France make two changes for U20 Championship final versus England

It's difficult to disagree with them when a player who enters a ruck with no intention to stay on his feet escapes a penalty because he hadn’t quite hit the ground at the moment he contacted an opponent ….. on the back of his head….. which is also supposed to be illegal.

If that had happened to Tom Christie you would be losing it and calling for a ban mate that simply isn’t in the spirit of the game.

Jac Morgan went fully off his feet to hit Tizzano square in the back of his head with shoulder on head contact.

If an aussie had done that to say Tom Curry, and gotten away with it, it would’ve been the apocalypse, Armageddon, people demanding the referee and all his assistants resign as well as the TMO.

That has been a penalty since 2015. Might as well throw out the rule book if referees won’t enforce it anymore

This is why world rugby is being sued. The laws demand player welfare, but when refs get paid off they don’t enforce it properly.

1) He went off his feet to dive into an aussie legitimately contesting the ball. What is the point in making sealing off illegal if the actions which lead to the ball being sealed off are not?

2) he contacted the aussie on the back of the head.

This series deserved a meaningful 3rd test.

Aussies can feel very aggrieved in my opinion.

Keenan 50%

Lowe 50%

Aki 69.2%

Jones 83%

Freeman 100%

Yes, we lost the 1997 series on the field, fair and square, no denying.

However, anyone who has done their research would have known that between the 1995 RWC victory and the record winning streak that started in 1997 under Carel Du Plessis, that SARFU was in a full blown crisis. Administration was a shambles, provincialism was rife, professionalism was ultra-disrupting. Ultimately, we conspired against ourselves, on account of so many key people that was involved in that disastrous two years.