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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