Re: Jaque Fourie's try

On Jul 9, 7:19 pm, clegg <mynamehere_...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Apteryx wrote:
Jon.R wrote:

"Maxx" <sc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Surely it must be one of the best/most important tries ever scored by
a Springbok?  The bulldozing, the finish, the timing, the series etc
etc.   Up there with Januarie's at Dunedin last year.

Gotta love that Stuart Dickinson was the TV ref again - ala WC Final
and Cueto's non-try.

We used to hate him, and now he's done the right thing twice on huge
occassions.

How the wheel turns!

Just need to make sure he keeps hold of his xray specs that allowed
himto see that Fourie was not in touch, 'cos all the tv replays I saw
made it look far more likely that he was in touch, even the touch
judge was certain he was in touch.

No xray specs required, just the capacity for abstract thought (which
admittedly might be asking a bit from Dickenson). The replay from the
behind the players pretty clearly showed that no part of Fourie's body
crossed the touchline (even in the air) before he hit the corner flag.
And the replay from in front of the players (ie, from the dead ball
line) showed that he did not hit the corner flag till after he had
grounded the ball (a clear 3 or 4 frames after in fact). So, for anyone
capable of realising that it is the same player whether you see him from
in front or behind, and the same corner flag, and that he hits it at the
same time in both replays, it is quite clear that the try was scored.

And the touch judge was not "certain" he was in touch. If he had been,
the ref would not have referred it to the TMO - unless he himself had
been pretty certain that he was not in touch. The touch judge had
concerns that in the flurry of bodies going over the line, he had seen a
"blue foot" on the touch line. The TMO correctly confirmed that the
"blue foot"that could be seen on the touchline belonged to Brussow, not
Fourie.

Apteryx

Bang on. I thought he was in touch in real time, but that foot was
indeed Brussouw's. It would have been the worng decision to deny the try.

You all seem to have missed the point of the original post. The
legality of the try is not in question, I was asking (especially other
Saffers) if this could be the best/most important try ever scored by a
Bok?

I can think of others such as Hendricks v Oz in the 95 World Cup,
Rossouw v NZ in 98, Januarie's v NZ last year. I'd like to include
the disallowed try by Ruben Kruger in the 95 WC Final as well, but
it's not in the book. Also Bobby Skinstad's to clinch our first Tri-
Nations in 98.

Any others?


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