was not hindered - touching his shoulder from the side and lightly behind had no impact whatsoever - and more likely would have helped him. If Mbye wanted to impede him, he would have grabbed or tackled him - nothing like that happened.
So yes he was penalised and technically should have been, but the intent behind the rule, that the rule is meant to serve, is completely lost in translation and common sense is meant to circumvent situations where the rule does not match the intent that the rules were creating for!
"The play did not impede his attempts to get to the ball by Mbye’s actions and from the touch of his shoulder" could have been easily stated and accepted - but no, let's just ruin a game with inept officiating yet again.
While to me Sutton is biased for me, orgasming on the result, any ref would have probably still ruled in the same way.. This game can be very cruel at times.
Having said that, we did not play to win, we only played to compete. Dumb decisions throughout the game and voodoo curse like mistakes! Frustrating!
Summary: Dumb Dogs + Dumb Refs = Another Dumb Loss
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