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Toro

Don't see the issue at all, it's just consulting. Anything to help teams understand the pictures the refs want to see and have less penalties in a game. Hardly gonna be something to cause bias when reffing another team, more than already being from that country I mean. Is it though? The announcemen...

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Real shame England didn't get the best 2nd place, we'll see after the finals how close teams get to SA but they could arguably be the second best team at the tournament. SA v Eng and NZ v France wouid have been amazing semis. Hope to see NZ v SA in the final, love the look of our wings and 9, some ...

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Real shame England didn't get the best 2nd place, we'll see after the finals how close teams get to SA but they could arguably be the second best team at the tournament. SA v Eng and NZ v France wouid have been amazing semis. Hope to see NZ v SA in the final, love the look of our wings and 9, some s...

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Don't see the issue at all, it's just consulting. Anything to help teams understand the pictures the refs want to see and have less penalties in a game. Hardly gonna be something to cause bias when reffing another team, more than already being from that country I mean.

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Anyone have any idea what the sweet juddering fcuk the officials were actually looking at when they decided there was no head contact here? https://i.ibb.co/p6NXgBj8/Screenshot-2025-07-06-at-12-21-21.png The message seems clear to me. The officials on this Lions tour are basically ignoring ruck inf...

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Gee that’s a shame, such a great try. I really wonder sometimes if that had stayed ‘missed’ would anyone have thought to go back and look at it? WR obsessed with cancelling tries. Might as well bring back the captain’s challenge. Three tries overturned in the game so far. Even though that worked in...

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Gee that’s a shame, such a great try. I really wonder sometimes if that had stayed ‘missed’ would anyone have thought to go back and look at it? WR obsessed with cancelling tries. Might as well bring back the captain’s challenge.

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Ali's Choice wrote: ↑Sun Jul 06, 2025 5:55 am The was a heck of a try from Fiji. Will be hard to beat for try of the year.

Unreal.

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Farva wrote: ↑Sun Jul 06, 2025 5:47 am That was fine every day of the week and twice on Sunday, momentum pushed the ball forward. TMO saw it forward because they slowed everything down to look at it.

Haha c’mon Farva take the eye patch off. Always forwards out of the hands, can’t believe they took so long to call it.

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I feel sorry for Reuben Love and Rhivez Reihana as eventually they are going to be given a go at 10 and if they don't produce a Daniel Carter 2nd test performance Vs the Lions this forum will go into meltdown calling for the return of Barret, Mackenzie or Mounga. Agree, we're missing a trick again....

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TMO's clearly told to get overly involved in all games.

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pelo wrote: ↑Sat Jul 05, 2025 5:08 pm SA doesn’t really need referee help. How may time the big fella was offside while Italy was box kicking?

Nothing material, 9 should've run at him, or kicked it at him..

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Bok loosehead getting away with one there, no help from her AR.

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I'm implying no bias, but the big decisions all went the Tahs' way today. The two biggest were. 1. Allowing the Tahs' wing to crawl to the tryline after he'd been tackled. 2. Allowing the Tahs' player to slap the ball out of Genge's hand on the tryline. That's a 12pt swing, which would have made th...

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Wasn’t a good call, didn’t agree with their process at all. The fact that he was a posible receiver (not in front of the ball) when it was passed should take that language out of the conversation. The defender decided to bite on him, there was no way he was a chance of ‘biting out’ ,as Berry said, a...

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Just don't run in front of the ball carrier and take the ref out if it then. Accuracy required In all fairness he was in a position to receive a pass which was completely ignored by the review. The defender bit on him so it's on him, not to mention his potential to 'bite out' as Berry put it wouldn...

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The NZ public in general are token rugby fans. They like seeing the all blacks win and muttering something about underarm, which is a bit bizarre, to be honest… The majority couldn’t name SR squad players let alone a single player in a full strength French 15. “Is that caveman bloke still playing??...

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2025 Māori All Blacks campaign: Saturday 28 June Māori All Blacks vs Japan XV, 6PM (JST), Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Tokyo, Japan Saturday 5 July Māori All Blacks vs Scotland, 3.35PM (NZST), Semenoff Stadium, Whangārei, New Zealand I'd forgotten they were playing Scotland too. That should be a f...

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What's the forecasted damage to France's ranking should they cop some heavy losses? RWC seeding isn't too far away right?

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Pretty happy with that team although think Jacobson is a conservative selection, he's not really a starter so I'd probably have gone Blackadder till he breaks again, or a ball player like Sotutu or Grace. Worrying how weak we are on the wings. Really interested to see what Tavatavanawai can do. He w...

