Tea & sympathy mate.
Looked like someone had word in ref ''s ear ?
Reece was penalized not for being off-sside - but for obstructing a Springbok player from competing for the ball. That was a routine penalty whenever it happened in any test.
Be it as it amy the crossing of the refs arms in awarding the penalty indicated obstruction and watch it again.
More rubbish, Mike...Here is the gesture the ref makes...at no point does he cross his arms.
Instead, the ref holds his left arm up indicating a penalty, and then draws a line with his right hand, indicating that Reece was beyond that line and thus offside.
The commentator himself says "The call came from the assistant referee, Reece it was, that was offside."
Looks to me like this what the ref is doing...
"When a rugby union referee signals offside, they swing their arm in an arc along the offside line while keeping their shoulders parallel to the touch line and their arm hanging straight down."
Comments, Mike?
I'll try ................ he normally takes my sage advice.
He won’t answer. In another string I posted Rasmus’ comments about lineout calling and Nortje in particular, where he confirms that Nortje was in effect the lineout captain. Clever is adamant that no such role exists and won’t respond to that either.
When he is found out he ignores the evidence. But don’t be surprised if he repeats his assertion a few days later. Deliberate dishonesty, stupidity or dementia…,who knows what causes this kind of behavior .
In school the hooker calls the lineouts, but in Pro rugby it appears the number 5 usually calls the lineouts as the middle jumper.
From the coach’s mouth:
‘ It was just overthrown by the hooker and sometimes they didn’t even go up so that’s a timing issue,” the Bok boss explained.
“We have to understand that a guy like Ruan Nortje is early in his career and it was only his second game against New Zealand.
“Last week, we had Pieter-Steph help him call the lineout but this week it was solely on him, so he will have learnt a lot and the All Blacks did their homework and contested well.”
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For the Boks the number 5 lock is the lineout captain.