Webbo wrote:
Well said. The kick on Whitehead wasn't malicious - the ball was there to be hacked, then Whitehead was on it. Harsh to give an additional penalty.
His misjudgement to let Pryce score was obviously the result of knowing that if he caught it on the full, he'd almost certainly be bundled into touch. The ball could have bounced anywhere (looked most likely to go touchwards), but it popped right up into Pryce's hands. Sheer bad luck.
His sin-binning was undeserved.
I have some sympathy for the guy tonight and there is an element of bad luck here, but in all 3 cases he actually made the wrong play.
- He should have been throwing his body at the ball/Whitehead, not his leg.
- He should have put his body between Pryce and the ball.
- Bizarre sin-binning, but equally he shouldn't have done it.