Blogger says -Game in the balance.
Impossible for the on-field ref to see everything. TMO would have seen this on the replay. Absolutely crazy that the TMO isn’t allowed or supposed to tell the on-field ref to correct the call.
FACT IS the crusaders cheated big time. They should be stripped of their win. Such a cynical side with cynical supporters like crusader twit who brushes all this under the carpet! Doubtless JW will rock up in his Noddy Car blowing his horn and protesting how unfair it is to criticise the Crusaders for cheating.
Cape Town - Former Springbok coach Nick Mallett says Australian referee Nic Berry missed (hahahahahahahaha) a vital infringement late in the Super Rugby semi-final between the Crusaders and Hurricanes in Christchurch over the weekend.
The incident occurred when Crusaders captain and lock Sam Whitelock knocked ball out of Hurricanes scrumhalf TJ Perenara's hands (This oak is as bad as mcheat McCaw)
The 'Canes, trailing 30-26, were hot on the attack for the winning score when the Australian referee deemed that Perenara had knocked the ball on.
The All Black scrumhalf was furious and television cameras afterwards depicted how Whitelock had dislodged the ball from his grasp.
Speaking in the SuperSport studio afterwards, Mallett noted: "There is a Hurricanes player (Whitelock) over the ruck so a ruck is formed. As TJ Perenara's picks up the ball, one of Sam Whitelock's hands goes in there and just knocks the ball out of Perenara's hands as he's about to pick it up.
"It's an instantaneous, and very clever, thing to do. I also thought that sort of action is down to brilliant coaching (YOU MEAN VERY CROOKED COACHING A TOTAL AND UTTER DISGRACE). It's just being street-smart in a vital period of the game because the momentum was 100% with the Hurricanes in those last four minutes. You had that feeling that they were going to get over the line.
"What Whitelock did was up to the referee to spot because the TMO (television match official) can only come in for an act of foul play and that doesn't justify itself as foul play. So it was just something that was missed by the referee and I imagine that the Crusaders are delighted that he did."(OF COURSE THEY WERE NOT AN HONEST OLD CRUST FAN PREPARED TO ADMIT THEY ARE CROOKS.
