Blues v Chiefs
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Blues were bloody lucky.
Ref was poor - as is often the case - these refs just can't keep up with the intensity/pace.
Chiefs aren't a bad side - a bounce of the ball here or there and they have what - 3 wins at least in this comp?
Credit to the Blues goal line defence but cripes they shoot themselves in the foot again and again.
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@booboo said in Blues v Chiefs:
@Bones said in Blues v Chiefs:
Disappointing to see Robinson take himself out of contention for AB selection there.
? Huh?
Man bun.
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As someone who has watched Rugby for over 40 years, I have always said that Brendon Pickerall as an official is out of his depth , I have mentioned this many times on this forum ..but as a Blues supporter I make no apologies on winning a tight contest given what we have had to endure from officials over the last several years..
On today’s game , the Blues kept the Chiefs in the game with their own indiscipline..we will have to be much better against a Highlanders team on the improve .. -
@gt12 it doesn’t matter where Pickerall is from , he could be from the moon.., he would still be terrible , I commentated his debut match ,Northland v Southland a few seasons back...it was the longest rugby game I have ever called ..started at 7.35pm and did not finish until after 9.30pm..he went to the TMO to check on decisions or foul play on at least 8 occasions..I knew then, this guy is gonna be an issue ..compare his performance to Doleman last night ..night and day basically
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I used to give him a bit of leeway as h was thrown into high level stuff very early as what appeared as a “project” to show young guys they could choose reffing as a career.
Trouble is that he hasn’t lifted in competence at all yet they keep moving him up the chain.
His lack of knowledge when sitting in the TMO seat was highlighted then today a critical howler among a number of odd decisions and misses.
He knew he probably got that one wrong too. He wouldn’t look at Cane and was looking very uncomfortable. -
@KiwiMurph Yeah we really do. We should have won by plenty but continued to give the Chiefs multiple leg ups throughout the contest. If we sort that part of our game out (which we won't) the we'd be blowing sides away.
Chiefs fans, are you serious? You guys had a huge penalty count in your favour and had a ton of chances to put us away yet you're moaning about 1 call? Yeah it was a shit call but you had 79 minutes to take that game.
Cowley-Tuioti and Akira were our best forwards today with Rieko and Clarke being strong in the backs. I think Barrett should stay at 10 for the rest of the comp as well. We look sharper with him at first receiver. Ofa also got around well even though our scrum struggled with him and Hodgman in the first 40 but Tu'inukuafe and Mafileo changed things in the 2nd 40.
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@African-Monkey said in Blues v Chiefs:
@KiwiMurph Yeah we really do. We should have won by plenty but continued to give the Chiefs multiple leg ups throughout the contest. If we sort that part of our game out (which we won't) the we'd be blowing sides away.
Chiefs fans, are you serious? You guys had a huge penalty count in your favour and had a ton of chances to put us away yet you're moaning about 1 call? Yeah it was a shit call but you had 79 minutes to take that game.
Cowley-Tuioti and Akira were our best forwards today with Rieko and Clarke being strong in the backs. I think Barrett should stay at 10 for the rest of the comp as well. We look sharper with him at first receiver. Ofa also got around well even though our scrum struggled with him and Hodgman in the first 40 but Tu'inukuafe and Mafileo changed things in the 2nd 40.
No one is claiming that we shouldn’t have been able to put the game away. That penalty count was taken advantage of by overhauling a big deficit.
We also got some puzzling calls and non calls during the game.
All we are saying is that it is highly likely that we would have won if that terrible call wasn’t made.
I can’t crystal ball all the other calls but that one can be assessed -
@African-Monkey more than one call. My main issue is the warning coming in the first half then no card until the 78th minute when there were plenty of penalties in between. The last call was the icing on the shitty cake. Blues fans won't complain obviously. Don't get me wrong I think the chiefs were average but the ref is incompetent and the Blues were helped by his incompetence.