For Beeno's eyes only.

The Lions home game versus the Canes.

Here is the link to the video. I have only gotten through the first half as time has been a tad tight this week. And even then i haven't actually been very thorough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5luebzZPRY

There is one specific moment that i would like to point out. Remember the flying kick theory i had? Please go to (15:32) on the video and tell me what you see. The guy is literally trying to kick Skosan. It's bloody disgraceful and very telling. One has to be biased beyond logic to watch that clip and still say that this is a normal way to jump...or to land. Is this cheating? No, of course it isn't Wardad. What does this tell us about the intent of some kiwi teams and players? Why do we never see Oz or SA teams doing this sort of thing? Is it a co-incidence that i pointed out Ben Smith was doing this and everyone said i was mad? I provided the example video of where he flying kicked the Welsh guy out of the air at the WC, injuring him...and surprise surprise here we see another Kiwi doing the same?

Here are the infringements i found in the first half.

Note, the times given are video times and not match time. So use video time as your reference.

13:42 - Off-side. Leads to try.
15:32 - The totally legal attempt to kick an opposing player. Because this is normal.
16:14 - Driving line-out jumper before he has landed. Knock-on results.
17:02 - Pulling line-out jumper out of the air.
20:56 - Off-side
21:28 - Off-side
21:49 - Intentional slow retreat AND 3 players off-side.
22:53 - Fails to release ball
24:47 - Pulling line-out jumper down
25:00 - Intentional change of direction to block kick chaser's run
25:28 - Intentional shoulder to the face almost knocks Mostert out. No arms used.
26:28 - Mnisi who is not part of the ruck is taken out.
27:47 - Lions are off-side and are penalised.
29.32 - Cane's players hangs on to Tecklenburg behind ruck.
30:49 - Here is an entire sequence of match spoiling play form the Canes.  ---------Intentional maul spoiling firstly, penalty awarded.
---------Ball is taken quickly, Canes not 10. New penalty.
---------Canes off-side near goal line.
---------Next ruck, three players off-side.
---------Canes 7 tries yet again to collapse maul but Lions score.

35:52 - Entire Canes back-line off-side. Notice how quickly they are up on the Lions line.
36:02 - Dane Coles not rolling. Penalised. He meant to roll obviously.
36:55 - Two forwards join maul from the side. Not penalised because by a twist of fate ---------they have done it at the opposite end of the maul where the ref is standing. No    ---------penalty given. Canes score soon after.
38:56 - Canes player holds Whitely back behind the ruck.
40:00 - Canes not releasing. Penalty awarded.
40:54 - Two Canes players directly offside and interfering with play due to very slow ---------retreat and blocking the pass to Jantjies. Faf is forced to pass to someone else.
41:01 - Every Canes player who is on his feet is off-side. Is the off-side pressure that ---------results in the poor kick?
45:31 - Canes player continues on past ruck and pulls lions player 3m past ruck, then ---------holds on to him. This Canes player was not part of the ruck at any point in time ---------and is thus MILES off-side.
45:39 - Numerous Canes players diving over the ruck, taking out players who are not ---------involved in the ruck and also falling on the ball.
46:04 - Barrett about 0.5m off-side next to ruck. Has to retreat and go back around the ---------ruck to assist in defense...funny, how he has to run backwards. If he was on side ---------he could simply go forward in the direction of the attacking player.
46:12 - Off-side.
46:20 - Changing lanes to block kick chaser.

And that's half time.

These are the infringements i found from the Canes in the 1st half of this game. Obviously i am no guru on the rules and i was not looking at the Lions. I was being as strict as possible on the Canes.

I found roughly 30 infringements, many of them cynical and game spoiling. Some are debatable. Though there are many which are completely contrary to the spirit of the game.

I will follow this looking at the Lions in the first half and being just as strict on them.

I welcome advice on my knowledge of the off-side law. Really, i could be wrong about a lot of this...obviously. How many off-sides do you count?

How about that flying kick hey Wardad?

