QF - North Harbour v Auckland

[African Monkey]

@Bones Yeah, actually, I do take what I said back, nothing more than just a natural reaction in that situation but yes, an illegal play. Fair call.

[taniwharugby]

@Bones was that stupid action players use thier foot to get under the ball...he's lucky it wasn't worse

[Bones]

@African-Monkey said in QF - North Harbour v Auckland:

@Bones Yeah, actually, I do take what I said back, nothing more than just a natural reaction in that situation but yes, an illegal play. Fair call.

Yeah but this is the issue we're facing. If you can't stop a guy scoring a try, it's not ok to resort to a (dangerous) illegal action to try and stop him, just because you can get away with it being a "natural reaction". He's lucky it's not red.

We're so quick to forgive players but throw the officials under the bus if they get the wrong card.

[Bones]

@taniwharugby said in QF - North Harbour v Auckland:

@Bones was that stupid action players use thier foot to get under the ball...he's lucky it wasn't worse

Yeah, plus by him doing that it then put him in place to knock Angus tfo.

[KiwiMurph]

Hodgman getting pinged off of the field tonight

[taniwharugby]

Shouldn't NH get a pen on half way?

[Chris]

@KiwiMurph said in QF - North Harbour v Auckland:

Hodgman getting pinged off of the field tonight

3rd penalty

[KiwiMurph]

I think you can stick a fork in Auckland.

[Tim]

@KiwiMurph very harsh penalty. Collapsing the maul?

[Bones]

@Tim said in QF - North Harbour v Auckland:

@KiwiMurph very harsh penalty. Collapsing the maul?

Yeah he was quick to deem that a maul eh!

[Tim]

Auckland with a massive gap on the wing. Even a man down, that is their weird defensive pattern in action.

[KiwiMurph]

@Tim said in QF - North Harbour v Auckland:

@KiwiMurph very harsh penalty. Collapsing the maul?

Pugh clearly collapsed.

[Bones]

What a year Stephenson is having.

[Tim]

@Bones super quick, and would normally just be a scrum to harbour for a collapsed maul?

[Chris]

@Tim said in QF - North Harbour v Auckland:

Auckland with a massive gap on the wing. Even a man down, that is their weird defensive pattern in action.

Yeah RTS was defending in the centres inside Trainor weird set up.

[taniwharugby]

@Tim a number of teams defend narrow like that, Northland included, does my head in as I can't see what the point is, especially in situations like that.

[Tim]

@KiwiMurph Collapsed maul is almost unknown from a tackle situation. Teams do it deliberately and get a scrum.

[Bones]

@Tim said in QF - North Harbour v Auckland:

@Bones super quick, and would normally just be a scrum to harbour for a collapsed maul?

I'm all for refs penalising guys on both sides for collapsing the maul. But consistency is key. You can bet there'll be a maul where the team in control collapses it but he won't penalise them.

[Bovidae]

It's not very often one player takes out two players in one move.

Hodgman is having a shocker with his discipline.

[taniwharugby]

@Bones was one earlier