{"id":299925,"date":"2025-11-21T20:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/299925\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T20:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:12:11","slug":"nigel-owens-explains-why-codie-taylor-was-sin-binned-against-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/299925\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Owens explains why Codie Taylor was sin-binned against England"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nigel Owens has suggested that the sheer cynicism of Codie Taylor\u2019s action meant that a yellow card was warranted in last weekend\u2019s defeat to England.<\/p>\n

Speaking on this week\u2019s Whistle Watch, which was released by World Rugby on Thursday, the former Test referee went through the big decisions from the previous weekend.<\/p>\n

That included a sin-binning for Taylor when he knocked the ball out of Marcus Smith\u2019s hands while both were on the floor.<\/p>\n

First penalty All Blacks conceded<\/p>\n

It occurred just after half-time and up until that point the All Blacks<\/a> had not conceded a penalty, which led former players to claim that a yellow card was harsh.<\/p>\n

Rugby World Cup winner Stephen Donald was one such person to hit out at the call, saying on The Breakdown: \u201cYou can\u2019t say that a referee call in a result like this has decided it, but this was huge.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no hiding from the fact it was a momentum-killer for the All Blacks and it kick-started England<\/a>. There are so many questions around this. What\u2019s a TMO jumping in on this for and what\u2019s it doing to our game?<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were on no warning. We can\u2019t have sour grapes here because we lost by 14 but this was huge for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nigel Owens claims Springboks duo were \u2018always illegal\u2019 as ex-Test ref weighs in on red card controversy<\/a><\/p>\n

The All Blacks did not have too many qualms about the decision, however, and Owens<\/a> revealed why the TMO stepped in and Andrea Piardi issued a yellow card.<\/p>\n

Owens\u2019 explanation<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s the first penalty of the last penalty, if there\u2019s been 30 or if there\u2019s been five, if a referee feels that the actual player is cynical \u2013 it\u2019s deliberate, he knows exactly what he\u2019s doing, he\u2019s killing the situation there and then \u2013 they would get a yellow card without a warning,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the times when we see a yellow card for technical offences is when there\u2019s been repeated infringements or the referee\u2019s given a warning or it\u2019s near the try-line.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this instance, the New Zealand player is on the ground, he\u2019s now out of the game. He can do nothing to get back on his feet and what he does is uses his hand and knocks the ball out of the possession of England in a cynical action.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe TMO comes in here and sees this. If something is cynical in this deliberate knock-on type of action, the TMO can come in, so he tells the referee that this is cynical.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the match officials feel that if the action is so cynical and deliberate that it warrants a straight yellow there and then, even though the penalty count may be low.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Tetchy Scott Robertson claps back as All Blacks boss interrupts reporter over \u2018dramatic\u2019 question<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigel Owens has suggested that the sheer cynicism of Codie Taylor\u2019s action meant that a yellow card was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,1208,818,1182,1736,44,74931,760,85],"class_list":["post-299925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-england","tag-home-page","tag-internationals","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-nigel-owens","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}