Let off: Samoa’s Rey Lee-Lo should have been red-carded
I’m not a fan of World Rugby, primarily because it seems to me to be becoming increasingly irrelevant to the future of the professional game, but for better or worse they are in charge of the RWC, and they have hardly covered themselves in glory thus far.
For a while now it has been clear that the tackle area was likely to be a flashpoint, and that’s exactly what has transpired. The signs were there that coaches and players are confused by the inconsistency regarding tackling, and World Rugby were warned that this ...
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