Did Steve Walsh rob the Sharks?

John: "Hey Jim, did you hear they broke into ABSA Park last night?"
Jim: "No, did they steal any cups?"
John: " No, they didn't go into the kitchen!!" :D :D
 
James said:
Apparently on Total Rugby they have the final 10mins of play and there were 5 clear infringements, they more I read and "investigate" the more this thread about Walsh robbing us the more sad I become as nothing can happen to the result, it will always be a Bulls victory and in 6 months it won't even be an in-just victory any more as people will just forget.

This is a very sad time for Sharks supporters, it is a pity sanity did not prevail and Butch take that last conversion to nullify the refs short comings.
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It's a pity the Bull(sh*tters) cannot be stripped of the title the way Juventus was. Maybe it's time for things like this to change?

It's even more of a pity that we can't have a public flogging of Steve Walsh!
 
AmaZulu said:
It's a pity the Bull(sh*tters) cannot be stripped of the title the way Juventus was. Maybe it's time for things like this to change?

It's even more of a pity that we can't have a public flogging of Steve Walsh!
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You need to give it a rest. Your continued rantings just devalue a great Sharks season.
 
AmaZulu said:
It's a pity the Bull(sh*tters) cannot be stripped of the title the way Juventus was. Maybe it's time for things like this to change?

It's even more of a pity that we can't have a public flogging of Steve Walsh!
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wow u must be obsessed with this, all my friends are Sharks fans , im the only one thats supports the bulls and they not even carrying on like u are.
 
ubberfunk said:
wow u must be obsessed with this, all my friends are Sharks fans , im the only one thats supports the bulls and they not even carrying on like u are.
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To be honest, never has a match had this effect on me before! I am usually over it by the next day :(

Hopefully this weekends rugga can help the process.
 
I'm actually traumatised by this and I can understand now why some New Zealanders had to have counselling when we beat them in the '95 World Cup.

It feels to me like something in the Universe shifted at the end of that game. I can only explain it as Divine Intervention (although many will say that God has no interest in rugby).
 
its over

lets focus on the international rugby i say , u never know what us saffars might do in the up and coming world cup:D

tbh i would swop the super 14 title for world champs any day.
 
I see the reffing did not slip past the brits either

timesonline.co.uk said:
The Bulls managed to regather the ball and set off. The officials seemed to miss a blatant knock-on in the fateful move – symptomatic of a match in which the New Zealand officials were decidedly shaky
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source
 
Amazulu, could you do us a favour and least how many incorrect decisions Steve Walsh made against each team?

The point I try to make is that if he made one incorrect decision against ANY of the teams, that changes the match. You might say it was a missed knock on by the Sharks in the Bulls 22 that lead to nothing. However we have no idea what could have happened had the ref called that decision correct.

Ultimately incorrect ref decisions are a facet of most sports (something that I feel should not be accepted).
 
K well here is photographic proof (this was after the knock on)

you dirty thieving bastids

Please also note how many people are off there feet at the break down and of course the playing the ball on the ground/hands in the huck.
 
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James said:
K well here is photographic proof (this was after the knock on)

you dirty thieving bastids

Please also note how many people are off there feet at the break down and of course the plaing the ball on the ground/hands in the huck.
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That's evidence of a player playing the ball on the ground yes, but what happened prior to that. How did the ball get there? You say it's a knock and I say a Sharks player played the ball on the ground first and the Bulls player scooped it back.
The only thing we've learned from this game is that the Sharks are the worst bad losers ever to grace the face of this earth.
 
Give it a rest guys. After how the Sharks won the match against the Blues in New Zealand, they have absolutely no right to complain about bad refereeing decisions...
 
Why is it always like this when South African teams loose!!! Always blame the ref no matter what!!!
 
Lastag said:
Why is it always like this when South African teams loose!!! Always blame the ref no matter what!!!
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There are VERY VERY large grounds for all Sharks supporters to be very unhappy with this anti-climax to a brilliant season. Even with their mistakes they should according to the rules have won that match. If that is not grounds to be upset with the ref then I don't know what is!
 
James said:
There are VERY VERY large grounds for all Sharks supporters to be very unhappy with this anti-climax to a brilliant season. Even with their mistakes they should according to the rules have won that match. If that is not grounds to be upset with the ref then I don't know what is!
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The rules unfortunately mean nothing if they are not applied by the ref ;)
 
''Rugby experts are agreeing that a refereeing mistake is likely to have cost the Sharks the Super 14 title. Kiwi ref Steve Walsh has been quoted saying match officials did not see an incident during a ruck in the last minute of the game when the Bulls scored their winning try. ''
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Even the ref agrees that we shoud've won :D
 
The pain of the Super 14 final defeat by the Bulls won't go away for the Sharks, and the wound opened a little deeper on Tuesday when Kiwi referee Steve Walsh admitted that the match officials missed at least one infringement by the Bulls in that last mad minute leading up to Bryan Habana's title-clinching try[James : I can't agree more to that].

As Walsh was arriving at the Sharks 22 at the ruck that preceded the Habana try, a Bulls player knocked the ball on, and then there was a deliberate act of illegal play when a desperate Bulls player lying in the ruck used his hands to steal the ball back from the Sharks' side of the ruck.

All of this occurred at the feet of the New Zealander touch judge, who seemed paralysed into inactivity, and remained frozen even when Walsh looked across to him to give a call when the ball miraculously shot across on to the Bulls side.

Walsh said that he had watched TV replays of the ruck and said the replays suggested there had been a crucial error.
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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=6&click_id=192&art_id=vn20070523072334404C265651
 
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