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The Brumbies outside backs seem to have an outstanding knowledge of the laws. Too bad the scrum half and flankers are ruining it for them.

What if G&GR runs a "Smuth of the match award", sponsored by Smuths Chups.

http://www.rugbystats.com.au/matches/rugby/match23576.html

I'm not usually interested in South African domestic rugby. But the sheer insanity, that is this relegation playoff scenario is interesting enough on it's own. I don't know if this is common knowledge. But the 2012 Golden Lions players who were still on contract are actually on loan to the...

I would actually welcome the news if Jonathan White was given a semi final. I think he's a good ref for big games. But objectively looking at this scenario. You have 1 final in SA and 1 final in NZ. Presumably the top 4 refs at this stage are Joubert, Walsh, Peyper and Jackson. Jackson and...

Would be a bit ridiculous to fly Chris Pollock or Jonathan White over to SA to ref the semi, I doubt Jake White would prefer that option either.

It kind of looked like the wind took that kick a bit at the end. Anyway, the way I think the Brumbies will look at this is that they've had 1 extra game than the Bulls to practice their knock-out game strategy. It really is a different playing style and Jake White definitely has it nailed down.

I hate people like that, why doesn't he go to a Raiders game instead? Or some 7s?

The Bulls stomping ground.

What about when Shipperly dropped it cold in the 2nd half? Nothing the match officials did comes even close to that error. The fact is, such a high standard is demanded of the match officials that when they do make a small error, it gets blown out of proportion because it falls outside the...

Don't think anyone would have beaten the saders tonight. The only thing going against them is that they will be away for the next 2 weeks unless the Cheetahs win. Good season for the Reds, been a pleasure to watch once again in 2013.

Unlike many in this thread I'm only up to my 3rd beer while watching this game. It appears when I get to #13, and watch the decision again, I will see the light!

There's an offside player for the Reds there. But if it has no effect I wouldn't expect it to be called. "Borderline", in the sense "did it impact on the game". And from the video it's about as inconclusive as the grounding so 5m attacking scrum seems fair enough.

Shame the expert TMOs on this forum missed the Reds borderline obstruction. But moving on.....

I reckon the weather is getting to the Reds. You can tell their Wallabies are carrying the odd injury, and the defence seems to be lagging a bit. Home ground advtange looks like it most certainly has had an impact. The bookies read this one well. Crusaders are obviously killing it, but the...

The difference of course being that the Suncorp crowd evenly distributes their drunken rage between all 22 travelling team players, so each opponent only cops 1/22nd of the booing at most. And it becomes even less when you factor in the refs, whom receive 48% of the flogging. Hence each away...

Saia is a legend, I hope they show that on replay!

I don't think it's "Boo", they're saying "Coo-per".

6 degrees? Wtf? Hopefully it doesn't effect the Reds.

Cheetahs by 20