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SA vs Manu Samoa
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<blockquote data-quote="ozzy" data-source="post: 143057"><p>That was a shameful display of refereeing in a game where it really wasn't needed. It could have been a great match, but Paul Honiss seemed intent on destroying every bit of momentum Samoa built up and wilfully turned a blind eye to 3 illegal tackles in the first half, a high tackle followed by a collaring, followed by a head high shot on Lemi while jumping for the ball in the air. The only time he deigned to ping somebody for a high shot was the marginal call against Samoa where the player ducked into it. Pathetic. Add to that the malfunctioning clock and every 50-50 call going against Samoa and I really felt for our boys. They gave a good account of themselves though as they had no chance in the set piece butlooked pretty dangerous on attack until Honiss completely took away any impetus they had gained and only began impartial refereeing after the game was dead and gone.</p><p>I don't even want to mention the disallowed try, what a total load of shite, we see those tries scored on a regular basis in the S14 and it was absolute rubbish disallowing it. Total and completely biased refereeing by the ref and his touchies. It made me physically sick. </p><p>I am very hopeful Samoa lodge an official complaint against Mr. Honiss' refereeing as we need to strike a bit of fear into refs and make them treat us with the same respect they show to high profile sides when making decisions. The only way to do that is to make them think long and hard about their call rather than having the thought in their head, "ah well they're a bunch of islanders from a tiny rock in the ocean and they're not supposed to win this game anyway."</p><p>Samoa needs impartial refereeing if it is to have any chance against England, playing against 16 men as they did tonight is ridiculous.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ozzy, post: 143057"] That was a shameful display of refereeing in a game where it really wasn't needed. It could have been a great match, but Paul Honiss seemed intent on destroying every bit of momentum Samoa built up and wilfully turned a blind eye to 3 illegal tackles in the first half, a high tackle followed by a collaring, followed by a head high shot on Lemi while jumping for the ball in the air. The only time he deigned to ping somebody for a high shot was the marginal call against Samoa where the player ducked into it. Pathetic. Add to that the malfunctioning clock and every 50-50 call going against Samoa and I really felt for our boys. They gave a good account of themselves though as they had no chance in the set piece butlooked pretty dangerous on attack until Honiss completely took away any impetus they had gained and only began impartial refereeing after the game was dead and gone. I don't even want to mention the disallowed try, what a total load of shite, we see those tries scored on a regular basis in the S14 and it was absolute rubbish disallowing it. Total and completely biased refereeing by the ref and his touchies. It made me physically sick. I am very hopeful Samoa lodge an official complaint against Mr. Honiss' refereeing as we need to strike a bit of fear into refs and make them treat us with the same respect they show to high profile sides when making decisions. The only way to do that is to make them think long and hard about their call rather than having the thought in their head, "ah well they're a bunch of islanders from a tiny rock in the ocean and they're not supposed to win this game anyway." Samoa needs impartial refereeing if it is to have any chance against England, playing against 16 men as they did tonight is ridiculous. [/QUOTE]
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