The long march is another step forward!!!!
'God invented beer to prevent Props from taking over the world'
I wish to take the entire credit for that win!
I got home and started watching when they were down 20-22. As soon as I started watching they stormed home!
You may thank me
sounds like a cracker,.... Will watch it when I get home...... 2 in a row.... Fantastic
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Great win by the boys! I'm now on my 5th pint at JB's
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I love the Force. What a game.
Bring it Blues!!
A kick in this game is like a rather nasty alcoholic shooter, only as good as it's chaser...
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that last Hlanders score was touch in goal just because the tv screen couldnt show where it touched and the other angles were obscured they award the try?? just get a pen & paper stick it against the screen draw the rest of the ball and the rest of the line and wallah, ball in touch!!
YOU BEAUTY!
Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
thank goodness for this win, should keep the missus quite till they meet again!
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The attacking team is supposed to get the benefit of doubt, and since the fat end of the ball was on the grass, with the edge on the chalk it's fair to asume that a 10000fps camera would've shown it touch a blade of green grass before the side line.Originally Posted by zimeric
I think Whittakers no-try was bullshit though, the rule states control isn't required, just downward pressure.
It was clearly a pinky-try.
Shouldn't even get to that Zim, rewind back to Whits' disallowed try and answer the question, who had better control of the ball when placing it?
Vainikolo dropped it by the standards that TMO was applying.
That being said, I would have given both, the ball never left contact with the hand, and I've seen many worse given.
C'mon the
Jonkar awarded Whit's try and then after he had blown the whistle decided to go to the TMO! how can that be right!
Jonker has always been a tool, and has never ref'd well in games we have played. I don't think he likes Aussie sides....
bloody touch judges...
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Touchie made him look again.
Then the TMO decided to give the score to Vainikolo, and in the Saders game Fotuali'i also scored one that was similarly dodgy It appears that only Australian hookers drop the ball in NZ
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And Jonker had a good game for him......I wouldn't have been surpriesd if he'd sent Pekka off and let Newland continue his thuggery!
C'mon the
I thought the call on Whittakers try was tough. I can only assume that the TMO thought that he had lost contact with the ball and, whilst out of contact, someone else touched the ball. He is allowed to lose it and regather untouched without penalty, just as one can juggle a pass, and as I saw it the ball was still in his arms when it contacted the ground. Downward pressure is irrelevant.
22.1 GROUNDING THE BALL
There are two ways a player can ground the ball:
(a) Player touches the ground with the ball. A player grounds the ball by holding the ball and touching the ground with it, in in-goal. ‘Holding’ means holding in the hand or hands, or in the arm or arms. No downward pressure is required.
I had no problem with the Highlanders try. The ball may have touched the line in-goal, but I don't think it was first grounded there. So long as it touched the grass in-goal first, what happened afterwards is irrelevant.
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