HADthe French initiative on clocking goalkickers been transferred to New Zealand, the Lions would have been in even more of a pickle. Two of their penalties, one in each of the first two games, would have been disallowed.
Ironically, Johnny Sexton and Leigh Halfpenny have each had ample experience of the time constraint imposed in the Top 14 where kickers are allowed 60 seconds from pointing to the posts and striking the ball.
Sexton took more than a minute over his one successful penalty against the NZ Barbarians, Halfpenny even longer over the second of his three against the Blues.
That i...