Highlanders v Waratahs

[Rapido]

@Bovidae said in Highlanders v Waratahs:

That was a poor TMO decision.

What is the point of TMOs.

Wasted several minutes of our lives for a plain wrong decision. Wasn't even a hard one.

I'd be perfectly ok with the ref missing that in real time, and we just got in with it.

[Stargazer]

In looking whether Buckman was offside, which part of Luke Whitelock's body should they have looked at? Whitelock's left arm was stretched forward, so arguably his hand was in front of Buckman's foot. In that case, the TMO's decison was correct. But if they can only look at Whitelock's feet, there's room for doubt. There was no good camera angle though.

[Tordah]

@Stargazer said in Highlanders v Waratahs:

In looking whether Buckman was offside, which part of Luke Whitelock's body should they have looked at? Whitelock's left arm was stretched forward, so arguably his hand was in front of Buckman's foot. In that case, the TMO's decison was correct. But if they can only look at Whitelock's feet, there's room for doubt. There was no good camera angle though.

ball is the offside line, isn't it?

[Bones]

Shut up Marshall you moron.

[KiwiMurph]

Good game of footy this.

[gt12]

Highlander's have been looking a bit out of ideas - bombs towards Folau are a pretty low percentage play, but they don't have much else other than passing it to B Smith and making meters

[Damo]

Shut up Marshall.

[KiwiMurph]

Tevita Li what the hell was that

[gt12]

Shut up gt12, they've got a scrum

Pretty poor take their from the landers - gives Tahs a good chance for points.

[Damo]

Strange call against Naholo. Correct but you never see that called.

[Tordah]

poor tackle by Ben Smith

[gt12]

@Damo said in Highlanders v Waratahs:

Strange call against Naholo. Correct but you never see that called.

Well, it's hurt them.

Bad drop by Smith and then drops off the tackle too.

[KiwiMurph]

They need to get Lima on. Banks is no threat to run, Tahs arent committing to the breakdown so need some inside running to be kept in check.

Tahs have played well.

[Gunner]

Ben Smith WTF, dropped ball under the sticks then a poor missed tackle.
Getting his annual quota of errors over and done with in 30 seconds there...

[gt12]

The funny thing about the Oz teams is that they have plenty of talent - especially the Tahs - and with a bit of ball they can do good things. When Foley and Folau are going well with front foot ball, they look a different team to their recent shitness.

The Landers have just been unable to take advantage of opportunities - they had plenty of ball, but dropped it both times they had the Tahs under pressure. They're lucky to be one point back IMO.

[Damo]

I've got a sinking feeling about this game now. Too many mistakes by the Clan and Tahs look good.

[gt12]

@KiwiMurph said in Highlanders v Waratahs:

They need to get Lima on. Banks is no threat to run, Tahs arent committing to the breakdown so need some inside running to be kept in check.

Tahs have played well.

Good points - especially about numbers at the breakdown. They've been playing wider and that might not be helping them.

[KiwiMurph]

Wouldnt be too harsh on Ben Smith there - that Taqele is generally pretty fucking useless but trying to stop him in that sort of position is very difficult.

[Bovidae]

@Rapido The term they use "not clear and obvious" is a cop-out if the footage shows the exact opposite.

Put it this way, if the LIons had been awarded that try against the ABs we'd be bitching and moaning.

An enjoyable game and O'Keefe has been good.

[Stockcar86]

C;mon boys. No Aussie teams to be NZ teams this year