Rassie vs The World

[Postiger2]

Except for the red card, allowing illegal binding for the entire game and giving the try when the scorer had lost control.

SA have been the better side but RE has got inside the official's head imho

[Scott1]

Except for the red card, allowing illegal binding for the entire game and giving the try when the scorer had lost control.

SA have been the better side but RE has got inside the official's head imho

Red was a yellow,correct call,try was too. He’s let the Lions off with 2 blatant turnover penalties too,great reffing today!

[Postiger2]

Except for the red card, allowing illegal binding for the entire game and giving the try when the scorer had lost control.

SA have been the better side but RE has got inside the official's head imho

Red was a yellow,correct call,try was too. He’s let the Lions off with 2 blatant turnover penalties too,great reffing today!

Disagree on both counts but there you go. It's irrelevant that Kolbe wasn't looking at the ball, it's dangerous play, if that's not an SA player in a home game then it's a red card. I was amazed that Kolbe only got a yellow. He didn't get a yellow for going head in on Tom Curry either. Nigel Owens seemed to think the incident was worthy of a red- I'll go with his opinion.

SA have been the better side but they've had the benefit of the big calls.

[Scott1]

Except for the red card, allowing illegal binding for the entire game and giving the try when the scorer had lost control.

SA have been the better side but RE has got inside the official's head imho

Red was a yellow,correct call,try was too. He’s let the Lions off with 2 blatant turnover penalties too,great reffing today!

Disagree on both counts but there you go. It's irrelevant that Kolbe wasn't looking at the ball, it's dangerous play, if that's not an SA player in a home game then it's a red card. I was amazed that Kolbe only got a yellow. He didn't get a yellow for going head in on Tom Curry either. Nigel Owens seemed to think the incident was worthy of a red- I'll go with his opinion.

SA have been the better side but they've had the benefit of the big calls.

He said Watson was a yellow last week and it wasn’t given so there you go!

[Postiger2]

Red was a yellow,correct call,try was too. He’s let the Lions off with 2 blatant turnover penalties too,great reffing today!

Disagree on both counts but there you go. It's irrelevant that Kolbe wasn't looking at the ball, it's dangerous play, if that's not an SA player in a home game then it's a red card. I was amazed that Kolbe only got a yellow. He didn't get a yellow for going head in on Tom Curry either. Nigel Owens seemed to think the incident was worthy of a red- I'll go with his opinion.

SA have been the better side but they've had the benefit of the big calls.

He said Watson was a yellow last week and it wasn’t given so there you go!

So? That doesn't make today's decision any more correct does it?! Anyway, we're not going to agree so let's not bore everyone else any further!

[JP14]

Rassie’s video was more alleviating the pressure off his players than anything else.

[Chobbsy]

So Rassie Erasmus has taken the off field antics to a new level and released an hour long video including 23 clips in which he goes in pretty hard on the refereeing team from last week, personally not sure how I feel about all this, on the one hand I have been pretty critical about refereeing standards in the last few years so its refreshing to see somebody official pointing this stuff out but on the other hand a 1 hour public video is maybe not the right way to do it.

Edit: forgot to add the link to the video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epFrwtf ... ymag.co.za

It worked, should have been 2 red cards for SA but the ref and more importantly the TMO bottled it

[Scott1]

So Rassie Erasmus has taken the off field antics to a new level and released an hour long video including 23 clips in which he goes in pretty hard on the refereeing team from last week, personally not sure how I feel about all this, on the one hand I have been pretty critical about refereeing standards in the last few years so its refreshing to see somebody official pointing this stuff out but on the other hand a 1 hour public video is maybe not the right way to do it.

Edit: forgot to add the link to the video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epFrwtf ... ymag.co.za

It worked, should have been 2 red cards for SA but the ref and more importantly the TMO bottled it

The Lions got away with a couple too,Mako shoulder to Etzebeths head and Itojes knee on De Allendes neck. We could say well the citing officer has seen nothing in them but looks to me like he could be blind!

[Tigerbeat]

TMO for the first two test has been a South African.....how about Barnes doing the 3rd Test if he is still in SA?

[JP14]

So Rassie Erasmus has taken the off field antics to a new level and released an hour long video including 23 clips in which he goes in pretty hard on the refereeing team from last week, personally not sure how I feel about all this, on the one hand I have been pretty critical about refereeing standards in the last few years so its refreshing to see somebody official pointing this stuff out but on the other hand a 1 hour public video is maybe not the right way to do it.

Edit: forgot to add the link to the video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epFrwtf ... ymag.co.za

It worked, should have been 2 red cards for SA but the ref and more importantly the TMO bottled it

The Lions got away with a couple too,Mako shoulder to Etzebeths head and Itojes knee on De Allendes neck. We could say well the citing officer has seen nothing in them but looks to me like he could be blind!

Or the biscuits were sent in advance.

[Tigerbeat]

https://www.skysports.com/share/12371109

Rassie summoned to a misconduct hearing.

[Pellsey]

https://www.skysports.com/share/12371109

Rassie summoned to a misconduct hearing.

So instead of acknowledging his valid points and improving the standard of refereeing, World Rugby has decided to act like a third world dictatorship and punish any cricism. I would say unbelievable, but unfortunately our once great sport has history of such.

[Tigerbeat]

https://www.skysports.com/share/12371109

Rassie summoned to a misconduct hearing.

So instead of acknowledging his valid points and improving the standard of refereeing, World Rugby has decided to act like a third world dictatorship and punish any cricism. I would say unbelievable, but unfortunately our once great sport has history of such.

He may have had valid points but there are the correct channels to go down. It was not juts a counter punch but an all out attack on the officials. One hour of moaning..........he deserves any punishment that comes his way in my opinion.

[Chobbsy]

https://www.skysports.com/share/12371109

Rassie summoned to a misconduct hearing.

So instead of acknowledging his valid points and improving the standard of refereeing, World Rugby has decided to act like a third world dictatorship and punish any cricism. I would say unbelievable, but unfortunately our once great sport has history of such.

As in all walks of life there is a right way and a wrong way, a 62 minute rant and a burner account in my humble opinion is the wrong way
You could imagine the fall out from him that would come if it had been Gatland ranting

[Pellsey]

https://www.skysports.com/share/12371109

Rassie summoned to a misconduct hearing.

So instead of acknowledging his valid points and improving the standard of refereeing, World Rugby has decided to act like a third world dictatorship and punish any cricism. I would say unbelievable, but unfortunately our once great sport has history of such.

As in all walks of life there is a right way and a wrong way, a 62 minute rant and a burner account in my humble opinion is the wrong way
You could imagine the fall out from him that would come if it had been Gatland ranting

I would agree that there may have been "better", maybe more official, methods to get his points accross, but maybe he is tired of doing that and having no changes made. I can never see World Rugby actually admitting any fault of their own.