Nigel Owens has used World Rugby's Whistle Watch to break down the Reinach-Roigard flashpoint from the Rugby Championship match, offering a clear officiating rationale for what looked like a contradictory set of decisions. On the penalty try, Owens is unequivocal — dominant scrum, New Zealand players off their feet and kicking the ball away, try would have been scored. The 'someone slightly on the angle' technicality doesn't outweigh the bigger picture. On the subsequent scuffle, Owens acknowledges South Africa initiated the tipping incident but argues the sequence matters: because Roigard made contact with Reinach after the try was already awarded, the score stood regardless. The penalty against the Boks was correct but minor — 'something of nothing' that many referees might have handled with a quiet word. On the yellow card question, Owens explains that scrum penalty tries almost never produce a card because the infringement is collective rather than individual — without a named repeat offender, the referee has no clean basis to card anyone. Owens also sidesteps the Roigard simulation debate without fully dismissing it, focusing instead on whether the penalty was justified on its own merits.