Blues v Highlanders

[Machpants]

Nonu has done his job, but in no way standing out like an AB (or an Akira 😉) should

[taniwharugby]

@Machpants he let Banks rip the ball off him

[Kirwan]

Yellow card coming up

[taniwharugby]

that Robinson looks handy.

[antipodean]

Penalty. Blues 6 contributes by reaching for the offload.

[Steven Harris]

@taniwharugby was a hell of an offload..!

[Tim]

@taniwharugby Been into tonight. Good to see him getting more impact as he gets more experience.

[taniwharugby]

@antipodean and he jumped as well...should only be a penalty IMO

[Tim]

Jeez, bad night for Naholo.

[antipodean]

@Machpants said in Blues v Highlanders:

Hansen's call, are we sure?

Jeez Naholo looking crap

Definitely not his best game by any stretch.

[broughie]

I hate those calls especially when it was a nothing.

[NTA]

@Kirwan said in Blues v Highlanders:

Yellow card coming up

I seem to remember Naholo getting carded for something similar previously 🤔

[Kirwan]

Our maul work still needs work.

[Machpants]

I've given up trying to guess the result of these calls, I have no idea anymore

[taniwharugby]

@NTA usually tackling people who are jumping for a catch.

Oh now Parsons gets subbed

[African Monkey]

@Kirwan We never seem to improve in that area.

[NTA]

@Kirwan said in Blues v Highlanders:

Our maul work still needs work.

Yeah that is a strange call from the Blues - the scrum is getting mullered so the likelihood is low of your maul doing any better

[Kirwan]

Far out, finally get some traction at the scrum.

[Stargazer]

@Machpants

IIRC, the questions should be:

• did he go over the horizontal; if yes,
• did the tackler try to bring down the player safely; if no,
• where did the player land (back = yellow; head/neck = red)

I don't think it's about driving a player onto the ground as the commentators said.

But I may be wrong ...

[antipodean]

I'm no scrum expert, but that looked like the Blues were hard done by.