Champs Cup - Round 3

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Excellent result for Tigers

I'm also baffled how it can be a PT and YC when your own player falls over his own feet and no opposition player has gone in the side or pulled it down ... or how you can flop over the ball to stop a turnover yards from your own line and not get pinged ...

Stormers now playing the ball on the floor and not getting pinged ... jeez

Heaf wrote:I'm also baffled how it can be a PT and YC when your own player falls over his own feet and no opposition player has gone in the side or pulled it down ... or how you can flop over the ball to stop a turnover yards from your own line and not get pinged ...

The defender came in from the side straight on the ball carrier. Not surprised it was a pen try.

No 7&1/2 wrote:

Heaf wrote:I'm also baffled how it can be a PT and YC when your own player falls over his own feet and no opposition player has gone in the side or pulled it down ... or how you can flop over the ball to stop a turnover yards from your own line and not get pinged ...

The defender came in from the side straight on the ball carrier. Not surprised it was a pen try.

Not in the replay I saw - need to relook at it.

Now Irish denied a try - first the ball was stripped when the ball carrier's knee was on the ground, then the ball was touched down by Irish when Stormers took the ball back over the line ... incompetent buffoons

Well Irish have a lot to sort out themselves but the officiating during that match was a shambles from start to finish ...

Heaf wrote:

No 7&1/2 wrote:

Heaf wrote:I'm also baffled how it can be a PT and YC when your own player falls over his own feet and no opposition player has gone in the side or pulled it down ... or how you can flop over the ball to stop a turnover yards from your own line and not get pinged ...

The defender came in from the side straight on the ball carrier. Not surprised it was a pen try.

Not in the replay I saw - need to relook at it.

Irish 6 comes around and binds on the Stormers 6 who is the frontmost player, the ball carrier (hooker I think) falls over all of his own accord short of the line ....

Nope. Not for me.

Well that's what the view from the posts shows?

Never gets behind the so in from the side. But I guess that's why you will always have inconsistency as even with replays you'll see different things. Meanwhile it's almost basketball in the racing match.

At the point he re-engages with the ruck his feet and his body are between the Stomers 6' feet and body and the line, so I'm not sure how that's in the side, so we'll have to agree to disagree - plus the ball carrier is already falling over at that point due to pressure of his own players from behind ...

Anyway moving on from the PT - what did you think about the officials failing to award the try when Stormers got caught napping with the ball over the line?

Not seen it as was finalising my fish pie. Heard Warburton I think moaning about it.

Meanwhile TMO overturns a try for Quins when the ref says on-field try - meaning she has to be sure it wasn't grounded, which I don't think she could be from what we saw on screen ...

Then Racing score with a potential forward pass not looked at ...

Russell clearly knocked that on deliberately - but Brace says it's completely different to the pen against Quins .... there we go with the lack of consistency again.

Harlequins all at sea in defence.

Caught napping straight away at the start of the 2nd half

Fantastic defence again.

Awful restarts

Nearly cost Quins a nearly identical try to the last one

Well he's looked a little rusty at times but that is class from Smith.

Great try

Morris completing a dreadful game.

Not great

Meanwhile Racing get away with tackling a player 3m on the wrong side of the ruck, then to add insult to injury Quins then get pinged - where do they find these officials?

Morris has really turned this game single handedly.

Then great defence from Harelquins. If they can somehow make it through this period they'll be delighted.

It's about time they stopped the French from directing the footage - Dombrant looked like he took a shot to the head that was never replayed ... meanwhile he gets a YC after being taken out. TMO asleep at the wheel ...

Smith again.

Wow. What a last 5 mins.

That was the very definition of hands on the floor, how didn't Brace see it?

How is going back 20 yards an advantage?

These officials are appalling

That is a deliberate knock on in the 22! Is this guy bloody blind?

Potentially a pen try.

They were marching over there, not even considering the penalty try?

Complete turnaround. Surely now you'd think Harlequins have to win but their lineout keeps going awry

At least the TMO woke up for that one

That has got to be another yellow card!

That is a pen try now.

How is that not a PT?

It's got to be a penalty try too, he was under the sticks without it!

Messed up restart again. They've been absolutely awful.

Has to be YC and PT

Heaf wrote:Has to be YC and PT

Have you paused the game at some point by any chance.

How did you guess

That is absolutely ridiculous.

Harlequins will be kicking themselves after this. Lineout and restarts gone awol.

Quins 100% robbed by appalling officials