SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs
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@taniwharugby I'm also looking forward to it! Might head along to the Brumbies game next week. It'll have been a couple of years since I've attended a SR game against international opposition
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@snowy said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
@booboo said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
Just the vibe I got from the game is I'm not as down about the All Blacks as I was. Played at pace with great skill.
Foster.
Don't buy in to the hate.
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@crazy-horse I didn't think they were too bad. After sobering up I don't think the Chiefs played to win. However, if Will Jordan's tackle on Jonah Lowe was high infront of the tryline, that's a penalty try. If the contact is direct to the head, that's a red card. Bridge didn't even try to ground the ball in the ingoal area which is a penalty.
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@taniwharugby said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
I'm still comfortable with both Taylor and Reece's yellow cards, however, I think both, particularly Reece's warrants further inspection from the citing commissioner...that said, if either, particularly Reece's had been a red, I'd have agreed with it too.
Reece could have been a red given previous examples of similar tackles. It would have been unjust for Taylor to get a red in my opinion, it was a bouncing ball that Dmac jumped for and all Taylor knew was it was overthrown and he needed to make a tackle. Yellow was fair.
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@yeetyaah said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
Bridge didn't even try to ground the ball in the ingoal area which is a penalty.
Its only a penalty if he deliberately bats it dead, he doesn't have to try and ground it.
IMO he tried to hook at it to get it bagk to him, much like that attempt to intercept that doesn't quite come off.
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@yeetyaah said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
@crazy-horse I didn't think they were too bad. After sobering up I don't think the Chiefs played to win. However, if Will Jordan's tackle on Jonah Lowe was high infront of the tryline, that's a penalty try. If the contact is direct to the head, that's a red card. Bridge didn't even try to ground the ball in the ingoal area which is a penalty.
Yeah you totally should have won. Any team who can't or won't take advantage of a two man advantage really deserves to win.
Kind of reminds me of what I deem the Crusaders' nadir under Blackadder which was a miserable home game against the Sharks where they were down to 14 and 13 at one stage and we never even looked like winning.
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@kiwipie Dmac leapt to take another long throw later too.
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@crazy-horse said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
Imagine the kerfuffle if Razor finally gets the job and the ABs don't conquer all and sundry in style.
No pressure Mr Robertson.
Well the bar is set pretty low after last year .And if Foster carries on to the WC AB's will be in a mess.
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@taniwharugby said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
@kiwipie Dmac leapt to take another long throw later too.
The 8% beer I had consumed by then has fogged my memory of that event so I'll take your word for it!
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@taniwharugby said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
@yeetyaah said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
Bridge didn't even try to ground the ball in the ingoal area which is a penalty.
Its only a penalty if he deliberately bats it dead, he doesn't have to try and ground it.
IMO he tried to hook at it to get it bagk to him, much like that attempt to intercept that doesn't quite come off.
In the end he missed it so how can you give a penalty for something that didn't happen.
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@taniwharugby said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
@yeetyaah said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
Bridge didn't even try to ground the ball in the ingoal area which is a penalty.
Its only a penalty if he deliberately bats it dead, he doesn't have to try and ground it.
Exactly. Glad you agree Canterbury should have been given a penalty try when Auckland stole the Shield off us after Kirwan deliberately batted ball over the dead ball line at the end. We were robbed!
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McMillan's comments today around the 'controversial' decisions are pretty classy. Refreshing to read. Ricky Stuart might like to take note.
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@kiwipie said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
@taniwharugby said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
I'm still comfortable with both Taylor and Reece's yellow cards, however, I think both, particularly Reece's warrants further inspection from the citing commissioner...that said, if either, particularly Reece's had been a red, I'd have agreed with it too.
Reece could have been a red given previous examples of similar tackles. It would have been unjust for Taylor to get a red in my opinion, it was a bouncing ball that Dmac jumped for and all Taylor knew was it was overthrown and he needed to make a tackle. Yellow was fair.
I don't think Taylor should have got a red, but I don't agree with this, he was coming side on and had him in his sights the whole time, he could have let him land then hit him.
I don't think it should be minimised because of DMacs actions - it wasn't like the Lions game where then Lion jumped directly forward at the AB defender, Taylor had time to not hit him in the air.
Remember when Coles was our hooker we had to worry about for cards - Taylor has been pushing it far closer to the edge this year than Coles has.
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@shark said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
@yeetyaah said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
@crazy-horse I didn't think they were too bad. After sobering up I don't think the Chiefs played to win. However, if Will Jordan's tackle on Jonah Lowe was high infront of the tryline, that's a penalty try. If the contact is direct to the head, that's a red card. Bridge didn't even try to ground the ball in the ingoal area which is a penalty.
Yeah you totally should have won. Any team who can't or won't take advantage of a two man advantage really deserves to win.
Did you actually read what I said? I said they didn't play to win. They didn't deserve it.
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@booboo said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
@snowy said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
@booboo said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
Just the vibe I got from the game is I'm not as down about the All Blacks as I was. Played at pace with great skill.
Foster.
Don't buy in to the hate.
You should have added Luke, or Grasshopper, or something there, but a good tip thank you Obi-Wan or Master Po.
Actually not so much hate, he seems like a good bloke, just the lack of success as a head coach is a worry.
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@shark said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
Anyone mentioned the Dagg post-match interview with (I think, from memory) Richie, which might just be the least professional piece of sports broadcasting of all time?
Worse than Warnie asking every single aussie player how many stubbies they were going to have in 2015?
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@snowy said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
@booboo said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
@snowy said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
@booboo said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
Just the vibe I got from the game is I'm not as down about the All Blacks as I was. Played at pace with great skill.
Foster.
Don't buy in to the hate.
You should have added Luke, or Grasshopper, or something there, but a good tip thank you Obi-Wan or Master Po.
Actually not so much hate, he seems like a good bloke, just the lack of success as a head coach is a worry.
I prefer Master Shifu, Panda.
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@yeetyaah said in SRA: Final. Crusaders vs Chiefs:
@chris if it wasn't a penalty it should have been a Chiefs 5m scrum as he touched it last.
Not sure about the new flaw variation, but in normal laws it would have been a 22 as the Chief's put it into the in-goal area.
