The Rugby Thread - Part Deux

[netstrider]

The early tackle /trip was a slam dunk for me. Not entirely sure what the ref was looking at

The roigard breakaway was also lucky. If that went the other way we would have had a yellow card

14 pts lingered on marginal calls

This time we got the rub of the green

Roigard was offside. If he wasn't, the tackle would not happen.

That's fair, in my mind.

 

[netstrider]

They must also look at the forward pass before Hannekom's "controversial" tackle.

My point is, the Boks were well on top the whole game. Took them 32 phases to score a try at one point. Great job on them for managing to do so, but you can't play a rugby match like that for 80 minutes.

 

[cavedog]

I was listening to Sky the whole game with Jeff Wilson and Justin Marshall. Even Marshall, who I usually think is fair, could not stop moaning about ref decisions.


This is part of the problem, because when you go to Stuff.co.nz and over to Youtube, they moan about the referee because that's what they are fed on their television sets.

They are asking why the TMO went back to Roigard being offside.. I mean.

Nobody is ever better than them either. It's "Boks on roids" or "Ref crap" and "game was stolen from us" and "red card in final" etc etc.

For the record, they looked well on their way to be beaten before they got the red card in RWC 2023 and seemed to grow an arm and a leg after that.

I was quite surprised to see on the Breakdown that they are complaining about the TMO that went back to Roigard being offside at the ruck when the ref asked about the tackle off the ball.

Are they trying to suggest that the TMO should not mention clear offside and let a penalty try and yellow card stand? Crazy stuff.