Rubbish. The ref was fine. Cummins high shot looked very bad in real time, and I would have called it as well. On the replay it was shown to be just below the line of the shoulders, so it was a bit unlucky but still a fair call.
Mafi's knock-on was dubious but it did bounce a long way forward. He shouldn't have dropped the kick-off in the first place anyway.
Sharpe wasn't penalised in the play you are referring to. It was the Force player who dove in at the base of the oncoming maul, bringing it straight to ground. Fair call.
The Force were not hard done by at all. They were deservedly reamed by a better team. The ref had nothing to do with it, and I thought his management at the scrums was very good in fact.
Ok. I thought in real time cummins tackle looked fine. It was never close too being around the neck.
Mafi'a knock on went back. It's as simple as that. I agree about the fact it rolled forward and that does make it look worse but you cant say he should of caught it. Are we going too start too call all dropped balls forward? That's what your implying.
Im sure the maul never went down even after the penalty was awarded against sharp and its more the point Sharp could have had serious damage done too his neck and I have seen refs recently penalize head locks in mauls. This case was the worst head lock I have seen this year.
All of this stuff was never going too change the outcome and the post was after many of beers lol. Also don't attack every force poster on here as I was the one one who really heated things up.
I agree we would have never won the way we played I am just pointing out the mistakes the ref made and they made it harder too stay in the game. I am going too leave it at that because it's the right thing too do but so everyone knows I do not believe we should have come close too winning. The stormers are a bloody good side and they deserved too win.
JOC (James O'Connor) cummins sharp had a very good game.
I agree with what everyone is saying. Without JOC (James O'Connor) we do not look like scoring. It's a huge problem and we need Mitch Inman and pocock back to get better penetration through the middle and more pilfers at the ruck.
It's like the tahs with no phil.
It shows how good a team like the crusaders are. They have a chance at every position too penetrate and loosing one or too players are not going too bother them too much. Eg mcaw.
Go the force!!!!
