This attitude is a bit binary, I don’t want my team to sacrifice all non WC games for the four year cycle, but if at some intervals they want to fine tune things build some depth I don’t see it as an issue, you have to remember covid robbed us of a fair bit of game time so this WC cycle is an odd one.
I think most of it was down to aussie getting all the rub of the green game 1 but the ref being pedantic game 2 and us getting allowed to kill the Aus attack on our line without penalty so pretty much non competition in both games unfortunately. And I thought URC refereeing was poor.
He was injured but there was no sub.
This I think is fair, something like a count of 3 with a warning on the 3rd and the 4th is a card for penalties in the 22. Maybe give refs a little leeway if there was a big gap between the warning and the next infringement (eg say 20 minutes had pass the ref would be allowed to re-issue the warning rather than instant card).
I mean - not really. We've been bad for a while. Plus I win the moral high ground by not blaming the ref.
Calling a ref bad and blaming a ref for a loss are two different things. We would have lost regardless of what the ref did, but that doesn't make rubbish calls immune from scrutiny. To this day there is only one referee I will ever blame for a loss, and most South Africans will know who that was, and which game it was.
Yeah right I see. Sometimes it's hard to make out the nuance given the cacophony of ref based wailing that eminates out of South Africa following every loss (and even some wins).
SA has, undoubtedly, the dumbest supporters of any team in the world. It's embarrassing reading comments from SA fans on social media pages and the like. There are a pod of us who take the game seriously, know the laws, and respect other teams but the majority of us are a bunch of imbeciles who make me cringe. They are the ones ref this ref that quota player this quota player that non stop. We can only apologize for them I suppose.
