Bull Mania wrote:
Just on the biting incident, watching the highlights on you tube, the referee certainly doesn't see Taufua bite the Barrow player as he claimed on the TV. His exact words were "I've seen him bite him me, I have" but watching the Bulls highlights where you can see the ref for the whole incident, he doesn't react until the Barrow player comes running up to him making the claim. It's a good 5 seconds after the incident.
He's effectively given a red card without seeing the incident "despite claiming to" and has gone on nothing more than an allegeded bite mark on an arm.
I genuinely don't know if he's bitten him, maybe the mark is clear, but the ref saying "I've seen him bite him me" when he clearly doesn't. Just doesn't sit right with me that incident.
100% agree with this and was going to post something similar myself. The ref actually shouts "MOVE" after the player claiming the bite pulls away which strongly suggests that he didn't in fact see "the bite" at all.
Taufua makes no head movement towards the arm which suggests that the tackler must have had his arm wrapped around the head... penalty to us?
This will go against us again just as the GFS vs Bussey incident... no evidence of proof via the footage so they will go with the complainant as he seems a nice honest guy.
