{"id":20053,"date":"2025-07-30T05:46:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/wr-backs-officials-after-lions-vs-wallabies-controversy-schmidt-escapes-sanction\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T05:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:46:38","slug":"wr-backs-officials-after-lions-vs-wallabies-controversy-schmidt-escapes-sanction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/wr-backs-officials-after-lions-vs-wallabies-controversy-schmidt-escapes-sanction\/","title":{"rendered":"WR backs officials after Lions vs Wallabies controversy; Schmidt escapes sanction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Joe Schmidt Avoids Sanctions After Rugby Controversy<\/h2>\n\nWallabies coach Joe Schmidt will face no disciplinary action for his comments on the controversial conclusion of the second Test between the British and Irish Lions.\n\nWorld Rugby boss Alan Gilpin confirmed that the findings of an ongoing review into Jac Morgan&#8217;s play will not be made public.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>I believe Joe&#8217;s comments have continued to respect the fact that match officials have a difficult job. I may not agree with the decisions that were made, but I don&#8217;t think he has questioned the integrity of our match officials.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Alan Gilpin, World Rugby CEO<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nGilpin, who was in Sydney to present the ticket sales process for the 2027 Rugby World Cup, backed the officials and confirmed that Schmidt would not be sanctioned for his &#8220;emotional&#8221; post-match comments.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0729%2Fr1525054_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Schmidt\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Joe Schmidt no enfrentar\u00e1 sanciones por sus comentarios sobre la jugada de Jac Morgan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nThe comment that could have caused Schmidt problems was that the decision not to penalize Morgan did not live up to the promotion of player safety.\n\nGilpin expressed his disappointment at the comments that questioned World Rugby&#8217;s commitment to player welfare.\n\nGilpin stated that the review will be completed in the coming days and that the findings will not be made public.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0727%2Fr1524510_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Jac Morgan\" title=\"\"><figcaption>La jugada de Jac Morgan ha dividido opiniones en el mundo del rugby.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nThe ticket sales process for the 2027 Rugby World Cup will begin with the launch of a &#8220;Superpass&#8221;.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Schmidt Avoids Sanctions After Rugby Controversy Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt will face no disciplinary action for his comments on the controversial conclusion of the second Test between the British and Irish Lions. World Rugby boss Alan Gilpin confirmed that the findings of an ongoing review into Jac Morgan&#8217;s play will not be made public. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[6449,890,5771,518],"class_list":{"0":"post-20053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-jac-morgan","9":"tag-joe-schmidt","10":"tag-player-welfare","11":"tag-rugby-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}