How come you are replying the the comments on Fusco. the ref said the TMO would be checking

I think that the ref should have had a look on the TMO to review the lineout in the England vs Wales match.

My partner is an ex football referee and he says that the covering defender rule is a variation on the DOGSO rule in football. Where if a foul is committed and there's a chance of a goal no matter what the foul is the defending player must be sent off

Amen. Also Nigel explaining at 08:23 that the French tackler caught Price on the hand and that it's therefore only a penalty, when Sheehan also held his hand between his body and Faiva...

It's sad that the answer is in the video. As Nigel says, the attitude has to change. Now the quest is "will be referees able to make those decisions in important game or will they just make them on the teams that have no way to be on top?". Imagine if there was a red like that on the game played at Paris between French and Irland, there would be a global scandal on journals, even arguing how the referee had made a call that killed the 6nations competition without even a moment of consideration. That's the problem. It's easy to say "we have to change attitude of the players" for a game in wich Irland would had won even if they were 14 vs 15, it is not when your choice can "decide" your career. Sad.

Because it was chest on chest.

@@cathalsheehan9596 it was chest on head.

@@MorAodhan I know you want to believe that but sadly for you that isnt the case, chest on chest hence why there was no sanction.

The occasional cow moo and rain on tin roof would be fine. Almost Jack Hargreves. “Out of Town”

It was such a confusing moment for many of us!

How do you feel Ireland performed over the weekend despite being against 13 for a large period?

@@WorldRugby didn’t take enough advantage but quite frankly we were as confused as Italy were and started second guessing ourselves. That’s why we saw sexton brought on to enforce concentration, he’s certainly an intimidating general on the pitch

@@WorldRugby can you explain why every referee is strictier with italy then with every other team?

@@gigiproiettili8985 I know you feel that way and it’s hard to argue with feelings and it also goes to the emotion and all that comes with it. But….every team at some point in the. 6N feels that they have been hard done by. It’s just a fact. I can guarantee you pretty much all the English fans felt like wales got away with murder last year when they beat us. We couldn’t believe the decision making. Every replay reinforced belief. But it just happens. It’s tough but that’s just how it goes. Stay strong!! I wish you guys well against Scotland this weekend.

Whistle Watch or on the field... I don't know which I prefer

So true

If not Nigel, then who?

Yeah, I met him at a Farmer's show, great lad, really nice man to talk to as well, love him.

So much packed into this week! Do you think he missed out any other things that you would like clearing up?

@@WorldRugby not for me !

Literally the moment we've all been waiting for!

Hahaha oh yes we did!!!

interesting, per tournament as opposed to top 5 overall! What are your favourites from all the games in the above comps?

@@WorldRugby WC = Ireland v France 2015, I don’t watch the Rugby championship because I live in Ireland, 6N is a hard one, Ireland v France 2018 maybe or Ireland v England 2018, URC = any game where Munster beat Leinster, Champions Cup = Munster v Biarritz final I’m a bit biased

True fact.....Owens likes it up his entrails.

He went in with shoulder but I still think it a bit harsh because it wasn't malicious because as you said.

Yes it has to be a significant drop in height rather then a dip for bracing. had the tackler made more of an effort to go lower then it could have been argued as mitigation, but as he tacked upright it would be very difficult for referees to deem it a significant drop in height

@@aidieslater8351 it could be considered a mix of both Faiva standing upright and anyway trying to make a fair tackle and Sheehan carrying the ball in an "angled" position - ok, tenth of a second for the whole thing...I thought Tmo could had been more merciful

@@giovanniciappelli2659 yes I agree it's not fair. But in that situation the tackler is always going to be at most fault because he is a tackler and not tackling low. That's just how it works across the board, and the other way round I wouldn't argue otherwise. It was clear within the new laws, sadly

Salut Philippe, je vois qu'on regarde les memes choses.

I totally agree, and i don't understand why they are doing this. Italy is a very poor team, always losing by an average of 30 points and with no chance of winning, they shouldn't play also against the referees

Completely different .its confusing I agree .

The devil's in the detail. 'Lost control' doesn't mean 'no longer has it in possession' but more a case of 'no longer in control of what is happening'. With a grubber kick, chip kick or a drop goal, the action is deliberate. You plan to release the ball, you plan to kick it. That's not a knock on because there's no loss of control over what you're doing. if you didn't have control of it and you kick it after it hit/touched you. If you deliberately mean to let go and kick it, but miss the kick and it bounces, that's a knock on too, because you lost control when you missed the kick.

You're so sweet, with your knowing opinion, giving advice to The Man on how to view the incident, can I just as how many international rugby matches you have refereed? 🤨

It took me about two days of reading, how are you coping? Has Nigel helped at all?

@@WorldRugby 🤣🤣🤣

Everyone who played Wales last year were... Ireland had a red v Wales for a high tackle as did 3 other matches. Insanely good luck for Wales last year. Played 14 men 4 out of 5 games... Bunde akis red was in particular a joke nowhere near as high as the Italy one which i thought was soft but hearing nigel explain it I understand

They didn’t, Scotland pushed early France couldn’t bring him down. And does that really matter when Scotland was barely a sparring partner and the game wasn’t one by 7 points ?

@@Onyx5021 rubbish, they held him up far too long. that's why the ref warned them

@@adamcarreras-neal4697 if that was the case it would have been penalty lol… ever see a ref warn a team for a penalty offense while it happens under his eyes ? No he penalizes when it’s the case, guess it wasn’t

@@Onyx5021 to be fair the commentators all noticed it. Watch it back, you can see Woki being held in the air by his own props at least 3 times.

