Nigel Owens, the former referee in the game of Rakhbi Nigel Owens, the star of the controversial Wells Toulobi Valeto, explained against Scotland in the six countries during the weekend.
At the last moments of the match, Blair Murray carved through the Scottish defense with impressive operation, before creating Faleetau when it could have been an exciting attempt.
With the Wales crowd for a return, this attempt, if successfully converted, would give them an opportunity to turn the game on her head. However, the referee Andrea Pierre, after consulting TMO Eric Gauzins, decided to exclude the attempt, insisting that Murray’s jump on Will Hurd was an illegal act.
Wales’s fans were angry at the decision, and asked why tolerate the attempt, but evading the treatment in the same way is not.
“It is different if you jump or dived to record the attempt because it considers your actions to try the attempt instead of jumping to avoid treatment,” Owens said, as Owens jumped on social media, responding to comparison with Tom Rogers’s remarkable landing against Ireland – where Rogers jumped on James Louis for registration.
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