Are Bristol the new Sarries ?

The whole thing was hugely funny especially when Afoa seemed to say "sod all this arguing I'll just go and stick Genge's head up his backside and we can all go home".

My take from that was that the laws clearly need looking at.

Even if you'd taken away the whole touchline debacle and Afoa had just come back on with no delay, the effect of the yellow card, especially with the clock already being in the red, was not to penalise Bristol at all, but in fact to hand them an advantage, as they got to bring back on a first rate prop who'd just had a nice 40 minute rest to square up to Genge, who'd been taking his replacement apart despite having played the full game!

Yes, I know they had to take another player off to make up for Afoa coming on, but at that late stage of the game, the advantage to being able to hold up in the scrum was always going to far outweigh the downside of losing a back...

They must have indicated that they wanted the scrum again - perhaps expecting that either it would go uncontested or Genge would maintain his edge over Bristol, and not having calculated that a refreshed Afoa would be a more potent threat - as the whole tocuhline debate wouldn't have kicked off if they didn't need a replacement prop on the field. Once they'd made that call, and it had been determined that Afoa needed to come on, it was too late to change it. Though i dare say that if Borthwick or the captain had said "Look, sir, if they're going to play silly buggers can we change our option and go for the tap?" it would have been allowed.

I sort-of agree, but if it was an advantage, why did Leicester decide to take the scrum again? They could easily have tapped and gone, or gone for the lineout instead.