RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks
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@Billy-Webb said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@nzzp said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@antipodean said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@nostrildamus said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@antipodean said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@nostrildamus said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
There has been a discipline and or cards issue for some time.
I'd say there's a clear subconscious bias. IMO a capable TMO wouldn't have said the threshold was made for a bloke that has someone turn into him, and not for someone that runs 10 metres into the face of someone else.
I also take umbrage at the discretionary use of "absorbing".
you meant to answer my post?
A I think there is a discipline/card or at least playing to the ref problem with this side for awhile but on the other hand
B I'm not very happy with the TMO or the amount of consistency in the cards/penalties of the RWC final (i.e. I think I agree with you)Yeah, although I agree we've not been squeaky clean and hence gambling with the vagaries of the adjudicators, but I seriously feel we've not been getting the rub of the green since the Lions Test.
I feel the same way.
This is my reality. My lived experience. Who is anyone to tell me I am wrong?
Welcome to the feeling Bok supporters have had for many years
I think that in the past, the AB's have tended to be able to take the ref decisions out of the game because they were just a notch or two so much better and a call against the AB's here or there didn't really matter.
For their opposition, a few 50:50 calls against them seemed like the kiss of death.Now that there is, at least for now, less of a gap, the AB fans are feeling those 50:50 calls much more acutely. They do feel like they make the difference on the day.
That is my theory anyway....
It's bloody hard to take the ref out of the game if you are a losing player in the first 2 minutes of the game and then spending half of the game one man down.
The ABs and Saffa team are very rarely teams that will win when the other has a one man advantage for 40 minutes. Much like the woman's RWC final, Ireland v England's 6N game and a number of games involving Wales winning, an opposition player receiving a red card completely alters the competitiveness of one side.
I'm not sure if there are any current studies on the effectiveness of the current rules but the pre-2019 studies seemed to suggest that rugby's approach was significantly less effective than rugby leagues approach on a HIA/concussions per 1000 minutes of game but that may need more data - we seem to have a set of rules that ruin games and don't provide any significant improvement in player safety Concussion rates in elite rugby hit highest levels since records begant
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@Stag said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@rustycruiser I don’t say it much, but that was 14 v 16, and we still should have won. Barnes wasn’t biased, he was just bad, and I backed him as the ref when he was appointed.
Barnes is an absolute C###.
He robbed us in 2007 and just did it again.
Him and the TMO's robbed us.
Cannot stand SA and the way they play.
We made mistakes but we deserved that game and were robbed.
The game was totally fucked by the officials.
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Scotty Stephenson on TVNZ breakfast: ‘Barnes is a great coach, but World Rugby has hung him out to dry with a ridiculous TMO system that turned the game into a crime scene.’
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If that game were played without a TMO, Blacks win easily. If TMO used to ensure correct decisions (e.g. Savea penalty), Blacks win game.
But in the mess which is the current top level officiating we get an anomalous result.
How many do there have to be before this gets sorted?
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If your game plan is relying on match officials to get everything correct you’re in trouble.
IMO the biggest errors were kicking to the corner when we should have kicked for sticks…then kicking for the sticks from far out when we should have kicked to the corner. And waiting too long to bring on DMac.
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@Billy-Tell said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
If your game plan is relying on match officials to get everything correct you’re in trouble.
IMO the biggest errors were kicking to the corner when we should have kicked for sticks…then kicking for the sticks from far out when we should have kicked to the corner. And waiting too long to bring on DMac.
They were pretty big eff ups for sure. Bringing on DMac so late was pretty inexplicable. Makes the loss hurt even more..
But fark me Kolisi being allowed to come back on while Cane gets red was seriously on the nose. I don't think we've heard the last of that.
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I think you’ve nailed it pretty much. You always expect NZ to play the most intelligent rugby, but the Saffers played smarter on the day imo. Odd, because you clearly have some intelligent players. What’s the issue? Leadership? Coaching?
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@Machpants said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@Kiwiwomble said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
really just posting...because i feel i should post after the big game
Gutted sums it up
There are things i would like to complain about but the reality we just didn't play as well as we needed to win, we didn't play like we did against ireland and it showed
I also just think SA wanted it more, i know their fans did, at a pub in melbourne and their fans were RABID, kiwis stood quietly at most mumbling the national anthem but the Bokke supporters were calling it out, chanting during the game etc....and i think the team played like it too...just flying up on defence when we held back and waited for them to come to us
i feel we get cards by carelessness or brain explosions, cane gets caught off guard with a player turning into him...card, scooter last week = brain fart...the Bokke get done because theyre pushing the limits, if they catch someone in a high tackle its because theyre flown out to make a dominant tackle
now thats a bad result....but i think it shows they just really want to win...and we just want to play a bit of footy
What a load of horseshit. If our guys weren't desperate to win they would have given up when their captain was sent off. Just because Saffas puff their chests out more in pubs doesn't mean our players wanted it any less.
