Stormers v Blues
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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. -
@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
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@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.
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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
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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.
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Only saw highlights but looked like ref had a mare. Stormers players seemed to quite regularly play the ball even though tackled.
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@Tordah said in Stormers vs. Blues:
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
His first yellow was a team yellow. It was given after multiple penalties conceded by the Blues. He was just the unlucky one to get the card.
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What a shitty game. Blues were in it until the last 10 or so.
Ref went a good deal of the way to help the Stormers. who were flying in off their feet at every ruck. Should have been at least a couple more YCs for Stormers in that 2nd half.
Disappointed with SBW who should have rallied the troops and led by example, but instead dropped the ball cold a couple of times, preferred to get involved in handbags(playing right into the Stormers hands) and carried away from support too often, to find himself isolated
Red cards this season are a bloody joke.
Tana needs to go shopping for a decent first five - and sharpish. Gatland is just plain rubbish. -
@Crash said in Stormers vs. Blues:
Tana needs to go shopping for a decent first five - and sharpish. Gatland is just plain rubbish.
Yeah Gatland didnt offer a hell of a lot when he came on. I thought the Blues lost a lot of shape when Francis came off.
Assuming Perofeta can get through club rugby today unscathed I think its time to him to be given some game time in these last few games.
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@KiwiMurph Fully agree. You're always up against it in SA with the officiating but the players/coaches should know this and not give the officials reasons to penalise us in the first place.
SBW dropping the ball hot on attack when we were up 19-10 was a game changer imo.
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I can't believe that some of you are already writing Gatland off and saying he's rubbish. He's only 141 minutes of Super Rugby under his belt. I'd give him more than one season before writing him off and give him a chance to learn and develop further. Geez
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@Stargazer My point was Perofeta was picked in the Blues squad ahead of Gatland for a reason. I want to see what he's got. From the little i've seen he looks very promising.
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The play that led to Duffie's second yellow was pretty reckless. Stormers player still on the ground and you dive in off your feet is a penalty. You dive in knees first into the ribs like that and that is dangerous play.
But the Blues still had their chances. They looked good in bursts, they're just lacking that consistency which often allows their opppsition to get back into the game or keep it close.
The Stormers have to be one of the worst attacking teams in Super rugby. They were pretty good defensively, but their attack has so little variation. It wasn't surprising to see passes being shelled by fatties because it was like shock that they were even receiving them.
