Super Rugby 2017

[Fulcrum29]

yellow card for neck tackle - same player does it and it's all good ... love consistency

Yet a double warning is given to both teams and only the Kings get carded for not rolling away.

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

neck play is neck play, if one team is carded instantly, why not the other. Refusing to see that speaks of your bullshyte.

 

[Fulcrum29]

The Sharks are going to have it hard against the much improved Sunwolves next weekend.

 

[faniebraai]

neck play is neck play, if one team is carded instantly, why not the other. Refusing to see that speaks of your bullshyte.

And a warning is a warning... but the Kings have been horrible at the breakdown.

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

Heh, take the shyte for what it was, a forward pass try awarded, a neck grab not penalised ...... kings can pretend to be magnificent *shrug*

 

[Sl8er]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!
YES!

 

[SlowInternet]

Well done Kings !

 

[Fulcrum29]

Heh, take the shyte for what it was, a forward pass try awarded, a neck grab not penalised ...... kings can pretend to be magnificent *shrug*

Yah, and the Sharks are saints. Better win next weekend, if not they will be the second SA team to lose to the Sunwolves. Pride and all that.

 

[faniebraai]

Well done Kings! Deserved winners

 

[Vrotappel]

Well done Kings!!

 

[Vrotappel]

I guess Mickey's gonna get plastered tonight!

 

[Agent_Smith]

Fantastic result, incorrect pick be damned!

 

[faniebraai]

I guess Mickey's gonna get plastered tonight!

Did you not see​ that old dude celebrating? That's him

 

[bwana]

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I see me

 

[greg0205]

Really not sure where to put this but... Our Blitzbokkies just became 2017 HSBC World 7s champions.

Just kicked off a semi against NZ in Paris, but it's all academic for the title. Scotland just beat England, the only team who could catch us on points in the other semi so Neil Powell's boys are champs.

 

[DanDango]

Is Pat Lambie’s career in jeopardy?
http://www.iol.co.za/sport/rugby/super-rugby/is-pat-lambies-career-in-jeopardy-9118817

This was a fantastic game of rugby, ultimately won in dramatic fashion 35-32 by the Southern Kings at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth on Saturday night.

But what a pity that it could be overshadowed as being the occasion that has possibly ended the career of a great talent in Patrick Lambie.

The desperately unlucky 25-year-old has had the most wretched run with injuries, with a number of them involving concussion, and rugby fans across the country would have felt terrible for the Sharks captain when he banged heads with teammate Rhyno Smith half an hour into the game and left the field for a concussion test shortly after, and did not return

 

[Sl8er]

Really not sure where to put this but... Our Blitzbokkies just became 2017 HSBC World 7s champions.

Just kicked off a semi against NZ in Paris, but it's all academic for the title. Scotland just beat England, the only team who could catch us on points in the other semi so Neil Powell's boys are champs.

Still OT:

I laughed so hard when I saw this!
(This was live on tv...and was shown twice. Once when the BB were playing NZ and then in the final again. Bob Skinstad was eerily quiet when it came on. )



:crylaugh:

 

[Cray]

Is Pat Lambie’s career in jeopardy?
http://www.iol.co.za/sport/rugby/super-rugby/is-pat-lambies-career-in-jeopardy-9118817

Injury coming in 3...2....1

I take it back!

 

[Fulcrum29]

Michael Litch is leaving New Zealand. Next year he will be returning to the Japanese national team, but has given his intention to put Super Rugby aside. The man is going on a sabbatical, it is going to be a hard battle to lure the man to the Sunwolves side.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Whoo! Criticism incoming...

Snyman - 4 weeks.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/...s-four-week-ban-after-red-against-highlanders

Bulls lock RG Snyman cops four week ban after red against Highlanders

Bulls lock RG Snyman has been banned for four weeks following a reckless shoulder charge in his team's loss to the Highlanders on Sunday [NZ time].

Snyman has been suspended from all forms of the game, up to and including June 9, after his 71st minute indiscretion on Highlanders' replacement hooker Greg Pleasants-Tate's face at a ruck.

The Sanzaar foul play review committee accepted a guilty plea from Snyman for contravening Law 10.4(h): A player must not charge into a ruck or maul.

...

In his finding, Foul Play Review Committee chairman Nigel Hampton QC ruled the following:

"Having conducted a detailed review of all the available evidence, including all camera angles and additional evidence, including from the player and submissions from his legal representative, Marius Botha, the Foul Play Review Committee upheld the citing under Law 10.4(h)."

"With respect to sanction, the Foul Play Review Committee deemed the act of foul play merited a mid-range entry point of six weeks primarily due to the dangerous nature of the act and the direct contact with the opponent's head. However, taking into account mitigating factors including the player's good judicial record and early guilty plea, the Foul Play Review Committee reduced the suspension to four weeks."

The Sanzaar Foul Play Review Committee of Nigel Hampton QC (Chairman), Stefan Terblanche and Stephen Hardy assessed the case.

Naholo - 1 week.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/...naholo-banned-for-a-week-by-sanzaar-judiciary

Waisake Naholo banned for a week after early guilty plea

Highlanders wing Waisake Naholo has been banned for one week by the Sanzaar judiciary.

The foul play review committee has accepted a guilty plea from the All Black after he was sent off for a late charge in the Highlanders' 17-10 win over the Bulls last weekend.

Naholo has returned to Dunedin and will miss the Highlanders' game against the Western Force in Perth on Saturday night.

...

Highlanders assistant coach Mark Hammett said he was "disappointed" for Naholo, but respected the judicial process.

"We acknowledge it's [contact to the head] an important area of the game that has to be taken out completely," he said.

"It's obviously an area that everyone is looking at, particularly from a judicial perspective, and you've just got to be really, really careful, whether there is intent or no intent."

Naholo appeared miffed when the referee plucked the red card from his pocket with the Highlanders forced to play the final 17 minutes with 14 men.

But he pleaded guilty at a judicial hearing before the foul play committee comprising chair Nigel Hampton QC, Stefan Terblanche and Stephen Hardy on Monday night.

Hampton said in a written decision released on Tuesday that the committee found Naholo's actions "breached the red card threshold".

However, "having considered the referee's description of the incident and the available video footage', the foul play review committee amended he charge to Law 10.4(g) - Dangerous charging or obstructing or grabbing of an opponent with or without the ball, including shouldering."

"With respect to sanction, the committee deemed the act of foul play merited a low-end entry point of two weeks," Hampton, a Christchurch-based barrister, said.

"However, taking into account mitigating factors, including the players' good judicial record and early guilty plea, the committee reduced the suspension to one week.

Submissions were made on Naholo's behalf by his legal representative Aaron Lloyd.

I know that the two incidents are unique in nature, and one’s actions are more severe than the other, but Naholo should have received 4 weeks. Inconsistency here. He also has 2 aerial high tackles against his name which is also not necessarily the player’s deliberate action, but is reckless under the law.

Strange, oh well. Snyman should work on his discipline. Young man, should not make it a habit.