weird play

[bcl1127]

One of my fellow officials and I were just talking about a play that happened to him this past week. K was attempting a try, and the R player got a good jump, jumped over the holder who had the ball on a block (without touching him or touching the ball) and knocked down the player who was beginning to make his move to kick the ball. Apparently the kicker delayed his movement to the ball allowing the R player to jump over the holder.

Now, the confusion came where the referee threw a flag for roughing the kicker, which in this case his partners talked him out of, because the player had not become a kicker yet as he had not contacted the ball. Apparently the play was not something they could call for unnecessary roughness, and they ended up waving off the flag, saying the try failed, and moved on.

Apparently the coach went wild, and so on.

Thoughts on how this was handled by the crew?