Brumbies v Blues
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@KiwiMurph He has absolutely nothing to whinge about. It's an effective style against sides that like to play up tempo but expect to give away a lot of penalties with it.
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@antipodean said in Brumbies v Blues:
Has this fuckwit given up refereeing the breakdown?
Even his positioning is awful
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@NTA said in Brumbies v Blues:
@antipodean said in Brumbies v Blues:
Has this fuckwit given up refereeing the breakdown?
Even his positioning is awful
This was entirety predictable because he was a pretty average 7s referee too.
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@Derpus said in Brumbies v Blues:
Yo NTA explain that last call? Looks to me like the Blues player is lying on the ball preventing a perfectly legal attempt at a pilfer?
The ruck is formed before the Brumbies player tries to play the ball with his hand. He is part of the ruck and needs to not try to play the ball. Pretty easy call.
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@Kirwan said in Brumbies v Blues:
@Derpus said in Brumbies v Blues:
Seriously can't catch a break. Fuck SR.
That was an epic game. If you didn’t enjoy that do you even like rugby?
Agreed. Not like it was a 50-point thrashing!
Both teams ripped in and while it was not high quality, it was fucking intense.
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@Derpus said in Brumbies v Blues:
Yo NTA explain that last call? Looks to me like the Blues player is lying on the ball preventing a perfectly legal attempt at a pilfer?
You want me - or anyone else - to interpret Murphy?
That's a language nobody else speaks.
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@Derpus said in Brumbies v Blues:
@Damo How is it? there's no other Brumbies player there. In fact, there's no one else, just him..
Look again. There are two blues players, both of whom make contact with him prior to his attempt.
To go for ball you need to be the first player there, not arrive after the opposition.
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Lineout and scrum immediately improved with arrival of Nepo, Karl and Romero. Last named also gave Blues some good go forward.
Perofeta showed some excellent judgement, in particular with time up, declining to tackle when Ponies all over his outsides, and taking ball up well. Lovely delayed pass for BB try.
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I've not watched the match, I couldn't stay up as I have been beaten over every inch of my body by the covid stick, but so funny reading through this thread and the one in the roar. Virtually identical, just swap the accusations of cheating ref to the other team, and the other team's infringements being ignored. Then there a few scattered about saying the ref had not favoured any team, he's just incompetent - the voices of reason!
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Am only 20 mins in so far and two things:
- Goal line drop out for held up in goal is the shittest rule.
- How many paid staff are there in Super Rugby that we couldn't avoid the ref clashing with BOTH teams, one wearing blue and the other wearing orange. It's just not possible, but it is.
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@Machpants said in Brumbies v Blues:
I've not watched the match, I couldn't stay up as I have been beaten over every inch of my body by the covid stick, but so funny reading through this thread and the one in the roar. Virtually identical, just swap the accusations of cheating ref to the other team, and the other team's infringements being ignored. Then there a few scattered about saying the ref had not favoured any team, he's just incompetent - the voices of reason!
I thought that the refs body made appointments commensurate to the game?
This bloke is simply out of his depth and doesn’t have the speed of thought necessary for this level. If he’s still learning then he should get the “lesser “ games. It’s like a Wayne Barnes scenario at the moment.
You could hear his brain grinding at some breakdowns and he’d flag it away rather than call late. I didn’t see the whole game but it seemed to me that most of his calls were correct, it was the non calls that caused frustration and inconsistency.