I really like that idea, but I'm sure the club's would not be happy, most especially the club's of the players that end up in the winning team. That's a lot of time to have your talent tied up in internationals and a lot of games where your talent could be injured....

@@MKR5210 I understand but it would be about the best teams among the best in the North hemisphere . It would make it even more interesting. Unknown prodigies from undermined countries would have the opportunity to be acknowledged. Exiting. Who says there is not another Dupont like, in new coming rugby nation?👌🙏

@@MKR5210 japan world cup would be the best example. 👌

We all miss Nigel on the pitch but wouldn't we miss him on our screens too?

Thinking the same thing.

as far as i onderstood the ref and as far as i have seen it, it seems to be that the majority of the collision is body/body; body/ legs and the hand into the face had no force behind it (Jaminet even tries to pull it back); you can see Skinner grabbing his ribs/abdomen? after the collision showing where the force went. TMO and ref deem it contact in air (both jumping; Skinner with ball) --> only penalty

@@RB-xc9wg but how can say that Jaminet had a legitimate chance of catching the ball? Thank you for the explanation, I still think though that jumping into an opponent is not in the rules of the game

@@callumduncan2561 correct me if im wrong but i said: "TMO and ref deem it contact in air" which is just an illegal tackle more or less --> penalty; i didnt say he had a chance to catch the ball, he was way too late

What are your predictions for the rest of the Six Nations?

@@WorldRugby Scotland come back for their first ever championship win 😎😎😎

Round 4 France Scotland England

Yeah this bit wasn't explained clearly! hopefully I can help a bit. This is how the order goes and the laws behind it. i) There's a red card to the replacement hooker, making an initial ratio of 7:7 forwards to backs. Front rower Nemer comes on for a back (making it 8:6) but is no hooker, so the inherent player welfare risk of him trying forces uncontested scrums. This has been seriously underplayed in the reporting, but it's a huge reason for the rule. A makeshift hooker is an accident waiting to happen, so uncontested scrums were inevitable. ii) There's an automatic penalty of one player being removed if a team forces uncontested scrums, because an opposition can't tire you out with heavy scrum work against your technically weakened pack. Anything else would either be a welfare risk in a full contested scrum, or unfairly penalise the side that's caused no infringement with not allowing them to scrummage but having no recompense for that. So Italy go from 15, to 14 for the red and finally to 13 for forcing uncontested scrums. iii) Under the laws of the game, uncontested scrums MUST have eight players in them, to stop teams losing a man in a pointless scrum to help plug holes in a defensive line. That forces an 8:5 ratio. iv) So why the number 8? Technically it doesn't HAVE to be the number 8. However, when an uncontested scrum happened, Italy was going to have an 8:5 ratio regardless of who's on the pitch, so they might as well turn the Number 8 into a utility player and not a specialist. Far better to have a nimble back who doesn't need to push at 8, who can whip off the scrum and plug the gaps in the line and then cover more ground quicker, than a traditional Number 8 who can't scrummage anyway and who also can't cover the ground quickly to help defend the line. So it's a case of 8:5 at the scrum, but then 7:6 the rest of the time, giving you a better hope of defending or even attacking quickly. I agree it feels harsh. But there's no real way around it. There were instances where teams were using the substitutions to force uncontested scrums if they were getting battered in them and that's not fair. If there's no extra penalty, I could also conceive of a team manufacturing a red card to a hooker if it meant uncontested scrums to save the energy that would be burnt in the scrum for defending the line. They are rules brought in to stop teams cheating. If we could only stop them doing that, it'd make the ref's game a lot easier!

I think the point about protecting the game is important! What other laws do you think effect the game negatively?

@@WorldRugby Once a high tackle would be penalised, but if it was considered deliberate then further sanctions against the player were applied. Normally a red card. I feel that this was always consistent with the ethos of the game. if you make a mistake you would be penalised if you willfully disrespected your opponent or deliberately endangered them then you were removed from the game. We are always responsible for the safety of others within the strictures of our circumstances. But I played rugby because of the contact, the risk, the danger of it. But most of all because of the camaraderie that those things gave to us all. I waged war against the opposition and then, regardless of the bruises or the result drank beer and laughed with my opposite number. The best referees I played under may not have been perfect about the laws but were perfect in their application to allow the game to be enjoyable for the players and the spectators. I was lucky. Now referees are not the sole arbiter of law, they cannot choose to let the game flow. A TMO will whisper in their ear and the game stops, spectators loose their emotion and then the contest is reduced by a player. Reducing the contest. I'm sorry. That is quite a rant. But I could go on for much longer. In short. Our game was the best team sport in the world as anyone who played will testify. But it is becoming less because of the constraints of laws.

That's one rule I've never seen any consistency with

Wales are not England's equal 😆

Equals - i'm sure Nigel would agree 😬 Do you think England will go all the way to the title this campaign?

@@iidentifyasafriedeggjellyf8007 they are, 39 six/five/home nation titles each if my memory serves me. Only difference between England vs Wales is one world cup and 5 or 6 wins in Englands favour. Wales do fantastic considering their shortcomings in terms of player choice, club scene, infrastructure.

@@taffyducks544Are you seriously gonna pull out that card? Wales have so many foreign born players... They have a huge amount of players to pick from in England...

@@taffyducks544 Also 6 more wins is nothing to sniff at & so isn't a World Cup...