Ian Foster leaps to All Blacks captain Sam Cane's defence after World Cup final red

Congratulations to South Africa on going back to back and being first to 4... however I'm not going to overlook the elephant in the room.
 
I guess it was inevitable that the final of Rugby's showpiece tournament would be ruined and decided by the excessive head contact rules that have come into use in the last 4 years, and their subjective interpretation, which have already ruined a number of games for the fans.
 
Administrators can try to justify them on the basis of player safety and PC press (who are afraid of being osttracised by the establishment) can go along with them, but the Emperor has no clothes.
 
I believe the current situation is untenable and has to change. Rugby is a contact sport and the majority of head contacts that are currently being penalised with yellow and red cards are accidental and just an inevitable part of the playing the game, and, as such, will not become less frequent over time as a result of cards being handed out. Therefore If the purpose of handing out cards to discourage future infringements and avoid concussion law suits it's not working, and if you come back in 100 years time you will still be seeing the same types of accidental head contact incidents that occurred In this final (and other games over the last 4 years),
 
It will not be effective as a defense against any concussion class action that may be brought, because the majority of concussions in rugby fall outside of the curent head contact punishment rules anyway, and will continue to occur. Tacklers will continue to get concussed when their heads accidentaly come into contact with the ball carriers hip or shoulder, or when two tacklers coming from opposite sides of the ball carrier end up having a head clash, or when a player hits his head on the ground during a tackle etc. Also ball carriers very rarely punished for using their elbows to fend off tacklers, and, in fact, there appears to have been an example of this in the final which was not picked up.
 
One day there will have to be a rethink, but in the mean time games and tournaments are being ruined, or decided arbitrarily, by the subjectivity of the officials, for no useful purpose. (Note I'm not blaming the individual officials themselves, but the administrators who are issueing them with the instructions on how to interpret the rules)
 
 
Under the current rules Siya Kolisi should have got a red card, even though we know that no-one deliberately clashes heads with another player
However the subjective decision of the TMO was only to give him a yellow. In my view Savea is standing relatively upright, not crouched, so there is no mitigating factor. Kolisi's body position is irrelevant and so not mitigating. However if we must go there, then Kolisi initiated direct head contact and in my opinion only Savea's body position can be a mitigating factor. The fact that Kolisi is bent over and drives up is in no way mitigating, red card.
(But if I was running things it would not even have been a yellow)
 
 
Under the current rules Sam Cane gets a yellow card, which was later subjectively upgraded to red
In my view Jesse Kriel is crouching, in order to lower his centre of gravity as he drives into contact, which is a mitigating factor. 
Cane is standing in the normal position for a tackler, with legs slightly bent, and wraps his arms, so not reckless, and the ruling should have remained a yellow
(However if I was running things it would not even have been a yellow)

I don’t want to be hard, but Cane and only Cane is responsible for that red. He had every chance to lower the force or attempt to hinge but he didn’t. It is a poor tackle. As captain he cannot tackle like that. He has likely cost the team the world cup. He shouldn’t be demozid at all. It’s a split second in a game. But it ain’t Barnes fault, it ain’t the TMOs. He has only himself to blame there.

This is nonsense from Foster. The Bunker system not Tom Foley decides the fate of Players reviewed. He appears to be making a personal attack on Tom Foley here:

“We got the same behaviour from that TMO (Tom Foley) that we got during the Irish series last year. The same TMO. We expected what we got.”

Not only has the bunker decision got nothing to do with Tom Foley but he seems to blaming Ireland’s series win on Tom Foley!!!
This is also the third time during this world cup he has referenced the cards in the NZ-Irish Test series. Its clear the motive now: he was having a go at Tom Foley.

This is lame stuff: there was clearly a great deal of sour grapes in New Zealand over the series lost to Ireland but it seems that much of it was emanating from Foster himself. You cannot keep blaming TMOs for your losses. The two most monumental losses in the last 4 years for NZ have been the Irish test series and the World Cup Final. He was coach for both and he is blaming Tom Foley for both!

This World Cup , the worst in the history ruined by the clowns referees and TMO.
We have talking more about referees than about the game , there is a reason .
World rugby is desatreous institution.
New Zealand must boycott their competition.
But stop with Cane now . Foster and Cane will go together.
Cane is the symbol captain of the worst coach in the history and the worst all blacks team.
Razor will build the all blacks machine with his proper men and new generation youngers.