Interesting start to your post. "If i was the referee".
As I sit here following a Christmas dinner with other rugby enthusiasts, and having consumed considerable amounts of Scotch, I home in initially on only these 5 words.
On reflection I actually only home in on one word of these 5. That is 'the'.
It is not something I could write. I may have said - "If I were a referee" - not "If I was the referee"!
Have you something you wish to share with us?
Anyway, you have filled ALL the boxes on this including the bit about the level of conviction that a try would have been scored by Red:
Not my words BTW.The crucial point here is that the ball has touched the corner flag not the post - the post is touch-in-goal but the flag is not!
I have found nothing to support this however. Does it come from a Law Ruling, has my research been inadequate or does it purely arise from the fact that the flag is not part of the corner post?