The only major blemish, although maybe my wife and I are wrong, watching at home of course, was that everybody appeared to miss a possible penalty against the Chiefs after a knock-on. on the last 15 minutes or so, I think it was Kerr-Barlow appeared to touch the ball attempting to catch a kick, it appeared to go forward, and a retreating Chiefs player picked it up.
Did anybody else see this incident in similar terms? Or are we being too harsh? A penalty just out from the Chiefs 22 would have been pretty handy at the time.
I do know what you're referring to only because Mowen tried to point it out to the ref afterwards but I'm assuming (pub with no sound) that he ruled it as maybe not being intentional?
Anyways, my only criticism was that in the first half the Chiefs had a lot of lazy forwards loitering offside at the rucks ala the All Blacks which let them get some extra metres around the ruck... however, in the second half they seemed to curb it?
They were also hanging onto Brumby defenders around the ruck and there wasn't a scrum where Hooper wasn't being held back so he could swoop onto SBW... but thankfully McCabe had him covered...
Anyways, I don't think any of that really had any effect on the match, and the Brumbies can only blame themselves for such silly errors in that last few minutes...
There was that MASSIVE forward pass which led to that Chiefs counter attack back down the field, but the ref was in no position to rule on that... the assistant however (I've noticed that in a number of games lately that these guys tend to make many more worse decisions than the actual ref)...
But in hindsight I agree with Sully that the match was generally reffed pretty well...
