jirskyr
Well-known member
What I said actually is Warburton never touched the ball because of Faatape. That doesn't automatically equate to an assumption that Warburton was going to take possession of the ball.
And that is my main issue. Bombs are speculative. I have not seen and do not expect to see 100% of illegal kick defences sent to the sin-bin. It can reasonably be said that any bomb that drops near the tryline is some kind of "try scoring opportunity" and therefore any illegal play against someone attempting a catch, including an escort, should be sin-binned. But that's not what ever happens.
And so my question actually was: why are escorts not a sin-bin? What is the difference between fouling a bloke who has jumped in the air vs fouling the same player just before he is about to leap in the air? It's still a try-scoring opportunity in both accounts, if the kick is close enough to the line.
