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gowrie wrote:Seeing both teams play this weekend, two things stood out:
Dobie is phenomenally good, and it really makes me more frustrated about how little faith has been shown in Shiel, maybe he'd mess up but at least give him the chance to show it especially when he shows glimpses of real magic in attack.
Winning and McQuillin came on and dominated the scrums, is this an indication that Super 6 has significantly stepped up the scrummaging level? Also the U20s have beasted their opposition there, very good news for us if true.
Tichtheid wrote:I’m watching it again now and I have to say I’m bilin, we have a totally dominant scrum which is getting penalised right left and centre and Connacht have just scored their second try, but the guy dropped the ball before landing on top it.
Water under the bridge? Aye it is, but there are points difference consequences, not to mention the clown car standard of refereeing in this league
Matt Scott’s try should have stood and the Connacht ten should not have been binned. I’m not there yet but the deliberate trip on Charlie Shiel was more of a penalty try than that.
Tichtheid wrote:Further to the scrum penalty try, McCallum, Fenton and Winning were rightfully ecstatic, Fenton is the oldest of that trio and he’s only 24, McCallum 23 and my guess is that Winning is at least a year younger than that.
Tichtheid wrote:
With the above in mind, you remove the Connacht player who tripped Shiel, look at the pace he was travelling at and what other defenders were around him. In my opinion Shiel would have scored, the closest defenders were a hooker and a flanker who had been on from the start and a winger who was chasing on the diagonal so had further to run, there is nothing in the laws about how far out the player is, it’s all about the likelihood of scoring.
Tichtheid wrote:The seatbelt tackle is a penalty offence, during the review the tmo and ref have to decide if a try would have been scored if you take the offender out of the equation entirely, if so it is a penalty try and a yellow card, so in that respect they were correct, but I maintain Scott’s try was good anyway.
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TheSmidge wrote:Tichtheid wrote:The seatbelt tackle is a penalty offence, during the review the tmo and ref have to decide if a try would have been scored if you take the offender out of the equation entirely, if so it is a penalty try and a yellow card, so in that respect they were correct, but I maintain Scott’s try was good anyway.
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Similar situation at Twickenham on Saturday for Henshaw’s try. He crossed the line with an English player hanging round his neck, but not even referred because the try was good. No prizes for guessing which English player was the offending party, especially when it is pointed out that it was the same player as should’ve been sin binned minutes earlier for hanging onto Stander...
The Feral Goat wrote:Tichtheid wrote:Further to the scrum penalty try, McCallum, Fenton and Winning were rightfully ecstatic, Fenton is the oldest of that trio and he’s only 24, McCallum 23 and my guess is that Winning is at least a year younger than that.
Not just the front row, at the time we also had Hodgson (21) and Carmichael (24) in second row and Crosbie (22) in back row (Barclay and Haining take the average up a little)
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