Waratahs v Rebels
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@stargazer I'm perplexed as to how the officials ignored that completely. It was pretty clear the ball carrier was stooping if Naisarani is bent right over to hit him, only thing he could have done is drop to his knees.
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@bones said in Waratahs v Rebels:
@stargazer I'm perplexed as to how the officials ignored that completely. It was pretty clear the ball carrier was stooping if Naisarani is bent right over to hit him, only thing he could have done is drop to his knees.
Just more shit refereeing from the unbelievably incompetent.
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@stargazer said in Waratahs v Rebels:
And another red card. Pone Fa'amausili (Rebels) sent off for basically the same thing as Naisarani.
This one was worse.
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I thought the ref tmo combo was very bad this match. Worst I have seen this season. Naisarani tackle had heaps of mitigation. Pone less so and perhaps a red card. The try review seemed nonsense as there looked plenty wrong in the buildup before and during the review period. But ref was determined to give a try and tmo did not want to disagree. If Rebels had lost then no doubt a big outcry. You get the feeling that refs and tmos are told the focus on specific things some rounds and the no mitigation was the theme this time. Really do need to look at players breaking off the maul and taking out defenders in front of the ball carrier also. I. E. Before the try from the ball rolled between the legs of the player in front.
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@derpus did Swinton throw the first one though. Look at first part of replay. They didn't seem to look closely at that. I thought Naisarani went in at mid chest and had no way of knowing the player was about to lower his head. My issue is with the quick call of no mitigation therefore red card.
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@nta said in Waratahs v Rebels:
Naisarani red: red all day. Sure he got down a little lower as he was running in, but then drove upward. Ball carriers height didn't change THAT much. Careless and lazy. He's not even looking, just going for the Hulk smash from about two yards away
Just watched again and tried to frame by frame. Ball carrier's height did dip after catching the ball. Legs bent more and bent from the waist. Just as anyone would do to brace for being tackled.
Tackler aimed for high chest before dip AND drove up. Bad technique that carries high risk of contact with head.
Yep, there was mitigating factors so the language used was poor in saying that there wasn't any. 'Mitigating factors not material' would be more accurate.
