Unbelievable scenes in Japan!!!!
Quote from: fatneck on September 28, 2019, 10:15:02 amUnbelievable scenes in Japan!!!!it’ll be mega if they qualify!
Wales good at HT too!
May 24, 2016, 05:48:26 pm - Egg chasing rubbish
All went quite here?Injustice was served? Actually thought SA dominated the game start to finish and deserved the win. I think England gave everything against AB, nothing left for the final.
having a French ref didn’t help...
Quote from: Coops_13 on November 06, 2019, 04:11:28 pmhaving a French ref didn’t help...Really? I don't recall any decisions that didn't seem sound.
(Footballs better anyway... 😄)
Quote from: SA Chris on November 07, 2019, 08:39:48 amQuote from: Coops_13 on November 06, 2019, 04:11:28 pmhaving a French ref didn’t help...Really? I don't recall any decisions that didn't seem sound.I think maybe ‘having that particular ref’ would be more appropriate... I don’t think he was biased - but he certainly seemed to have a different view of what to let ride (or not) with the scrums - and was not at all trigger happy with the TMO replays (were there any?). Maybe that reflects the type of game - but there did seem to be quite large differences in the rule interpretation between refs. Of course we’ll done to SA for reading that/playing by his rules... And England choked. Esp in the first 15 min... lots of errors (so it seemed to me).
Garces is always pretty quick on holding on/not rolling away (I thought he gave one of these the wrong way on the day). A bigger factor was that he is also minded to award more penalties to the dominant side on the scrum.Referees in rugby have a certain amount of leeway as to how they interpret some rules. Sometimes these will favour one side. The differences between refs is smaller than it used to be though. Northern hemisphere and Southern hemisphere refs used to appear to referee entirely different sports.The teams are all aware of how each ref interprets things so his performance won't have been a surprise to either side.