Bulls v Highlanders
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Watching the recording.
Hell that red was harsh!!
Was hardly a penalty. Well under previous interpretations. A yellow is a stretch.
Yeah the new high contact interpretation may have come into play but I struggle with being sent off for an inadvertent collision.
He had every right to expect to make a tackle. In fact if the Bulls player had held the ball he would have cleaned him up.
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some highlights including both RCs...how shit was the pitch!
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HIGHLIGHTS - See the best plays and pivotal moments from the Highlanders last-gasp victory over the Bulls #BULvHIG #SuperRugby.
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@taniwharugby pitch was great! Real rugby
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Thanks @taniwharugby for the link, good to see the highlights. Plenty of slomo replays of Naholo - for me, I can see why it's a red under the new law interpretations, but it was a red for being clumsy more than anything. Both players reacted to the ball in the air, and it was unfortunate that the shoulder hit the chin.
As for the Bulls player going full noise into a Landers player in the ruck - that was a red all day. Shades of Bakkies Botha a few years ago, but didn't leave the ref much choice.
Not much chatter about Fekitoa's insane run to score the winning try? A 50 m effort, sensational stuff.
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@nzzp everyone loves to hate on Fekitoa...if he can sort his offence, the dudes workrate on d is top notch
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WTF. So I just watched that now - how is that a red? African Monkey was doing his nut about it last night (but I'd missed it on my feed and couldn't be arsed getting up to go watch on TV) so I thought it would be an easy clear red. It looked like a brace for impact after he missed the ball but looked worse due to the slow mo. It only looked worse because the point of contact with the Bulls player was the chin. If he wasn't reaching for the ball it would have been a shoulder on shoulder.
Things are getting stupid.
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@taniwharugby said in Bulls v Highlanders:
@nzzp everyone loves to hate on Fekitoa...if he can sort his offence, the dudes workrate on d is top notch
Fekitoa hasn't been playing well more than he's hated I think.
It's funny, when he first burst on the scene it was for his attack and his defence was iffy, now it's reveresed.
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@Nepia said in Bulls v Highlanders:
WTF. So I just watched that now - how is that a red? African Monkey was doing his nut about it last night (but I'd missed it on my feed and couldn't be arsed getting up to go watch on TV) so I thought it would be an easy clear red. It looked like a brace for impact after he missed the ball but looked worse due to the slow mo. It only looked worse because the point of contact with the Bulls player was the chin. If he wasn't reaching for the ball it would have been a shoulder on shoulder.
Things are getting stupid.
You are clearly a biased New Zealander
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@Nepia said in Bulls v Highlanders:
WTF. So I just watched that now - how is that a red? African Monkey was doing his nut about it last night (but I'd missed it on my feed and couldn't be arsed getting up to go watch on TV) so I thought it would be an easy clear red. It looked like a brace for impact after he missed the ball but looked worse due to the slow mo. It only looked worse because the point of contact with the Bulls player was the chin. If he wasn't reaching for the ball it would have been a shoulder on shoulder.
The contact was probably similar to the last video - A Hurricane on Foley in Super Rugby. World Rugby has redefined the threshold - shoulder to head, even if accidental --> red UNLESS mitigation is there.
Basicaly, they are trying to stop exactly that sort of contact. RIghtly or wrongly - but bad news for Naholo
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@Nepia A shoulder to the head is a straight red. It was reckless from Naholo accidental or not and he got what he deserved.
If it was a Bulls player who did it you guys would all be calling for it to be red as well.
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I think that Naholo was straight red, no question. I don't care what he thought he was doing, at the last moment he decided to turn his shoulder in. If the Bulls guy had caught it, what was Naholo going to do other than a high tackle, coming in like that?
You can hardly say the ref was biased when he then not only red carded Bulls player, but stopped the likely winning try to do so.
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@Chester-Draws see him turning his shoulder is more out of self preservation and bracing for impact rather than anything malice.
As I said above, harsh to get a RC, but unfortunately RC was the only outcome from shoulder to head.
Was it the Welsh tour last year he got carded, similar clumsiness (man in the air)
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@African-Monkey said in Bulls v Highlanders:
@Nepia A shoulder to the head is a straight red. It was reckless from Naholo accidental or not and he got what he deserved.
If it was a Bulls player who did it you guys would all be calling for it to be red as well.
I'd really like to think I wouldn't
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@booboo said in Bulls v Highlanders:
@African-Monkey said in Bulls v Highlanders:
@Nepia A shoulder to the head is a straight red. It was reckless from Naholo accidental or not and he got what he deserved.
If it was a Bulls player who did it you guys would all be calling for it to be red as well.
I'd really like to think I wouldn't
Yep, me either, as I said earlier I think it's getting stupid.
@African-Monkey I'm not even a Naholo fan, I don't like the way he plays and think he should be playing for Fiji.
@nzzp I think that TR explains the mitigation - clearly Naholo wasn't setting out to to shoulder the Bulls player, he's got his hands out for the ball. If anyone wants to claim that he was setting out to do that they're lying to themselves. Now, if WR, that fountain of wisdom want to deem that accidental clashes meet the threshold of a red card then that's up to them, I'm going to call them idiots for that.
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The problem with lowering the threshold was shown later in the game. A Bulls player shouldered a Highlanders player in the head. The Highlanders player was just lying there on the ground. So the sanction for Naholo and the Bulls player was the same, even though one incident was a lot worse.
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@Stargazer said in Bulls v Highlanders:
@hydro11 The suspension might be different though.
That's true. I do think some of the suspensions handed out are way too short. I'm incredibly frustrated by players meeting the red card threshold and then receiving a two week suspension.
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@Nepia said in Bulls v Highlanders:
Now, if WR, that fountain of wisdom want to deem that accidental clashes meet the threshold of a red card then that's up to them, I'm going to call them idiots for that.I think that is what they're saying. We may not like it but like the maul laws, them's the farking laws.
Be bloody careful is the answer. What was normal rugby incidents is now card material. THe effects have been talked about up north, and we've seen it with some 'interesting' kick-chase calls. Hope it doesn't affect the upcoming Lions series, but quite concerned that it will.
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Just saw the incident. Looked to me like Naholo was going for the ball, saw the man in front of him and dropped his shoulder to protect himself from the impact. Split second reaction but a reckless one, so I have no issue with the red card.
Second incident was way worse though.
