And that's what's happened in rugby. It looked pretty straightforward when the rule was introduced but the way it's now been expanded is IMO detrimental to the development of the game. I was for video replays in rugby but having seen the dog's breakfast they've become, I'm dead against them in...
You clearly didn't see the rugby on Saturday. As I said, one replay lasted eight minutes and several more were three or four minutes.
It's the creep that gets me: when TMOs were introduced in rugby there were about one or two a game and they lasted about a minute, now there are about seven and...
FIFA have been trying to get commercial breaks into football for years. The introduction of video replays would have enormous appeal for advertisers as it could introduce breaks of a couple of minutes into every half.
Take last night, there would have been a break for at least three of the...
I'm really unsure about video replays - one of the TMO decision in the Eng/Aus match took eight minutes. If you have three or four in every game, that's nearly half an hour added on.
It may be acceptable if they ended controversy but they don't: Australia and Scotland both thought they were...