8 Responses to Super Rugby: Sharks – Du Plessis brothers heading to Jake in France?

• 

  1

  MacroPolo on 18 May 2015 at 3:55 pm

  Great news:

  Referee Rohan Hoffmann and TMO George Ayoub have been demoted following their officiating in the Sharks’ defeat to the Waratahs in Sydney.

  Ayoub made two crucial calls, disallowing what appeared a legitimate try by the Sharks’ S’bura Sithole, after awarding a contentious try to Waratahs wing Taqele Naiyaravoro, despite no clear evidence that the ball was grounded.

  Those two calls, as well as Hoffmann’s general handling of the match, have been strongly criticised, leading Sanzar’s game manager Lyndon Bray to take action.
• 

  2

  ryecatcher on 18 May 2015 at 6:44 pm

  @ MacroPolo:
  Bravo.Shamed into taking action?/?/
• 

  3

  nortie on 18 May 2015 at 6:56 pm

  Hoffmann is running the touch for the Force game this weekend, so I am failing to see how action has been taken against him.

  They will always cover for each other.
• 

  4

  Stormersboy on 18 May 2015 at 6:57 pm

  Rohan stuffed up the Stormers match badly too.

  Good riddance.

  Sadly he’ll probably be back.

  Bring back neutral refs.
• 

  5

  Tassies on 18 May 2015 at 7:37 pm

  Sithole’s try was always debatable because it wasn’t clear to the eye that he’d actually touched the chalk with his foot. They replayed it so many times and I was convinced. Naiyaravoro’s try was not a try because nobody could convince me that one could see the ball grounded. I was gobsmacked when he was awarded the try. That was straight robbery.
• 

  6

  Tassies on 18 May 2015 at 7:41 pm

  That said; I cannot think of one SA side who played this weekend, who actually deserved to win their match. Not even the Sharks. It was one of their better performances certainly but their backline still looks abysmally lacking in quality IMO. JP is actually shocking. He plays for 5 minutes and hides for 75, flailing his arms and pretending to look interested. Any idiot can see he’s not there to play. What a dick.
• 

  7

  Tassies on 18 May 2015 at 7:46 pm

  The Lions were simply outplayed by the better, classier team on the day. The Brumbies are packed with Wallabies and just because they are not All Blacks doesn’t mean they are not the real deal. Because they most certainly are and they pumped us good and solid to prove that point. I think, on current form, we will not beat the Oz in the RC in the lead-up to the RWC. Our rugby is looking rotten to the core with the exception of the scrums.
• 

  8

  Bullscot on 18 May 2015 at 11:08 pm

  Tassies wrote:

  I think, on current form, we will not beat the Oz in the RC in the lead-up to the RWC.

  Hi Tassies hope that isn’t the case, don’t worry there are top quality reinforcements the Boks can call on from up north – Francois Louw, Bryan Habana, Ruan Pienaar, Morne Steyn, Franco vd Merwe, Schalk Brits, CJ Stander (yes I know he seems to be eager to play for Ireland BUT don’t think he would be available to play for them until sometime late in the knockout stages of this World Cup, so if Mr Meyer made a call who knows he may be tempted…), would also have said Ulster’s Franco vd Merwe who has been playing so well he has made it into the PRO12 ‘dream team’ this season but he seemed to pick up a nasty ankle injury playing against Glasgow on Saturday.
  Although of course Aus have changed their policy and could also call on some players from up north, will be interesting to see if they do who they will bring in, Drew Mitchell and Brock James are just two good ones off the top of my head.