Blues v Highlanders

[Crucial]

Usually they demote a ref to TMO. Where are they going to demote Paul Williams to ?

[African Monkey]

@machpants pfffft lol we've had years and years of it and are only just starting to show signs of turning the corner haha.

[Bones]

@tim said in Blues v Highlanders:

@bones Never brought him to ground. Fell off the tackle. Keep clutching ...

Hahaha say what? He clearly hit the deck mate, you can't pretend that didn't happen. It was a textbook tackle around the ankles.

[African Monkey]

@kiwimurph I know! And they're moaning about having a year about it lol.

[Bovidae]

@crucial said in Blues v Highlanders:

Usually they demote a ref to TMO. Where are they going to demote Paul Williams to ?

Taranaki.

[ploughboy]

@bones have seen others penalized for same thing this year

[Bones]

@bovidae said in Blues v Highlanders:

Williams has been consistent as a TMO this weekend, consistently wrong.

Imagine he ruled the crusaders with the same set of eyes....

Pretty fucken bizarre for him to come out today with a forward pass call on one that shouldn't be, after a gazillion looks. Is he ill? Is that why he's in the box? And why is he tmo at separate ends of the country anyway?

[Bones]

@ploughboy said in Blues v Highlanders:

@bones have seen others penalized for same thing this year

I haven't seen it this year, but it was their "thing" last year (which they dropped after a few rounds when they got bored, as usual).

[Tim]

That's it. Tolai has been good today.

[taniwharugby]

maul destroyed them there

[ploughboy]

@bones chiefs copped one against highlanders

[Bones]

@ploughboy said in Blues v Highlanders:

@bones chiefs copped one against highlanders

I must have been too busy faffing over Nareki

[Nepia]

No clear separation by the Highlanders player there.

[taniwharugby]

@nepia was very fast one on 2nd viewing

[Steven Harris]

@tim Darry has got better the longer the game has gone

[Machpants]

Aaron Smith guilty of playing the ref rather than the ball

[Tim]

Ruru's scrappy defence has been good today.

[taniwharugby]

poor ruck work by Highlanders

[Nepia]

Who's the openside now?

[Tim]

@nepia Sotutu?