Chiefs v Sunwolves
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The Chiefs know that the NZ games are all that really matter. Beat the Crusaders and Hurricanes and the lost bonus to Sunwolves is irrelevant.
Lose to them and the Bonus points just decide where you travel to.
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As someone who was at the game, I said to my mates that the Chiefs would lose the first lineout thrown by Mitchell, and they did. Of course the Chiefs then lost 3 lineouts in a row.
It was a very poor performance from the Chiefs but I agree with @booboo about the penalty try. I was listening via SportsEars and the ref said "the Sunwolves player's deliberate knock down prevented a line break but no PT". Donald was over the tryline without a defender near him so if that wasn't preventing a probable try I don't know what was?
It was the same in the Canes-NSW game with Barrett's second YC. Instead of looking wide for the number of defenders they should have looked in the first channel.
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@Bovidae said in Chiefs v Sunwolves:
As someone who was at the game, I said to my mates that the Chiefs would lose the first lineout thrown by Mitchell, and they did. Of course the Chiefs then lost 3 lineouts in a row.
It was a very poor performance from the Chiefs but I agree with @booboo about the penalty try. I was listening via SportsEars and the ref said "the Sunwolves player's deliberate knock down prevented a line break but no PT". Donald was over the tryline without a defender near him so if that wasn't preventing a probable try I don't know what was?
It was the same in the Canes-NSW game with Barrett's second YC. Instead of looking wide for the number of defenders they should have looked in the first channel.
That comment by the ref was picked up on the TV coverage. If the line was broken and there was noone behind then it's reasonably "probable" that Beaver makes the try line.
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That was a dead cert penalty try. The only questions would be if Beaver didn't catch the pass or fumbled the grounding. Any thought that he would have been tackled short is ridiculous.
The offending player gets removed from the situation. You can't imagine that he didn't offend but did something else instead.