Stormers v Blues
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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.
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@KiwiMurph He's a shocker. He should be thrown out of the game.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Stormers vs. Blues:
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.
I just watched a vid of that now, tit looked like the Stormers player was getting up, saw Duffie coming and dropped down again - Duffie probably should led 'arms' first but I assume he was heading at fill tit across the field to try and make the covering tackle.
I wish that league and rugby would get a balance right, league have reverted to not giving a shit about anything and rugby have gone all Bones on us ;).
Here's the vid:
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@Nepia
That was like a referee horror show with a climax at the end!That try was given huh? You can blatantly propel yourself along the ground like that then?
(insert that emoji with the twirling finger meaning dumb or crazy - the same one I can't fucken find in that smiley list thing)
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The try where De allende crawled close to.the line and next player played it off his feet and basically was part of the ruck too, was baffling.
As for the Duffies second yellow, I reckon there should be some responsibility on the ball carrier, his own actions made the situation dangerous there. If he does stand up like he, Duffie hits him around the hip area, fair tackle.
But the thing is, you just need to play good enough to take these kinda calls out of the equation, that's what the better teams do.
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@Bones said in Stormers vs. Blues:
Blues lose, blues fans whinge and blame ref. Quelle surprise!
Funny the people whinging about Treeby not being carded are remarkably quiet on Ofa not seeing a card...
Was this deleted due to the use of non-English? It's easily translated, but very sorry...
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@Bones Lol as if it's just Blues fans whinging about the refs. Every supporter on here whinges about the reffing in games.
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@African-Monkey to the extent of blues fans, every week and every loss? Methinks not. Remarkable difference between blues threads and other NZ teams when the blues lose. Check the Crusaders-Chiefs thread...
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@Bones I think people just enjoy posting about the Blues tbh
especially as we are the worst in the conference. I haven't noticed it as much as I feel there are a lot of unbiased Blues fans on here and yes I did have a go at the video ref as he has always been rubbish throughout his career but as I have said earlier in this thread, we should not get ourselves in the position to let the refs decide the contest in the first place as you are going to cop a few roughies in SA being the touring side.The blame for this loss falls squarely on Umaga and the captaincy team for not drumming the importance of discipline over there into the players heads, not the refs perfomance. Plus I feel we gassed badly and our subs made very minimal impact.
