There was a scrum penalty against the Brumbies that baffled me. Their own feed, win the hit, clean rake of the ball and the scrum went forward through the Chiefs, yet are penalised when Mowen keeps it at his feet.
The 'use it' call is proper at the breakdown, but was Joubert within his rights to insist on Mowen/White playing the ball in a dominant scrum? Winning the scrum penalty is bread and butter in the NH, why was it different last night?
Yeah Think I know the one your on about, to me that was a 50/50 call that the brumbies lost, chiefs did detach from the scrum, I also called the wheel, deliberately turning the scrum through 90, but the chiefs got away with it.
Off track a little but, in the first Lions test when Pollack reffed the game the scrum was a lottery, when Joubert took the reins wasn't a lot better Poit the French ref had a better understanding of it as in the French league scrums are a big part of the game so to the rest of the NH,
The difference between the officiating by a NH & SH refs is huge, scrums down South are a means of starting again up here they are a means of manipulating the opposition,
We still believe the set piece is important to the game, so to the maul, whereas your sides prefer a running passing game, which I think is very good to watch, but difficult to ref when to different hemispheres collide, interpretation is a big factor. If you can do the both I think you have a winning team.