I actually phone SuperSport and guess what, one can't by DVDs of S18 games due to copyright infringement when international teams are involved.

How bloody ridiculous. Like, you are literally forced to record it from the tv or pirate it.

JW, please do tell me where i can download the final from as you said you had downloaded it. 

 Plum...
Google search rugby films 2016. There's a site where you can watch super rugby aswell as international and can download some of the games.
Hope this helps.

You forgot, how cruel, dear old Beeno has only one eye

 Good point Seb. Plus beeno only has one brain cell loosely attached to the eye so things like facts are usually not necessary & rarely result in logical conclusions. Alas poor Plums efforts are wasted. In fairness to Beeno his single brain cell does contain a sense of humor so he's great fun.

 Plum thanks for yopu excellent analysis of the first half. your comment "I found roughly 30 infringements, many of them cynical and game spoiling. Some are debatable. Though there are many which are completely contrary to the spirit of the game".  SAYS IT ALL REALLY.
I have suggested that the fault with bent kiwis is genetical given their unsavoury origins!!!
THe only solution really is to ban kiwi and even OZ refs. Being the kind generous soul I ma I say don't ban kiwi players yet!ou JW is so doff he doesnt realise Plum's finding are in line with Beeno's take on matters. Seb is trying to please so he chooses to do so at teh expense of honesty and of the Lions. 

ALL THIS LEAVES BAD PONG AROUND!!!!! BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
CONCLUSION: BEENO AND PLUM HAVE NAILED THIS ONE. JW AND SEB ARE ON THE DARK SIDE

We tease you Beeno because we like you...don't have a a one-eyed vision on that...some of our members are more bent than some refer ees in Poland or NZ or even in the WP but life goes on...Craig is a good ref and learning from extreme oddities in rugby...rugby rules is far more difficult than your job of simply adding up figures and studying boring balance sheets and income statements...he is a very trustworthy man, an old boy from my school in Pietermaritzburg who does not have any intentions of living in Kiwi land or forbid it not in Kangarooland.

 you've never seen a rugby match before or are you a bit backward?

nothing of what you see as an infrigment, really is,....... nothing

13:42. There's no offside at all. If you consider that an offside should have been called because of nº3's and nº7's situation, forget about it, they don't intervene in the play. That's not an offside, never has been.

15:32 - As you said, it's legal,..... and it's not an attemp of kicking an opposing player, he jumps leg first.

16:14 - Lions' player loses the ball all himself, nobody drives him

17:02 - Pulling line-out jumper out of the air? WTF are you talking about? there's nothing wrong in that lineout,....

20:56 -what off-side? there's no offside at all

and it's enough with it,....
we can do the same with the Lions,..... according to your cfriteria in the first 5 minutes of the game:

00:26. Off-side,  and its very clearly seen becuse it happens just over the 22 line, Lions' nº7 is technically offside, he's before the foot of the Lions player involved in the ruck and marking the offside. What happens is that these kind of circustantial infringements are never called,..... but according to your criteria, an infringement

00:44. offside, Lions' nº 4. same as the other.

02:15. Liomns' scrum pops up and turns. Penalty.

03:37. Lions scrum pops up again. Penalty and this should have been called, contrary to the previous infringement.

this makes 4 infringements in the first 5 minutes,...... that would make some 30 in the first 40 minutes also

"nothing of what you see as an infrigment, really is,....... nothing"

Really?

At least i can spell "infringement".

Backward you say. Mmm!

 Congrats Plum you have obviously routed the kiwis. Poor ab ass made a very feeble defence about as bad as his global warming efforts! Hahahahahahahaha

Seb I take very little here too seriously. Due of course to severe limitations re rugby acumen and political savvy as well as a universe creating itself from nothing etc etc. Bwahahahahahahaha hilarious stuff!

 Beeno has found a friend in Plum & his fantasy world is impenetrable.
Beeno's fantasy world - Putting the unused trophy cabinet to good useBut where's wee Noddy?