The Kriel non yellow minute 61.18

I figure if Erasmus can pick through the bones of a game, why not point out one ref mistake. It’s minute 61.18…Wales have the ball inside the Bok 10 metre line3 Bok defenders are bunched. Williams is outside with a clear run to the goal line. He points to the passer for a long over the top pass.

Kriel who is 10 metres inside him and faced inwards is the last defender. Kriel’s running backwards and reaches up one hand with no chance at all of catching the ball and knocks it down.

For some inexplicable reason the ref gives a ‘just a knock on’. But it wasn’t , not even close. Kriel had zero chance of catching the ball. 

A clear yellow and a penalty, which would likely have given Wales the game.

Story of the season. The Plastiks have been suckered with this "they arez all against us" narrative. Quite manipulative of Josè, as it takes pressure off of him and reinterprets every test, even the losses. The Boks have never had so much swing their way in a season! Lots of knock ons by Mapimpi as well (looking shaky under the high ball). The Boks have been very fortunate as they've had either many yellow cards not given or reds given as yellow. 

I’m amazed this incident hasn’t blown up….to me it wasn’t even close relative to the calls we saw for deliberate knockdowns against the ABs.

Meanwhile the SA Rugby Mag totally misses this and blames the ref for incorrectly calling offsides on the Mapimpi try. They circle all the players who pulled back, but miss Marx who took several strides forward in an offside position, before responding to Am’s efforts to get them to pull back. You don’t have to stay offside, just be offside.

Wrong again by the biased South African press….Erasmus has created an environment of one eyed whiners.

Oh I see, so it's not the refs who are stupid and incompetent cheats, it's the suits at World Rugby? 

So keep the refs and change the people who pay their salary? Hmmmm . . . not sure how this will solve anything but at least it's got you off bashing the refs for a few minutes.

Dave, watch any game of rugby or football and you'll see people arguing over 50/50 TMO calls just as much as if the technology wasn't there. 

The TMO should resolve the majority of decisions but there will always be close calls requiring a certain amount of interpretation that cannot be resolved no matter how many times you view the video or hold up the game.

If you want a recent example, just go take a look at the VAR footage of the Tottenham vs Everton game yesterday where Hugo Lloris brought Richarlison down. They played that video countless times and the panel after the game still couldn't agree on whether it was a penalty or not. T he same thing applies with a lot of rugby calls, especially forward passes, players supporting their own weight, scrum penalties and many others. The TMO calls are still open to interpretation that not everyone will agree with, but personally I'd rather have VAR/TMO than not have it. 

"Evidenced by the Oz 13 against Scotland yesterday where his one handed attempt to intercept worked"

Agreed Dave... this is something I have previously said is a stupid rule... 

It wasn’t an attempt to intercept….his other hand never even attempted to engage the ball. He just stuck  up a hand. Say this is okay and knocking down any pass is okay and rugby as we know it changes.

The Mapimpi non try was technically correctly called. Marx advanced into the 10 metre area around the ball ahead of the kicker…..before being called back by Am. Marginal….in the complex world of rugby rules it could probably have been given a pass. But technically correct.

But if we want to play micro ….did Mapimpi have any realistic chance of catching the ball. No. Did he make contact upsetting the Welsh players chance to catch the ball? Yes. Did he then pull back on Adam’s jersey hindering his chance to get back to the ball. Yes. Was that different to the Daly pull back in the Lions series. Maybe but to what degree?

Is this where we want rugby to go? A series of boring reruns of minute detail. This is where Erasmus has sent us.

Unter is all about his hero Josè. Nobody makes a mistake except Mostert, everything is prefect and nobody can do any wrong. He thinks he is level headed and rational. 

So you want a rugby test to be a 3 hour marathon where there is still disagreement ….like the Mapimpi “try’”…after all that time. And if you are Rassie you only review the calls that you can claim went against the Boks. Got it!