All Blacks v Ireland II
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@SimonAdd_2 said in Ireland II:
@Crucial said in Ireland II:
I think Malakai will cop this one for the team. Cane cited just to shut the feral Irish fans up so Fekitoa will get a decent punishment to keep them quiet.
Cane being cited is a black mark against O'Peyper and the TMO though. Basically it is saying that what they deemed as a penalty only was actually worthy of a RC. It's no as if there is further evidence than what they both saw.
Same thing happened in the Six Nations between England and Ireland. Ref and TMO looked at multiple angles of Brown kicking at the ball with Murray on the floor, decided no action was needed. Citing commissioner disagreed (although it was eventually dropped).
It's not a great look for the refs involved, but it has precedent.
That's what I mean. The refs get marked on their performance and only penalising a RC offence is a black mark.
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@Kirwan said in Ireland II:
Cane's citing is a joke.
If Fekitoa misses the next game, and Ben Smith is out with a mangled hand, and I assume Crotty is still out injured, then have we run out of centres?
ALB-Rieko. I'd actually quite like to see that, both hugely exciting players.
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@Kirwan said in Ireland II:
Cane's citing is a joke.
If Fekitoa misses the next game, and Ben Smith is out with a mangled hand, and I assume Crotty is still out injured, then have we run out of centres?
Was that for the head clash? Terrible call if so
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Crotty was always in line for this game and from what I heard he was running freely last week too, so expect highly likely he'll be back this week
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@No-Quarter said in Ireland II:
@Kirwan said in Ireland II:
Cane's citing is a joke.
If Fekitoa misses the next game, and Ben Smith is out with a mangled hand, and I assume Crotty is still out injured, then have we run out of centres?
ALB-Rieko. I'd actually quite like to see that, both hugely exciting players.
I certainly don't want to see that. Reiko showed in the ITM Cup that he really struggles defensively in the midfield.
He could be last man standing and might be given the jersey but I will be holding my breath big time.
In attack he's excellent but right now I'd love to see him on the wing.
Give the 12 jersey to Jordie Barrett and have ALB at 13 😎
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@canefan said in Ireland II:
@Kirwan said in Ireland II:
Cane's citing is a joke.
If Fekitoa misses the next game, and Ben Smith is out with a mangled hand, and I assume Crotty is still out injured, then have we run out of centres?
Was that for the head clash? Terrible call if so
It wasn't actually a head clash. Reverse angle shows it clearly
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@hydro11 one angle clearly shows their heads impacting, so how anyone can say there was no head clash is beyond me.
Similarly one angle of BB's try shows clear grounding, the other that was shown repeatedly on the big screen makes it look doubtful.
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That's about as clear as it gets. Unfortunate for Cane as I think it was unintentional and Henshaw did spin into him, but it's a shoulder to the head that knocks a player unconscious. He'll get a few weeks' ban.
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@taniwharugby He was damn unlucky. Cane wasn't even looking at the player, he was turning his head to avoid the impact!! Can't we have an inadvertent clash of bodies without blaming one person? The Paddy player spun around straight into Cane when he didn't expect it. You could argue that he headbutted Sam's shoulder
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@taniwharugby said in Ireland II:
ABs by 12 and under at $3.70 sounds a good option to me....
Did you take this?
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@ACT-Crusader Tamanivalu is in the squad too, and he and ALB have played together before. Losing BFA means you lose a back-up midfielder too in the 23. Naholo is NOT a centre as he struggles defensively on the wing.
Agree about Rieko - he's unproven in the midfield but could make the bench vs France with the injuries.
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@taniwharugby said in Ireland II:
@hydro11 one angle clearly shows their heads impacting, so how anyone can say there was no head clash is beyond me.
Similarly one angle of BB's try shows clear grounding, the other that was shown repeatedly on the big screen makes it look doubtful.
Two angles can't show different things. That angle was clear - there was no head clash. As for the Barrett try you couldn't see anything on the other angle because the opposition player was in the way.
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@hydro11 ah you being deliberately obtuse?
One of the angles I saw clearly showed a head clash, so I obviously saw something you didn't.
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@taniwharugby said in Ireland II:
@hydro11 ah you being deliberately obtuse?
One of the angles I saw clearly showed a head clash, so I obviously saw something you didn't.
Nah. The angle that shows head clash is an optical illusion.
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@Stargazer said in Ireland II:
Pat T is heading home for personal reasons. Don't think he would have played anyway, but hope for him it's not another bereavement.
Edit: old news, I see ...
His form has been very disappointing. I hope "personal reasons" doesn't mean he's be on the booze, or broke team protocol etc.
