Japan vs All Blacks
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@anonymous said in Japan vs All Blacks:
@nepia said in Japan vs All Blacks:
Is that Robbie Deans giving some comments?
Yes, and it's fucking annoying.
Luckily I just noticed it now - his half mouth opening talking style is quite distinctive.
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@taniwharugby said in Japan vs All Blacks:
@toddy er he doesn't do rucks and stuff
He was good for conceding an advantage there, probably wanted the maul to end coz it’s not his thing.
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Sure you want the TMO cnut?
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Well our defense isn't great, which was probably to be expected, but we're scoring at will.
Ref let that maul go for a long time though after it was shunted back twice.
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How fair was the penalty given that led to that try? I have my doubts that wasn't something that's been done by both sides the entire game.
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Laumape went too high, if he had gone low and stopped him it wouldn't have got there.
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This is very frustrating.
Hoping halftime sees them get a serious talking to about keeping it sensible and use possession.
When we keep the ball we can score easily, no need to do the stupid shit.
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@no-quarter yep, when they just let mauls keep going it's frustrating.
It's why players resort to illegal pull downs because the legal stop method doesn't get enforced.
This ref has been pretty poor all around to be honest. Don't like focusing on a ref but it has been notable unfortunately.
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Got a Hurricanes look about the way they are playing..!.
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@machpants said in Japan vs All Blacks:
Ref is just so bad, awful
Looks like he must be the next most senior official available after all Gallagher Premiership, Green King IPA Championship, Pro 14, Top 14, local club senior, senior reserve, Under 21s, Under 19s, Presidents Grades and all secondary school fixtures have had first dibs on available refs.
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Officials trying their very hardest to keep the Japanese in it:
Try 1. Pushes Jordie over with his arms.
Try 2. Knock on and offside
Try 3. No clear and obvious evidence of the try. (Balance if probabilities... maybe ... but uou shouldn't be awarding that).
Otherwise OK. A few passes pushed and minor errors letting us down.
PS. The jersey looks grey
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This is a scratch team, it's to be expected that they'll score against a team not immersed in ABs routines after a week together. It's perfectly acceptable too, at least the ABs coaches and nzru think it is. This was always going to happen. So NZ c/D is twice as good as Japan a, a team that has beaten the boks, other tier 1 teams, drew and closer losses too.
If Jordie and the ref weren't so shit, it would be 38-7, No problem with that.
