The FFR refereeing department has reacted to the controversies linked to refereeing in recent weeks. The organization explained in particular that “under no circumstances does the broadcaster influence, through the choice of its images, a video call decision”.
The FFR is coming out of the woodwork on arbitration. After the recent controversies targeting the man with the whistle, and in particular during the end of the match at Stade français – Bayonne, the National Directorate of Match Officials published a press release this Tuesday to clarify the protocol linked to video refereeing during Top 14 and Pro D2 matches. “The National Directorate of Match Officials reminds that the use of video during matches is only a tool available to the referee, and to him alone, and that it responds to a precise protocol, which excludes for example the “captain challenge”, which would allow a team to ask to review images. Furthermore, it is necessary to remember that, in no case, does the broadcaster influence, through the choice of its images, on a. video call decision The referee thus takes responsibility for making or not a formal call, if he, one of his assessors or the video referee have the perception of a situation to be reviewed.
The Bayonnais, who led by three points ten seconds from the end of the match, did not all understand Mr. Nuchy’s decision, on the last regrouping of the match. Camille Lopez, the rowing captain, explains…
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Lopez’s anger
This Saturday, Camille Lopez notably let her anger explode following the meeting against Stade françaisrepeating the remarks he had made to the referee, Mr. Nuchy. “I told him that it was scandalous not to check (verify, Editor’s note) this action, not to come back on it. I told him that there was too much at stake for us. They are not surrendering take into account all the consequences of all that… For us, there was a fault”. Faced with this declaration, Pierre-Baptiste Nuchy responded in our columnsstating in particular that “Camille Lopez and the player suffering the foul (Thomas Ceyte, Editor’s note) came to try to put pressure on them. But the image, which obviously could have provoked a discussion, was not broadcast live during the transformation. SO not been aroused as it had been on a Bayonne test, in the first period, which I had canceled after having observed images on the big screen.
