Brumbies vs Highlanders, Sat 14 April 2018 - Dunedin

[waiopehu oldboy]

Wow. Just wow.

 

[Slim 293]

The last 5-10 minutes have been brutal......... if only Hawera had not thrown his third intercept pass.

 

[zer0]

Old Ben from Accounts still has some pace.

 

[Slim 293]

The Brumbies are running out of backrowers........

 

[Tomikin]

We seem to want to toss cutout passes to much and or really wide balls to the wingers and end in cut out passes or turn overs

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[Up the Guts]

Brumbies are playing with 14?

 

[Slim 293]

That should be a YC for the head roll..........

 

[Tomikin]

Brumbies are playing with 14?

Yep because Isi was off for head injury check cusack was on for it but then when he fail he has to go off

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[Up the Guts]

That should be a YC for the head roll....

This guy isn’t the greatest ref. Had a poor one last week for Reds vs Brumbies as well

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^^^^^^ I think your potential returnee failed a HIA therefore can't come back on. Sucks but thems the rules & for good reason. The world doesn't need any more brain-damaged footy players.

 

[Latts1992]

Yep because Isi was off for head injury check cusack was on for it but then when he fail he has to go off

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That's a really dumb technicality.

 

[Latts1992]

^^^^^^ I think your potential returnee failed a HIA therefore can't come back on. Sucks but thems the rules & for good reason. The world doesn't need any more brain-damaged footy players.

No, Cusack was fine but he was a tactical replacement. We had no replacements left so had to play with 14 following Isi failing the HIA.

 

[Up the Guts]

^^^^^^ I think your potential returnee failed a HIA therefore can't come back on. Sucks but thems the rules & for good reason. The world doesn't need any more brain-damaged footy players.

Did Cusak fail an HIA? My understanding was that Naisarani went off for an HIA and Cusak was able to keep come on despite being subbed earlier but because Naisarani failed the HIA, Cusak had to leave the field.

 

[Tomikin]

Did Cusak fail an HIA? My understanding was that Naisarani went off for an HIA and Cusak was able to keep come on despite being subbed earlier but because Naisarani failed the HIA, Cusak had to leave the field.

That's it shit rule

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[Up the Guts]

That's it shit rule

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Surely could have let it slide, Kiwi comms going “rule’s a rule” was bloody annoying because they would have been blowing up had it been the other way around.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

No, Cusack was fine but he was a tactical replacement. We had no replacements left so had to play with 14 following Isi failing the HIA.

In that case it's just bad luck, I guess.

EDIT: Up the Guts no, you should never let rules/ laws "slide". It's what separates us from the knuckle draggers.

 

[Tomikin]

The Brumbies problem is that they keep giving the ball to the backs, when all of their best attacking players are wearing single digit numbers....

I'm tempted to just play 2 pack and a number 9..

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[zer0]

That daft HIA replacement law needs to be changed as soon as possible. And, as far as I understand it, it's also plainly open to abuse if your scum is in trouble.

> Scrum is getting crushed
> Sub off both starting props
> Wait five minutes
> HIA a replacement prop
> Replacement prop fails ("fails")
> ???
> Profit through uncontested scrums and bring on an as yet unused loosie as replacement to maintain a full XV

 

[KOB1987]

Brumbies had used all their subs. If someone had broken their leg the same rule would have applied but without the need for an assessment. It’s been that way forever.

 

[Up the Guts]

In that case it's just bad luck, I guess.

EDIT: Up the Guts no, you should never let rules/ laws "slide". It's what separates us from the knuckle draggers.

I was thinking that myself but there are some occasions where I’d like to see the laws slide. If a guy’s lying on the ground offside not obstructing the opposition and the 9 deliberately fires it into him to get an offside penalty you wouldn’t want to see the guy penalised for offside even though it might be correct to the letter of the law. This is one of the occasions I’d like to see the ref let it slide but it’s obviously completely subjective.