Stormers v Blues

[KiwiMurph]

Blues only have themselves to blame but that is a ridiculously bad yellow card call.

[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.