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Oh man, the Kings 10 backed off. Asking for trouble.

I can honestly say, the Highlanders have been average this season but they do not deserve to have lost 6 games in a row. Sure they're making errors but so are all these teams playing against us. We've had parity (or the better) statistically almost every game. Every single game (except the...

Oh these fucking run away tries. How many times this year. 2 by the Chiefs, 2 by the Cheetahs, another 1 by the Chiefs. Reds playing their best game of the season and winning by 1 point. Honestly, sometimes you just need a bit of bloody luck. We've had absolutely fkn none this season, and...

Injuries, injuries. Run out of back replacements. Front rowers coming back on. Locks on the flank, flankers on the wing. AND WE FINALLY FINISH A TRY! FIRST TIME THIS SEASON. Took Jamie Joseph long enough to replace Aaron Smith, jesus.

Oh okay, spend 5 minutes just obliterating the opposition but wait, that means we might score a try! Quick, KNOCK IT ON! ffs, how many chances is Aaron Smith going to get. Bring on the international superstar Fumiaki Tanaka. That's just not a penalty, it's so bloody simple. He looked at it...

lol It was possibly the most blatant shoulder charge I've seen, I reckon Walsh just bottled it. Got it right eventually though. Cost us 12 points that yellow card. Oh BS call Walsh, since when did refs start calling that out of the ruck. And the Highlanders throw away another try 1 metre...

Ma'a Nonu is just an idiot. Serial offender, called for being lazily offside (by about a metre) then 5 minutes later yellow carded for a ridiculous shoulder charge. He's been doing those exact two things his entire career. Good to see Jamie Mackintosh back.

Such a shame Kahui's off to Japan next year. Looking the goods straight off injury. I'd throw him in at 12 if if the AB's got picked this week. I heard the old commentators mention last week's chiefs defensive effort as "dubious, straight out cheating". Guess the bleeding obvious came out in...

It wasn't one way, the Reds just got the OBVIOUS breaks. I'm not totally denigrating the referee here, we just haven't got the 'rub of the green', 'bounce of the ball'. I've watched 5 Highlanders games and while they haven't played well, we've come behind with the ref every game. To whoever said...

Of course, we always make mistakes and so did the Reds but they got help from the man in pink. It's not shocking decisions but just repeated wrong decisions. This game wasn't so bad, not as bad as last weeks farce. Qwerty knows my pain.

Oh I forgot, other teams are allowed to knock on against us. How many times have they knocked it on and thrown forward passes? Fuk's sake. Every single game this year the refs have been rubbing green all over our opposition. It's just getting bullshit. Reds played well enough. Good for them.

Quoted. I would almost, i repeat almost, argue that the Highlanders have played better rugby than the Reds have this year. Circumstances have been quite different though. I think it'll be a tight game. There's a reason the bookies are backing the Highlanders though I wouldn't be betting on...

I agree it's probably not the correct word to use, it's not far off though. I think their complete aversion to taking risk, doing something even slightly different is borderline. If only because they show they have the talent to be so much more effective by just trying it. It's probably not the...

You have to say, the Reds certainly take out this years luckiest side. Manage to play awful and still pick up these close wins. Nothing has changed for the Bulls. They do the same ineffective thing for 75 minutes and then they are forced to make changes, run the ball and they are completely...

Whenever the Bulls get the ball in their back line it's almost as though they don't know what to do with it. It looks completely foreign to them.

Well given the earlier precedent in the game it has to be a yellow. Just an unfortunate one. It seemed to me Slipper practically jumped in the air as well on contact. How else does a slim winger lift a front rower to that angle?

Bullshit Kafer. Why should a team get a territorial or tactical advantage from someone dropping the ball. Once they have the ball, that's all the advantage they deserve. Possession.

Genia and QC (Quade Cooper) finally sparking. It took Genia to run off Quade. Why don't the others do this?

All these endless box kicks from the Bulls are useless when it's not Fourie Du Preez making them. Haven't had a contestable one yet. Finally a contestable kick and they win it and a subsequent penalty.

Tough yellow card, a penalty should sufficed. He did lift him above horizontal and it took him putting his arm out to stop the fall. I don't know what the rules say but for me that's a penalty. Sometimes I think the Bulls are not rugby players but in fact machines running on old computer...