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>What has happened to the group? I know that we are all eagerly
>waituing for Super League, but there are still a lot of issues around
>right now. So why has the group apparently gone into hibernation ?
I was wondering about that too, but things appear to have picked up again.
It was probably just that there was actually nothing much to talk about in those
few weeks, and I'm all for people keeping their gobs shut unless they
have something interesting to say.
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>I will try to launch a new thread concerning video assistance for
>Refs. Unless the camera is correctly positioned they will cause more
>controversy than Richard Russell on a bad day. At a recent Wigan game
>, Bradford I think, a touchdown was adjudged to have been short and
>the try was disallowd. The Sky pictures clearly showed that the try
>should have been allowed. I was directly above and in front of the
>"scorer" and I agreed with the ref. The camera can lie.
Sure the camera can lie, and its position is crucial, but I'd personally have
a lot more confidence in a well positioned, slow-motion, camera close-up
than in my own fleeting perception of action taking place in a fraction of
a second.
Personally, I'm happy with the idea of the camera having a role in
try decisions cos:
a) the continuity of play is always already broken in such circumstances
b) the wrong decision, at the wrong time, can completely reverse the outcome
of a game.
Having said that, I've yet to hear any convincing case for the camera being
involved in any other aspect of refereeing.
Yours,
Dave Fisher
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