They certainly weren't blue headed tho, SA know exactly what they want and don't get over excited like a lot of our backs seemed to
I don't know about this - the Jaapies were farking terrible in that second half. They should have gone for the jugular and ground us into the dirt, but they barely held on.
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@Bones said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
Sums it up for me.
That C### missed way 2 much especially on the SA side.
If Canes was a red so was the head but on Ardie.
The officials were a disgrace. Ruined the game IMHO.
We did have a chances and missed them but showed a lot of heart.
SA just got lucky with the officials as far as I am concerned.
Yes sour as fuck !!
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@Catogrande said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
I think you’ve nailed it pretty much. You always expect NX to play the most intelligent rugby, but the Saffers played smarter on the day imo. Odd, because you clearly have some intelligent players. What’s the issue? Leadership? Coaching?
We went away from the basic things that went well vs Ireland, such as kick your points, be direct with ball in hand
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@junior said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@Machpants said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@Kiwiwomble said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
really just posting...because i feel i should post after the big game
Gutted sums it up
There are things i would like to complain about but the reality we just didn't play as well as we needed to win, we didn't play like we did against ireland and it showed
I also just think SA wanted it more, i know their fans did, at a pub in melbourne and their fans were RABID, kiwis stood quietly at most mumbling the national anthem but the Bokke supporters were calling it out, chanting during the game etc....and i think the team played like it too...just flying up on defence when we held back and waited for them to come to us
i feel we get cards by carelessness or brain explosions, cane gets caught off guard with a player turning into him...card, scooter last week = brain fart...the Bokke get done because theyre pushing the limits, if they catch someone in a high tackle its because theyre flown out to make a dominant tackle
now thats a bad result....but i think it shows they just really want to win...and we just want to play a bit of footy
What a load of horseshit. If our guys weren't desperate to win they would have given up when their captain was sent off. Just because Saffas puff their chests out more in pubs doesn't mean our players wanted it any less.
They certainly weren't blue headed tho, SA know exactly what they want and don't get over excited like a lot of our backs seemed to
I don't know about this - the Jaapies were farking terrible in that second half. They should have gone for the jugular and ground us into the dirt, but they barely held on.
They were flustered, and we couldn't put them away
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@Billy-Tell said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
If your game plan is relying on match officials to get everything correct you’re in trouble.
Agreed. But it's not unreasonable to expect the match officials to be reasonably even in their errors.
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@antipodean said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@canefan said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@antipodean said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
How the fuck people are blaming players for losing by a point after playing the majority of the game a man down beggars belief. The slightest bit of competence from the officials and we won that.
Both things can be true in this case mate. Sometimes the ref doesn't see it your way. But self inflicted wounds are coach killers
Nah, that denies our players the kudos for being in the game right up until the final minute. That was a heroic effort and we were utterly fucked by disgraceful refereeing.
Well said that man.
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@pakman said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
If that game were played without a TMO, Blacks win easily. If TMO used to ensure correct decisions (e.g. Savea penalty), Blacks win game.
But in the mess which is the current top level officiating we get an anomalous result.
How many do there have to be before this gets sorted?
This is another Schrödinger's cat scenario
If Smith's try had stood do you honestly think that SA couldn't have gotten points back / changed their game plan to more attacking rugby if they had to 'chase' the game?
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@canefan said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@Catogrande said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
I think you’ve nailed it pretty much. You always expect NX to play the most intelligent rugby, but the Saffers played smarter on the day imo. Odd, because you clearly have some intelligent players. What’s the issue? Leadership? Coaching?
We went away from the basic things that went well vs Ireland, such as kick your points, be direct with ball in hand
This 1 million %
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@Nepia said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
So had a Sunday session with some mates (half Kiwis half not giving a shit about rugby Aussies and foreigners) and was a good way to wind down.
Except, I made the silly mistake of watching the game again once I got home. Now I'm just angry. I've gone from it was a good game, we didn't get the rub of the green, but probably didn't impact the game too much ... to ... if I see an Englishman in the street I want to punch the fucker, that all English ref team fucked us even in the last seconds of the game.
Hopefully when I sober up again tomorrow I'll be chill again.
Totally Correct.
Fucking hate Barnes.
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@No-Quarter said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
That was the WC final, the absolute pinnacle of our sport, with the two form teams of the comp going hammer and tong playing completely different styles. It was all set up for an absolute classic.
And what did we get? Constant stoppages for the TMO to pour over footage of a super dynamic sport, not looking for genuine foul play, but for minor indiscretions and errors of judgement by players absolutely throwing themselves around for 80 minutes.
And the result was a stop start game that included so many cards, including a red that basically sealed the fate of the game for one side, that it is impossible to tell what would have even happened if both sides were allowed to keep 15 men on the pitch.
That was a potentially incredible game of rugby between two supremely talented sides that was never allowed to get going. If that's the pinnacle, then rugby is badly broken as a sport.
The good news was the TMO stoppages allowed me to pop to the loos. Taking spectator consideration to an entirely new level.
