Waratahs v Drua

Bones

Isn't that tackled without the ball on white 9?

Bones

Silly stuff from Drua. Fair yellow.

That is a very soft card in isolation - was there a bit of niggle before in the game also?

Yeetyaah

@bones heaps of niggle. Drua are quick to get a bit aggressive after turnovers and penalties. Almost like it's a contact sport.

Bones

@yeetyaah send them to the netball courts with that agression.

Crucial

@yeetyaah said in Waratahs v Drua:

@bones heaps of niggle. Drua are quick to get a bit aggressive after turnovers and penalties. Almost like it's a contact sport.

Can you blame them? So many punchable faces in that Tahds side.

Steven Harris

Clinical from the Tahs ,can only play whats in front of you ..just like i suspected Drua discipline starting to empload.

NTA

Watching from the stand, this isn't a great refereeing performance. Several rucks before that intercept were clear blue infringements.

Steven Harris

Swinton no arms ..!

Yeetyaah

So much potential in this Drua team. Hard to say whether or not they'll iron them out this season but we'll see.

bobily2

It looks like Baden Kerr is playing 15 now - interesting, he was never the most dynamic player.

Steven Harris

Bench has injected some energy for the Drua

NTA

Tahs reserve THP not getting his get under him. Deserved that. Easy fix tho

Bovidae

@nta said in Waratahs v Drua:

Tahs reserve THP not getting his get under him. Deserved that. Easy fix tho

Tauakipulu should have been yellow-carded well before Berry reached in his pocket.

barky1

So much of the ball shit from NSW not called. Their backs in the last play were way off side. Lucky to not have another two cards in the final minutes. Touch judges should be sacked

NTA

@bobily2 said in Waratahs v Drua:

It looks like Baden Kerr is playing 15 now - interesting, he was never the most dynamic player.

His service at 10 was slow and allowed the Tahs to apply simple rush defence pressure for 60 minutes

Duluth

Steven Harris

@barky1 I agree,buts it’s fair to say the Drua were really the masters of their own demise …you can’t make that many unforced errors and be that undisciplined and then cry that you didn’t get a fair shake from the officials ..in the first half the Drua did not hold the ball for any longer than 2 phases .
I really want them to be successful but to be successful you have got to master your own on field performance..
As a first up I was a tad disappointed because I thought they could have put the Tahs under way more pressure ,but imploded went it mattered ..still they will be an entertaining watch.

Crucial

@steven-harris said in Waratahs v Drua:

@barky1 I agree,buts it’s fair to say the Drua were really the masters of their own demise …you can’t make that many unforced errors and be that undisciplined and then cry that you didn’t get a fair shake from the officials ..in the first half the Drua did not hold the ball for any longer than 2 phases .
I really want them to be successful but to be successful you have got to master your own on field performance..
As a first up I was a tad disappointed because I thought they could have put the Tahs under way more pressure ,but imploded went it mattered ..still they will be an entertaining watch.

Can't disagree with that but it's still annoying when a team doesn't get a fair shake from the officials.

It's well observed that a team playing poorly struggles to get out of a slump when they aren't getting a fair crack. Any Blues fan of the Ali Williams as captain era can attest to that.

Steven Harris

@crucial the YC one irked me ,because if any one of the 4 Officials had picked up an obvious knock on the play stops there and then ..

Crucial

@steven-harris said in Waratahs v Drua:

@crucial the YC one irked me ,because if any one of the 4 Officials had picked up an obvious knock on the play stops there and then ..

That was also a good example of frustration and desperation that builds when the ref is only looking at one team.

You can understand how it happens. Two offences in a row makes the ref look for a third, and find it and so on.

The Silver Fern

Waratahs v Drua