Stormers v Blues
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The play that led to Duffie's second yellow was pretty reckless. Stormers player still on the ground and you dive in off your feet is a penalty. You dive in knees first into the ribs like that and that is dangerous play.
But the Blues still had their chances. They looked good in bursts, they're just lacking that consistency which often allows their opppsition to get back into the game or keep it close.
The Stormers have to be one of the worst attacking teams in Super rugby. They were pretty good defensively, but their attack has so little variation. It wasn't surprising to see passes being shelled by fatties because it was like shock that they were even receiving them.
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@KiwiMurph He's a shocker. He should be thrown out of the game.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Stormers vs. Blues:
The play that led to Duffie's second yellow was pretty reckless. Stormers player still on the ground and you dive in off your feet is a penalty. You dive in knees first into the ribs like that and that is dangerous play.
But the Blues still had their chances. They looked good in bursts, they're just lacking that consistency which often allows their opppsition to get back into the game or keep it close.
The Stormers have to be one of the worst attacking teams in Super rugby. They were pretty good defensively, but their attack has so little variation. It wasn't surprising to see passes being shelled by fatties because it was like shock that they were even receiving them.
I just watched a vid of that now, tit looked like the Stormers player was getting up, saw Duffie coming and dropped down again - Duffie probably should led 'arms' first but I assume he was heading at fill tit across the field to try and make the covering tackle.
I wish that league and rugby would get a balance right, league have reverted to not giving a shit about anything and rugby have gone all Bones on us ;).
Here's the vid:
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@Nepia
That was like a referee horror show with a climax at the end!That try was given huh? You can blatantly propel yourself along the ground like that then?
(insert that emoji with the twirling finger meaning dumb or crazy - the same one I can't fucken find in that smiley list thing)
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The try where De allende crawled close to.the line and next player played it off his feet and basically was part of the ruck too, was baffling.
As for the Duffies second yellow, I reckon there should be some responsibility on the ball carrier, his own actions made the situation dangerous there. If he does stand up like he, Duffie hits him around the hip area, fair tackle.
But the thing is, you just need to play good enough to take these kinda calls out of the equation, that's what the better teams do.
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@Bones said in Stormers vs. Blues:
Blues lose, blues fans whinge and blame ref. Quelle surprise!
Funny the people whinging about Treeby not being carded are remarkably quiet on Ofa not seeing a card...
Was this deleted due to the use of non-English? It's easily translated, but very sorry...
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@Bones Lol as if it's just Blues fans whinging about the refs. Every supporter on here whinges about the reffing in games.
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@African-Monkey to the extent of blues fans, every week and every loss? Methinks not. Remarkable difference between blues threads and other NZ teams when the blues lose. Check the Crusaders-Chiefs thread...
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@Bones I think people just enjoy posting about the Blues tbh
especially as we are the worst in the conference. I haven't noticed it as much as I feel there are a lot of unbiased Blues fans on here and yes I did have a go at the video ref as he has always been rubbish throughout his career but as I have said earlier in this thread, we should not get ourselves in the position to let the refs decide the contest in the first place as you are going to cop a few roughies in SA being the touring side.The blame for this loss falls squarely on Umaga and the captaincy team for not drumming the importance of discipline over there into the players heads, not the refs perfomance. Plus I feel we gassed badly and our subs made very minimal impact.
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@African-Monkey yeah those unbiased blues fans 😁
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@KiwiMurph said in Stormers vs. Blues:
@Bones I dont recall any bitching of the ref in our last loss vs the Canes? A lot of talk about how awesome Beauden was (rightly so)
Yep correct. We may come last in the conference every year, but our fans are very gracious in defeat and even more humble in victory.
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@African-Monkey said in Stormers vs. Blues:
@KiwiMurph said in Stormers vs. Blues:
@Bones I dont recall any bitching of the ref in our last loss vs the Canes? A lot of talk about how awesome Beauden was (rightly so)
Yep correct. We may come last in the conference every year, but our fans are very gracious in defeat and even more humble in victory.
Ha ha ha. Fucking good one man.
Either you're 12 or you weren't into rugby when Auckland were good
