Lesson learned

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

The ball is not dead on the whistle. In the case of a foul, it's dead when the foul occurs. If tref's partner deemed A34's actions to be a foul, then B34's backout occurred during a dead ball (assuming no try was in progress) regardless of when the whistles blew.

There's no try/tap, so yes, the ball is most definitely dead on the whistle. The whistle recognizes the foul and the ball is dead. Are you telling us there's still a foul if there's no whistle? I don't think so.

All three recognized a foul at the same time and whistled. L has a foul on A34, C and T have a foul on B34. That makes this a double foul. C and T dropped the ball by failing to report their foul on B34.

There is no dead ball foul in this play. That's an afterthought by tref to try and cover his mistake.