Didnt he catch the ball that had been kicked off??
For completeness Dickson also removed the water carrier from the game for preventing Twelvetrees from gathering the ball which had gone out of play. Twelvetrees was carded for reacting to the water carrier's actions. Both correct decisions in my view.
Both correct decisions. My main gripe though is that if twelvetrees hadn't reacted, I highly doubt the water boy would have been penalised at all. They only looked at his actions because twelvetrees reacted. It's well and good saying he shouldn't have reacted, but there's far too much interference from waterboys generally. It'd be good to see some sort of post-match penalty for this sort of thing. Not sure what, but something significant enough to stop teams doing it
Didn't Easter once get carded for interfering in one of our games?
I recall Graeme Bowerbank once catching the ball which occurred the wrath of the referee but can't remember if he was carded.
That was disgraceful by the Sale water carrier, clearly cheating to stop Twelvetrees taking a quick lineout within the final minute needing a try. Should have the whole library thrown at him not just the book. What else is Twelvetrees supposed to do? A joke that he was yellow carded. Also how the hell was that not a Gloucester penalty for the retaliation by Curry?? All this following an earlier TMO & officials breakdown on the Du preez head high charge. Not a great day for all concerned. Shame really as it was quite a good game.
It was
Will Skinner who was red-carded while on the bench for the second occurrence of Quins personnel handling the ball when not allowed to during
that win against Toulouse,
The waterboy intervention irritated me a lot and I'm not a Gloucester fan. Not the sort of thing we want to see in rugby, as it was reminiscent of a football game.
Not the first time Yarde runs in unnecessarily - good I suppose to see him do it to another team and bit just quins.
Also, with teams now having every tom dick and Harry as waterboy to deliver tactical messages now seems as an important time as any for them not to be unsportsmanlike.
I recall Graeme Bowerbank once catching the ball which occurred the wrath of the referee but can't remember if he was carded.
The ref spoke to him and he was disciplined by the club afterwards.
The ref spoke to him and he was disciplined by the club afterwards.
I'm guessing that was the same game as the Will Skinner incident. You can see the video in the link in my previous post.
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