Refreshing French Refereeing

[FishingWasp]

I noted a few instances at the weekend of what I considered laudable decisions from Messieurs Poite and Ruiz.

Poite awarded a penalty try at the first instance of the maul being pulled down - not having multiple resets
Ruiz enforcing the 5 seconds after calling use it - and no repetition needed as the ball was subsequently played quickly
Also a crooked feed was penalised (Though I can't now recall which ref it was).

I still found it frustrating that the French film crews can only seem to find the requested extra angles when it is two French teams on the field

Premiership refs please note.

[mike909]

Agree - noted much the same. Made for a better game in terms of reffing and the ball emerged quickly. Very pleased to see the 5 second rule enforced.

[Neils]

The problem is that not many of us have regular viewing of Top 14 so we don't know if it is regular for them or if it is a recent update.