Hurricanes - Stormers Game

 Mike, the commentators changed their minds on Jones' first effort and agreed he picked the ball up from an off-side position.....or did you have your TV on mute at that time?Try to give a balanced view in future.

 Well said Mike must never accept these bent down under refs cheating like this.
That first one re Conrads knock on alone cost us the match and in fact may have been a 14 point swing. 
Atrocious stuff but dont expect rooi ass and ab ass to agree.

 A balanced view regarding NZ rugby from SA posters on a SA rugby site....more likely to meet Jesus on a stroll around K'RD.

 Moola a player in a ruck picking up a ball in front of his feet is NEVER off-side.  Jones was part of the ruck coming from behind - not from the side - so he could not be off-side.  
Polyboy - when other members complain about refereeing - I normally support the referee and not the complainants, but here the position was so poor that even I had to say that the refereeing was atrocious.   If the referees - three of them in fact - did not see Conrad Smith's knock-on I mentioned then one can only assume they did not want to see it. 
The same also applies to the other four examples mentioned by me.  It either was deliberate or simply poor refereeing, but the constant mistakes the Stormers had to put up with - make me think it was a deliberate effort to favour the home crowd and team.
However, in all fairness lets wait for the comment of Kaplan on the refereeing - he is always fair - for instance he did not take the part of Francois Steyn when that controversy was raging.   

 ...not so clever mike how come you never had Allande as yr centre...after telling us how much better he is than SBW you chose SBW....same with Cruden why have you not picked Lambie???..but it's ok i understand completely..we both know you can't go wrong with the Mighty Chiefs...

 Brycy
I had the choice between Kerevi and De Allende as center - the latter was on my bench.  As it was I made a mistake in that case.  De Allende played the fool with Williams in the Chiefs game - same as he did with Nonu this morning.   Sorry I did not put him in - but he will definitely be in next week.
Brycy - I am soon going to trade Savea for Skudder-Milner  

 @Mike.

"Moola a player in a ruck picking up a ball in front of his feet is NEVER off-side......."

Could you please quote that law as it stand in the law book?

 The mongrel is wanting A QUOTE of a law about something that is common sense.  Is there a law about a no 8 disengaging from a scrum and picking up the ball behind the scrum - something which happens  twenty times a day in matches.   This was a similar occurrence -  Jones was part of the maul, he disengaged picked up the ball and dived over for a try.   Why have a law for something which is normal and part of the game - Dofdoos?   

 Mike that was what Justin Marshall says. Justin can be trusted to have got it right and this is what so unfairly annoys the kbbs about him.

 
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April 03, 2015, 22:12:16  The mongrel is wanting A QUOTE of a law about something that is common sense.  Is there a law about a no 8 disengaging from a scrum and picking up the ball behind the scrum - something which happens  twenty times a day in matches.   This was a similar occurrence -  Jones was part of the maul, he disengaged picked up the ball and dived over for a try.   Why have a law for something which is normal and part of the game - Dofdoos?   

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You don't know law covers that part of play then, do you? Everything in rugby can be relayed back to a specific law. Just name the law that rules the actions that you have described. It can not ne that difficult, can it?

 Dofdoos 
Balls there are no laws governing standard procedures - such  as catching a ball cleanly when passed to you, etc.  There are laws about passing balls going forward or knocking on a ball - I can go mopn endlessly on that point.  Why do you need a law for somebody who picks up a ball cleanly behind a scrum or a maul.  Go and find that in the lawbook dofdoos.
I am sick and tired of your sh!t arguments about nothing - so piss off or you find a law prohibiting an on side player from disengaging from a scrum or maul and picking up a ball.    

 Polyboy JC isnt on Kroad at Easter ,hes hangin' around the cross with a couple of disreputable types......

Well, there you have it. Ou Maaikie posts a remark about being offside or not at a ruck situation and he expects us to believe that there is no law addressing that. Nice try old super snooper. Nice try. Better luck next time.  

 There was a lot of dodgy calls by the ref, the first was Conrad Smit, like Mike says, cases 1. Not only was it a knock on, the player was also off side and cynical and should have gotten a straight yellow.
That said, the Hurricans played some fantastic rugby.
Hats off to De Allende, really got better as the game got on. 
Word must go to Nonu as well for his great touches to get the canes to break out of their 22 and then being crucial in getting the ball in the right place.
So many player mess up at that point when they make clean breaks like that.
Burger is looking great. I would shift him to 8 and move vermeulen to 7. Burger is playing a classic link role which you want from your 8.

 The blowhards were severely caned in the second half. It was a complete travesty that the blowhards won this due to the bent officiating. Zero congrats are due. It was disgusting.

 Hats off to the Mighty Canes as they proved that a top NZ team can win a game even when sipping margaritas and smoking cigars for the entire second half.
"One of the celebrants has a whistle" mumbled the fair-minded kiwi