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Pitfitter446 wrote:Did I miss the MoM call?
Tichtheid wrote:liveinhope wrote:Am I over the top to suggest that was one of the great performances in Scottish rugby history? Probably but must be up there...
Some titanic performances-Muncaster,Watson,Boffelli,Kinghorn in particular.
And being greedy I felt with a bit more calmness forwards would have released the ball to the backs at that final maul to give them a chance at a bonus point try.
Amazing how all the nonsense of the 6N can be blown away after watching that.
I haven't seen the game yet, only the tries, but I said elsewhere that I thought this was one of the major league wins for Edinburgh in the pro era. That was a good Sharks side with eight SpringBoks at least, including the inspirational Siya Kolisi, one of the major stars of the international game.
A terrific result for Edinburgh, and much-needed, too.
TheSmidge wrote:Just seen the tackle-in-the-air incident, though not the TMO debate.
For the life of me I cannot understand how that was mitigated down to a yellow. I thought we had done away with the nonsense about the tackled player using an arm to break a fall and THEN landing on the head/neck/shoulder area didn’t count as directly landing. Absolutely reckless play and should have been a deserved red.
EDIT: now heard the TMO discussion and it’s mitigated because he lands on the tackler first. Who, by the way, drops him, making no attempt to safely bring him to ground. That is an absolute nonsense and I would hope the URC disciplinary committee would step in. However, the baffling mitigation to Bismarck du Plessis’ suspension and the games it applied to handed out last week suggests that they are not on good form right now.
Pitfitter446 wrote:TheSmidge wrote:Just seen the tackle-in-the-air incident, though not the TMO debate.
For the life of me I cannot understand how that was mitigated down to a yellow. I thought we had done away with the nonsense about the tackled player using an arm to break a fall and THEN landing on the head/neck/shoulder area didn’t count as directly landing. Absolutely reckless play and should have been a deserved red.
EDIT: now heard the TMO discussion and it’s mitigated because he lands on the tackler first. Who, by the way, drops him, making no attempt to safely bring him to ground. That is an absolute nonsense and I would hope the URC disciplinary committee would step in. However, the baffling mitigation to Bismarck du Plessis’ suspension and the games it applied to handed out last week suggests that they are not on good form right now.
This is what I telling the telly-ref/TMO couldn’t hear me-no attempt to catch the ball, take the player out and leave him to sort out his landing.
Also agree with TH, we should have finished it off with a bonus point, Ah Well.
Can they pull something out the hat next week at altitude?
dolf_lundgren wrote:Im not 100% sure how all of the qualifications work, but my understanding is playoffs of the top 8, top 4 being at home 1v8 etc. But also if we top our mini group we qualify automatically for the ERC, or if we have to be one of the top 4 teams who haven't qualified from that route, which at the moment we are.
Basically I think ERC qualification is target 1, anything less is failure and to do that just staying ahead of Glasgow is our best bet. Will be interesting to see how they go in SA, assuming they win vs Zebre, we will be supporting the Stormers and Bulls, who will be tricky games for them.
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