Brendan Gallagher

Brendan Gallagher: Not such a Goode day for ref Luke Pearce

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Brendan Gallagher
25 May 2025

I’m a big Luke Pearce fan, but must join the consensus that he – and his team of officials – didn’t enjoy the best of days at Northampton last week when the Saints staged their second-half comeback to defeat Saracens.
There was clearly a forward pass in Saints’ dramatic late try – by any criteria and law interpretation past, present, future, real or imaginary – although I would add, it was nowhere as near as forward as the Eliott Daly pass that set up a try for Juan Martin Gonzalez in the first half.
Those two poor decisions sort of cancelled each other out, but I’ve never been a big fan ...

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