Stormers v Blues

[mencey]

I am sick of bias SA refs.

[Bones]

Wow, that was clear as daylight. Playing the ball on the ground.

[KiwiMurph]

How is that not a ruck when he picks it up?

[mencey]

As I said just fuckimg bias South Aferican ref.

[Stargazer]

I don't think it's biased officiating; it's just bad officiating.

[KiwiMurph]

I love how Collins comes fresh off the bench and looks like he's running in quicksand.

[mencey]

It seems that the decisions tend to go against non SA team from SA refs in general just IMHO.

[KiwiMurph]

Tuipulotu does some good things but he's very loose.

[KiwiMurph]

Game was there for the taking for the Blues. SBW otherwise had a good game but he completely shelled a pass that changed the momentum.

[Stargazer]

The Stormers have been very good at keeping Rieko quiet.

[Stargazer]

@KiwiMurph I don't think SBW was that good. One good offload that led to a try, but nothing else that says 'pick me for the ABs'.

[Stargazer]

So the Stormers are the only non-Kiwi team to take NZ scalps ...

[Bones]

Blues lost that.

[infidel]

Only watched the last 30 minutes of that, but the Blues were poor in that period, looked very poorly drilled, poor passes at the wrong time, errors, turnovers, not good.

[KiwiMurph]

Good intensity by the Stormers. Completely different side to the one that got bitch slapped in the South Island.
Gibson and Faumuina the Blues best. Ofa went well too I thought at loosehead. That's probably the Blues season gone. So close yet so far as it relates to being a contender. Some of the reffing calls were outrageously bad but Blues only have themselves to blame.

[Rebound]

@KiwiMurph said in Stormers vs. Blues:

Good intensity by the Stormers. Completely different side to the one that got bitch slapped in the South Island.
Gibson and Faumuina the Blues best. Ofa went well too I thought at loosehead. That's probably the Blues season gone. So close yet so far as it relates to being a contender. Some of the reffing calls were outrageously bad but Blues only have themselves to blame.

I don't get statements like this. The Blues only have themselves to blame yet this is a precise example as to how a referee completely influence the result of the game with shit calls. Not one shit call but multiple all going against the away team

[booboo]

@mencey said in Stormers vs. Blues:

It seems that the decisions tend to go against non SA team from SA refs in general just IMHO.

Haven't seen the game but read a couple of reports. (Campese directly accuses them of cheating in a couple of tweets. Don't hold back David.)

But the point of neutral refs is that incompetence can't be mistaken for bias or something worse.

It removes suspicion.

(BTW @mencey it's "biased". Bias is the concept. )

[Tordah]

wow, Matt Duffie with the most ridiculous RC I've seen in quite a while, neither of his YCs were even penalties IMO (he wasn't offside for the first, and the second was not a penalty - unless you get penalised for playing against a fucking midget who cries when someone runs into him)

Or what was the 2nd YC for? Had no sound but looked like a no incident to me

[Bones]

Referee had no bearing on the result.

[infidel]

The second yellow card for Duffie presumably for him flying in for an attempted tackle, which looked like no arms and then knees into the back of the Stormers guy, which Duffie tried to pull out of at the last moment, completely unintentional and didn't look malicious or harmful, perhaps a bit clumsy, card probably a bit harsh but not impossible.