Force v Chiefs
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I'll read through the match thread soon but my thoughts on the ref and TMO.
@crucial I agree that Kearney wasn't in a position to stop a try by Tiatia so that was a cop-out by the TMO.
The TMO had two different rules for penalty tries and YCs for each team. If Jacobson gets a YC and the Chiefs concede a PT then so should the Force and Anstee, who wasn't part of the maul and blatantly comes in from the side to make a tackle. The evidence that Harris grounded the ball was inconclusive but it should have been 7 pts for a PT. Somehow it was neither.
I also thought that the other YC for Jacobson was BS. The reverse camera angle shows he did roll West-East and wasn't slowing the ball down. Put that down to Murphy and an incompetent TMO.
I'll add that Justin Harrison is such a muppet as a commentator.
That said, the Chiefs' discipline was poor and McMillan made some bad selection decisions. Tiatia had one of those games where he was determined to offload in every tackle. Apikotoa has been a liability in the scrum in 2 consecutive games now. If Mafileo was fit he should have played. If Kahui didn't score Apikotoa probably gets a YC for repeated infringements.
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@crucial said in Force v Chiefs:
The cover would have got there to attempt a tackle but hardly a certain or likely thing that they would have prevented the try. I betcha if that played out (removing the slap down) there would have been a 90% chance of a score.
It was a really good post until you jumped the shark. 😂
There's no way that was a probable try.
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@bovidae so Tiatia having a poor game and making handling errors will still definitely score that try huh? He's still got to catch the ball, beat Kearney hands down and then place it.
That's a lot more unlikely than it is likely and certainly not probable.
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@bones Tiatia's problem wasn't catching the ball it was his passing once he had it. I'm confident he wouldn't have needed to pass there.
If Kearney was directly in front of him defending then no problem but he was running across the field and Tiatia had plenty of space to run to the corner flag.
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@bovidae I think the angle Kearney had made it even easier for him to defend, he was on the move and shutting down the space on the angle, not squared up and prone to footwork. It's that easy to reason it's most likely not a try, which makes it definitely not probable.
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@bones said in Force v Chiefs:
@bovidae I think the angle Kearney had made it even easier for him to defend, he was on the move and shutting down the space on the angle, not squared up and prone to footwork. It's that easy to reason it's most likely not a try, which makes it definitely not probable.
Bloody hell man. It was a simple catch and dive.
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bit like last week a lot of these calls are a 50/50 in that some weeks they go your way and next week they dont.
tiatia for mine wasnt a pt but both of Jacobsons cards and albs could have gone either way, in fact in jacobsons first card carnt see what he was penalized for. -
@crucial said in Force v Chiefs:
@bones said in Force v Chiefs:
@bovidae I think the angle Kearney had made it even easier for him to defend, he was on the move and shutting down the space on the angle, not squared up and prone to footwork. It's that easy to reason it's most likely not a try, which makes it definitely not probable.
Bloody hell man. It was a simple catch and dive.
😂 Simple indeed.
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@ploughboy said in Force v Chiefs:
bit like last week a lot of these calls are a 50/50 in that some weeks they go your way and next week they dont.
tiatia for mine wasnt a pt but both of Jacobsons cards and albs could have gone either way, in fact in jacobsons first card carnt see what he was penalized for.Being the only jersey number the TMO could see I think.
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The way Tiatia was playing it was more likely to be a try for the Force at the other end of the field.