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Floppykid wrote: ↑Fri Jun 20, 2025 9:38 pm An Argie with the surname Wegner.......

Someone needs to brush up on their history...

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It's weird after so many years of depth at wing we are struggling there a little bit. 9 was a worry but Roigard has settled that, back up still week. Lock was a massive worry and still nowhere near Whitelock and Brodie heights but some solid tall timber coming through. Hoping Holland kicks on, and g...

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Personally I think it's time to move on from BB. I'm not a hater, he's been a great servant for NZ rugby and I'll always be a fan. But he's not owning a black shirt position now except perhaps a bench place and it's time to give the next cab off the rank a crack. It's not like a couple of players h...

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Ha, well done Crusaders. If course Willie was a mile offside at the end, but that's fitting for a Doleman breakdown. :lol: He was onside but if that's not diving on an emerging ball within a metre of a ruck I don't know what is. Amazing D from the the Crusaders though, incredibly unimaginative from...

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merlin the happy pig wrote: ↑Fri Jun 13, 2025 9:51 am
Noob wrote: ↑Fri Jun 13, 2025 9:47 am if blue knoccks it on and Hoskins grabs it is he not offside?!?!?
Was odd

Enough doubt there as to whether Mcleod got a touch to it, so good call to play the scrum option.

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merlin the happy pig wrote: ↑Fri Jun 13, 2025 9:50 am The rules are the rules, but that's just bloody sad. Nothing Sotutu could do there

How bout not fly up at a speed that doesn't let you adjust your height or head position?

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There were still more than two players from each team bound together. Doesn't that make it a maul? He explained after that the carrier had broken away and it was a tackle. A ref will always call maul, if they don't you don't stay there. Even less excuse if they slap you on the leg and say move. The...

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Rubbish, he was making no effort to move even after Doleman tapped and said move. he decided on his own it was a maul. There were still more than two players from each team bound together. Doesn't that make it a maul? He explained after that the carrier had broken away and it was a tackle. A ref wi...

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Doleman can suck a fat one. Blatant obstruction missed, Papali'i pinned and the ball available but still pings him Rubbish, he was making no effort to move even after Doleman tapped and said move. he decided on his own it was a maul. There were still more than two players from each team bound toget...

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Monkey Magic wrote: ↑Fri Jun 13, 2025 8:50 am Doleman can suck a fat one.

Blatant obstruction missed, Papali'i pinned and the ball available but still pings him

Rubbish, he was making no effort to move even after Doleman tapped and said move. he decided on his own it was a maul.

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Well that's a bit unfortunate. Not a fan of that sort of card. He didn’t bend at the waste. It’s dangerous and 100% avoidable - just poor technique. 100% deserved. Note, I'm not claiming it wasn't a card under the rules. I'm just saying I'm not a fan of cards for what are often just errors in a fas...

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So you would be quite happy if the TMO had come in and penalised the Brumbies player on the ground playing at Reece and yellow carded him? Haha not something they're willing to address and Turinui doubled down on TV too. It's just fingers in ears and "Na na na na na he missed a knock-on on purpose....

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How does that stack up against the stats Mr B posted on the previous page? Finau has played mostly off the bench so it makes sense be hasn't hit as many rucks as players who start. It would seem that he is technically very effective at rucks. Vs France there are a number of givens that logic sugges...

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Which foot do you think he saw the ball bounce off? Because that’s what he said, right? Left or right? I don't know and don't remember what he said now. Let me remind you. He clearly said, “off the foot”. He was 2 metres away and had a clear view and someone claimed that the ball hit his foot. To e...

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Still nothing huh? ...

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Still nothing on the Brumbies cynical action haha, straya gonna straya..

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https://i.imgflip.com/9vr7fo.gif Knock on dickhead. He knocked it on the pointy end then it fell back. I don't agree with you and neither did an international team of refs, but you must be right to be so sure as to come in with insults. If you could read properly the real point of the gif was to sh...

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I'm not worried about Rieko's pace, he'll still put tries away when given the chance and covers a lot of ground on D, works hard. The worry is his distribution. A big pass came his way tonight with someone rushing him but big overlap outside. He didn't even try to get it into that space, and we saw ...

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We've seen Jordie on the wing before.. it should never be repeated.... He was bloody good at wing. Not how I remember it. He's pretty solid wherever you put him. Never seen his supposedly lack of pace shown up but he won't gas anyone on the outside. Better defensive winger than most as he reads the...

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https://i.imgflip.com/9vr7fo.gif So there is it, the ball staying in front of him does not make the ball necessarily travel towards the opposition's try line. That ball never travelled anywhere but backwards after he touches it, which is what the TMO confirmed. That said, live you'd call that a kno...

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