@Care2much18 You're doing an immense service for the people of Ireland, all of it for free and probably should be delivered by the government but it's obvious it's not high on their list to tackle misinformation and racism. Thank you so much for doing this.
@ek_rugby@tommycahir Absolutely, he's always giving himself multiple options and willing to wait to the last millisecond before deciding. I think he's naturally a better reader of the game than sexton and he's not afraid of the contact either. Talk about great timing for the world cup!
@tom_fogarty@Dave04146749 If we're talking about deliberate knock on, yes it's a penalty but a yellow card would require a more serious scenario where a try scoring opportunity is involved. From Crowley's point of view he is in a lawful position to compete for the ball.
@Dave04146749@tom_fogarty There's nothing stopping you from knocking the ball out of someone's hands. If you use your hand to stop a pass going to hand, that's going to get you in trouble because you're stopping positive play.
@Dave04146749@tom_fogarty The ref actually signalled deliberate knock on and said he slapped the ball down. My thinking is the refs coaches have had a chat about it and decided to tell refs to nip this in the bud but they're using a made up law or badly misinterpreting current law.
@Dave04146749@tom_fogarty Crowley is on his feet, the tackler and counter rucking, so he's onside and allowed to play the ball. Ball is lifted, so ruck is over and open play. You have every right to play the ball out of someone's hands. In a tackle it's called stripping.
@NoPlanBGAA Definitely psychological. There were a few more players other than O'Neill, who made unforced errors but they settled in the second half. I think most people know this Limerick team have yet to click.
@CraicOfTheAsh I think it was always going to be Limerick but Clare must have needed time to figure out what they wanted in return off Limerick for future fixtures or gate receipts.