429 Responses to The Rugby Championship: New Zealand vs South Africa – Live Game Article

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  grootblousmile on 15 September 2013 at 2:43 pm

  The result of the game remains a contrived result, with match officials clearly at fault and to blame. I do not say New Zealand, it’s rugby fraternity or supporters are complicit.

  The result is a flawed one, that much is clear!

  A flawed result which stays etched in rugby history for ever, it is there, it is recorded, despite the fact that it is wrong and unjust!

  I do not have to condone, respect or recognise such a blatent blight.

  I watched the whole match again, I watched the replays of the incidents and I still cringe at the ineptness of not only the referee (as main culprit), but the lack of clear direction from the TMO and other match officials.

  A travesty is what we witnessed!

  To condone it would be wrong.
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  grootblousmile on 15 September 2013 at 2:54 pm

  I see Dan Carter Tweeted that the hit was perfectly legal….

  Got this off Rugby 365:

  “Nothing wrong with the tackle. Fell awkwardly and popped my AC joint #gutted #smashedembro.”
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  superBul on 15 September 2013 at 3:20 pm

  Hahaha NZ is o so inocent. Right
  Enjoy your dreamworld

  The Haka made you so arogant i am sure coreographers help you with your tantrums on the field too.
  More than 40 000 people liked the page to ban Piote and it is still climbing

  Go watch the feelings there, if you want to see anger go there.

  Mark Hinton on Stuff admited the contest was over the moment Bismarck was wrongfully dismissed.

  If NZ supporters believe it was unfair by the Ref, come out and join us in our fight for fair refereeing.If you dont come out and support our fight with the referee you are just like him. Finish and Klaar.
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  superBul on 15 September 2013 at 3:33 pm

  Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer may have refused to criticise Romain Poite for red-carding hard-man Bismarck du Plessis in their crunch Test against the All Blacks, but New Zealand media were less sympathetic to the French referee Sunday.

  New Zealand comprehensively won the top-of-the-table Rugby Championship clash 29-15 after the South African front rower was automatically red-carded early in the second half for a second yellow-card offence.

  The Springboks refused to debate the issue after the game Saturday with Meyer saying “the referee is always right”, but arch-rivals New Zealand were quick to defend du Plessis over the initial yellow card.

  All Blacks coach Steve Hansen felt the feisty hooker was “unlucky” to be sin-binned for a big hit on Dan Carter — which has sidelined the ace flyhalf for the remainder of the championship with a shoulder injury — and the New Zealand media backed him up.

  Sunday Star-Times writer Mark Hinton described Poite’s decision to dismiss du Plessis as “farcical” and said it tilted the match in the All Blacks’ favour.

  “The hooker’s shoulder-charge on Carter looked dodgy, but replays showed the hit was legit and that referee Romain Poite had over-reacted big time,” Hinton wrote.

  David Long, writing for Fairfax Media, said the first yellow card “was an extremely harsh call on the Sharks No 2, as his tackle on Dan Carter was perfectly timed and legal”.

  Former All Blacks captain Sean Fitzpatrick, in his Herald on Sunday column, said he also felt the tackle on Carter was legitimate.

  He questioned why “a referee can have that much influence on a game with so much (video) technology available” to review the incident.

  Herald on Sunday writer Gregor Paul said Carter was “fair game” and du Plessis had been onside, but he felt that the South African had deserved a red card for the second offence alone, when he rammed his elbow into the throat of Liam Messam.

  “The first offence was not a yellow, although what Bismarck du Plessis did with his head looked bad. But the second offence was a straight red. Seriously bad.”

  Hansen also felt there was an argument for a red card for the hit on Messam, when asked by the South African media if he felt the Springboks were “robbed”.

  “Let’s not go too far,” he said. “I don’t think it’s legal to go around putting your elbow on someone’s throat. The second one may well have been a red one, without it being a yellow, if you want to have a balanced look at it.”

  Even if the Springboks had played the full match with 15 men the consensus of the New Zealand press was that they were still no match for the All Blacks.

  It was a view shared by Springboks captain Jean de Villiers.
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  superBul on 15 September 2013 at 3:42 pm

  This is said over and over on various comments

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  M…..n Flynn – September 15, 2013 at 15:14
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  I disagree Coert, modern rugby is a game of attrition, so whatever happens in a 15 man game in the first 60 means little, it’s the last quarter (of a 15 man game) that matters most. The NZ first try didn’t look legit, i.e I didn’t see Reid ground it and thereafter NZ could only scored against us when we had one player down. Only once NZ got the bonus point did he start evening out the penalty count and player send offs. I find it remarkable that the NZ cameramen can catch every foul movement by the SA players, but can’t pick Nonu starting the ruckus after the Carter hit or any other of the ridiculous foul plays the AB’s usually display.

  The IRB didn’t want us walking into the location of the 2011 RWC and kicking the champions the IRB installed, through dodgy calls by the IRB. There is something far greater at play here, like filling seats down under methinks.

  That wry smile on McCaw said it all, the AB’s got away with murder, with the help of the IRB! Again!
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  superBul on 15 September 2013 at 3:52 pm

  Former All Blacks captain Taine Randell says fans have been robbed of the crunch game of the year.

  Writing in his column for Fairfax Media, Randell said: ‘Romain Poite’s officiating ruined last night’s Test between the All Blacks and the Springboks, a game between the world’s two best sides.

  ‘I am so disappointed with the way a number of controversial decisions, which still don’t make any sense to me, dictated the game.

  ‘Bismarck du Plessis’s yellow card for a legitimate tackle on Dan Carter was totally unfair, his second yellow which led to red was also marginal and as a fan I’ve not been able to watch the best of what we’ve got, against the best of South Africa.

  ‘Last night’s game was not decided on equal measure and at this level of the game, that is not acceptable.’
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  superBul on 15 September 2013 at 4:04 pm

  http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/9168308/Boks-refuse-to-wade-into-controversy

  The Boks did not moan, it is us the paying spectators who want a fair game and surely every True Rugby lover would.

  I hope and pray the IRB get it right.

  Even in the 2 SA curriecup games yesterday the refereeing was shocking. Certainly there is too much power in the cards and the people dishing them out is clueless. Is the Laws of the game too difficult to understand.
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  Pietman on 15 September 2013 at 4:41 pm

  @ superBul:
  Jy al klaar met die rugbesigheid broer, wat se die kwakke?
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  superBul on 15 September 2013 at 6:55 pm

  @ Pietman:
  nee eers more oggend