Craig Smiths suspension and Slow Motion Replays

[Bebeto in Japan]

Craig Smith's suspension has been in the news last two weeks. He has a bad record, especially this year, but, should reputation go against him? Should a bad reputation effect a sentence? Do we have conclusive evidence that it was a pre-meditaded action?

This brings me to my second point. All I have seen of that incident is a slow motion replay of the alleged foul play. Now we can see Walter's injuries and nobody denies how he received those injuries. But was it an accident or was it intentional? Slow motion is NOT real motion therefore cannot be used to judge such an incident. The slow motion makes it worse in this case and I think the morons who sentenced Smith were watching that same slow motion footage and not the incident in real motion.

Any thoughts on the slow motion v real motion?

 

[imported_Go The Dragons]

Bebeto,

Excellent Point & 100% true.
To back yoiur point up. There are many tries awarded by the video ref, because, when the video is slowed down, they can generally find one frame where the players hand is on the ball & that is good enough for a grounding. What happended to having some sort of control of the ball.

There was a try given the other night, I think it was by Parra & the player tried to pick the ball up, over the line, lost the ball forward & then tried to reground the ball. The player (i cant remember who it was) didn't think thay had scored, but because it was slowed down so much, he was seen to have grounded the ball when he was trying to pick it up.

The video ref should be looking at both slow & normal speeds to come up with correct decisions.

IMO all slow motion video is damaging, if not directly related to the same incident at normal speed.