116 Responses to Match Officials: June Internationals – Guess what, Bokke gets Poite, Walsh & Pastrana to referee!

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  cane on 2 April 2014 at 12:35 pm

  @ grootblousmile:
  The Ref who blew NZ out of the 2007 RWC was Stuart Barnes.
  And we have forgiven him.

  He owes us one. A big one.
  He knows it.
  we know it.

  If he does not ballance the ledger”, he will rot for eternity, in the fires of hades.

  He is now Our …….”Ace in the hole”.
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  MacroBull on 2 April 2014 at 12:36 pm

  @ Puma:
  Well technically he has been part of the coaching staff for a while now. he is just a coach that plays as well.

  The Bulls are years ahead of the other teams : D

  it is better that picking a player that so so happens to be coincidentally on holiday.

  Is there a rule on how many coaching staff to take? 😛
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  nortierd on 2 April 2014 at 12:37 pm

  28@GBS
  The ref in the 3rd ’81 test was diabolical, but he was a Welshman if I remember correctly, not a NZ ref.
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  cane on 2 April 2014 at 12:39 pm

  @ nga puhi</b
  The Union Steam Ship Company Rangitira,
  if I am not mistaken.

  😉
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  nga puhi on 2 April 2014 at 12:39 pm

  @ grootblousmile:
  I thought Norling was Welsh, so how does that make him a NZ home town ref? 😆
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  grootblousmile on 2 April 2014 at 12:39 pm

  30 @ nga puhi:
  The China brought up and cntinues to bring up Gert, 38 years ago… but is conveniently silent about Norling…

  We’ll never know whether the Bokke would have beaten the All Blacks at Eden Park now, will we…. convenient, hey! At the stage of the 1st incident against Bissie the Bokke forwards were al over the All Blacks.. your argument holds no water.
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  cane on 2 April 2014 at 12:42 pm

  @ nortierd:
  The best and most respected Referee in the World, at the time. Clive Norling.
  The first ever Ref to use a digital timepiece to keep track of time in an International.

  How things have changed.
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  grootblousmile on 2 April 2014 at 12:42 pm

  33 @ nortierd:
  It was clear in who’s pocket he was… and that’s the gist of it.
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  cane on 2 April 2014 at 12:44 pm

  @ nga puhi:
  Home Town Ref’s wear gold watches.
  Not Digital Casios.

  😉
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  nortierd on 2 April 2014 at 12:44 pm

  cane wrote:

  @ nortierd:
  The best and most respected Referee in the World, at the time. Clive Norling.
  The first ever Ref to use a digital timepiece to keep track of time in an International.
  How things have changed.

  
  I suppose he is still part of the NZ school’s history curriculum?
  You know the chapter about ” people who we revere and who helped shape the history of this wonderful country”
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  grootblousmile on 2 April 2014 at 12:47 pm

  Freshly baked scones in the house… time for some munchies, chat later
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  nortierd on 2 April 2014 at 12:47 pm

  Just for the record, I don’t like Poitte, not because he shafted us, but because he is a Frenchie and involved in rugby…spit, spit, spit
  Their refs are just as horrible as their rugby side
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  nga puhi on 2 April 2014 at 12:48 pm

  @ grootblousmile:
  what makes you so certain if Bissy wasnt carded you would have?

  NZ had scored two tries in by the 21st minute of that match, with your forwards “dominating”

  Read in the 3rd minute and Retallick in the 21st.
  SA got their first try in the 31st minute.

  but jah, SA wuz robbed man, its a conspiracy man
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  Puma on 2 April 2014 at 12:48 pm

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  @ nga puhi:

  Mate we will never know if Boks would have won if we had not lost Bissie for 50 min last year.

  Also because of your team able to score the bonus point with us a man down in Aucland it meant the return game against ABs at Ellis Park we had to go against the style of play we would have played against the ABs by going for broke to get the 4 tries. That way we let in far too many gaps for your players to run through for tries. We hardly ever play a lose game against the ABs but we did there. I personally necer cared avout winning the 4 Nations (which it should be called), but rather we played it tight and gone for a win. Had we played to our strengths at Ellis Park like that then I have no doubt we would have won that game. Instead Meyer went for the 4 tries and it cost us the win you simply donT play like that against the ABs who thrive on that style. You let them in too easy even if they a man down.

  So you see losing Bissie at Aucland cost us huge as I doubt ABs would have got the 4 tries there as we were trying to keep it tight there but with our best player out we had no chance. It ruined the 4 Nations cup right there.

  Another thing about the Flour Bomb tour I warched that game early hours in the morning here and no way ecer was that a penalty in the end to ABs in the last game.
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  BrumbiesBoy on 2 April 2014 at 12:49 pm

  cane wrote:

  @ nga puhi:
  Home Town Ref’s wear gold watches.
  Not Digital Casios.

  You’re not on about Mr Bevan by any chance are you?

  “The best and most respected Referee in the World, at the time.”

  
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  nortierd on 2 April 2014 at 12:50 pm

  @Nga 43
  “Read in the 3rd minute and Retallick in the 21st.
  SA got their first try in the 31st minute.”

  We were pacing ourselves, it a marathon, not a sprint you know
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  Puma on 2 April 2014 at 12:50 pm

  44 @ Puma:

  Lose = loose. Ignore the rest of the typos guys as I am on my iPad again…
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  nga puhi on 2 April 2014 at 12:50 pm

  I thought NZinChina was just complimenting SA when mentioning Gerty, having found such a suitable replacement in Berry.

  makes Sir Bryce look like an amateur tbh
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  cane on 2 April 2014 at 12:52 pm

  @ BrumbiesBoy:
  LOL.

  🙂
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  nga puhi on 2 April 2014 at 12:53 pm

  @ nortierd:

  lol good one boet, SA teams dont “pace” themselves, they go hell for leather for 60 minutes then NZ invariably run away with it.

  think FNB stadium and Smit finding Cinderella’s slipper

  20-0 in that second half

  pacing themselves you say?
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  Puma on 2 April 2014 at 12:54 pm

  32 @ MacroBull:
  Crafty move by Bulls. If any of our playersick up a injury while on tour then we have to send for a replacement with little time to train with the team as they arrive late.

  Sharks should then take John Smit along as the coaching Staff…
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  cane on 2 April 2014 at 12:54 pm

  We Kiwi’s do appreciate you Saffa’s not mentioning “The Cricket”.
  This being a Rugby site and all.
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  nga puhi on 2 April 2014 at 12:55 pm

  @ nga puhi:
  eish, that 20-nil second half wasnt the Smit test, it was another one, further illustrating my point?

  just glad those games werent at altitude, we would have been stuffed.

  oh wait 😀
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  Puma on 2 April 2014 at 12:56 pm

  Daft iPad does my head in just make too many mistakes using this. Have workers here in my study so cant use my pc there so on my IPad today. Damn i am useless with it…
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  BrumbiesBoy on 2 April 2014 at 12:57 pm

  52 @ cane:
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  Puma on 2 April 2014 at 12:58 pm

  52 @ cane:
  Cane what. Happened in the cricket? I have not followed too much of itof late.
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  grootblousmile on 2 April 2014 at 12:58 pm

  Look, fact of the matter is we do not want kak refs, now do we?

  Whether you guys believe Gert (38 years ago) or Clive Norling (33 years ago) or Bryce Lawrence or Derek Bevan or Stuart Barnes or this freegin doff Romain Poite clown cheated, made senseless mistakes or whatever… it does not matter one iota!

  What we want and demand is good refereeing, resulting in a fair outcome of a game… and not determining the result as a direct result of his actions.

  I want the referees and match officials to be facilitators of the game, not determine the outcome!

  I want proper sanctions to be applied against those who cannot maintain that standard, not for the cracks to be plastered over.

  Surely that much we should agree upon!
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  nga puhi on 2 April 2014 at 12:59 pm

  @ Puma:

  SA rolled us for 60 chasing 120 in the T20 to qualify for the semi’s.

  I imagine NZ cricket fans share similar feelings with SA rugby fans, never being good enough and all.
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  Scrumdown on 2 April 2014 at 1:04 pm

  nga puhi wrote:

  SA rolled us for 60 chasing 120 in the T20 to qualify for the semi’s.

  Sri Lanka surely? Not SA.
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  cane on 2 April 2014 at 1:04 pm

  @ Puma:
  We(NZ), got ourselves unceremoniously exited from the WT20 Comp by Nation formerly known as Ceylon.