2022/23 Champions/Challenge Cup

[Paddington Bear]

Healy is being particularly tedious today

[Torquemada 1420]

More nonsense. Le Garrec been Racing's best player so they take him off and replace him with a FH.

Woki walking himself out of the ntl team.

{EDIT} Should really learn to ignore Healey.

[JM2K6]

Advantage: another law Brace is unfamiliar with.

Ben Arous also swam up the side of the ruck that had alrady been formed and then illegally goes for the ball anyway

wonderful stuff Andrew, wonderful stuff

[ASMO]

Brace has been terrible, clearly hands on the ground there.

[Paddington Bear]

LMAO. Racing can't score against 13 and then concede one against 14.

Paddington, if I were you, I'd stay in the bars.

It is under discussion…

[JM2K6]

Er there's a deliberate knock-on there surely?!

[sockwithaticket]

Brace has been terrible, clearly hands on the ground there.

Plus in at the side and definitely not first man. Take your pick of reasons why that wasn't a penalty really.

[Torquemada 1420]

Flaaaaaaaaaaaaaake

[JM2K6]

Does Brace have any idea what's happening in front of his eyes? Some of the stuff he fails to see directly in front of him is absolutely fucking insane.

Surely if you're discussing whether it's a penalty try you need to see who would stop the intended recipient of the pass - not the guy who enters the shot after that player has gone through the gap?!

[Torquemada 1420]

Actually, Tao would have taken that but he was obstructed by his own player. I doubt it was a deliberate knock on.

[ASMO]

How is that not a penakty try?

[Torquemada 1420]

I'm really at a loss which is the greater embarrassment here: Racing or Brace?

[JM2K6]

How is that not a penakty try?

IMO a bit far from the line to be a PT.

[JM2K6]

Are you kidding me with that Brace - you can't fucking just put a hand out to stop the pass like that!!!

[Torquemada 1420]

Flaaaaaaaaaaaaake. So...... pen kicked dead, fucked up pass in the middle, knock on to heap pressure on your own team and then a deliberate knock on to concede a pen try. Russell in a nutshell. Everyone sees the clever d*ck stuff but the sh*t he comes up with all too frequently somehow gets ignored.

[Paddington Bear]

Brace is a clown.

How many yellows has Russell got for deliberate knock ons now?

[JM2K6]

That's a clear penalty try.

Brace eventually comes to the right decision but it's baffling to me that he didn't realise at the time that it was dodgy.

[sockwithaticket]

That one has to be a penalty try.

[Brazil]

Oh Toooorq!

[JM2K6]

This is great stuff, Finn v Smith is worth the entrance money

Smith is winning that battle hands down.

Nah, it's not that simple - Russell's done some great work.

OK it's clearer now.

[ASMO]

That's a clear penalty try.

Brace eventually comes to the right decision but it's baffling to me that he didn't realise at the time that it was dodgy.

He was doing his best to find a reason not to award it.

[JM2K6]

HOW IS THAT A PENALTY TO RACING

[Torquemada 1420]

Oh Toooorq!

Not like I didn't say so, eh?

The sooner he f**ks off to Bath to wreak havoc there, the better.

[Torquemada 1420]

Smith is winning that battle hands down.

Nah, it's not that simple - Russell's done some great work.

OK it's clearer now.

[fishfoodie]

Did Marler just start again with the, "Bants", in front of a ref ?

[JM2K6]

HOW IS THAT A KNOCK ON AGAINST QUINS

honestly this is remarkable stuff, just inventing shit

[Torquemada 1420]

Russell should hand his entire pay to Le Garrec.

[Tichtheid]

YES!

Get in Racing

[JM2K6]

Ah well. Congrats Racing. Can't really say we blew it given we were in the lead for abut ten seconds and had our own period of being heavily depleted due to cards. Shame Brace is so bad at his job, surely he can't keep being in charge of matches at this level?

If I cared about this tournament that would bother me a lot more.

[Brazil]

Quins robbed.

[Torquemada 1420]

YES!

Get in Racing

Totally undeserved. Quins will be kicking themselves.

[Lady P]

Joke officiating at the end there.

[ASMO]

Andrew Brace, you are a fucking disgrace, you should be removed from the panel with immediate effect. I dont want to use the word cheat, but i struggle to put that all at the door of incompetence.

[sockwithaticket]

You have to try and be good enough to take officiating out of the equation and restarts are an area where Quins were really bad, but some of Brace's poor decisions directly gave points to Racing.

He's on the list with Dickson as guy's who just aren't up to it at even domestic level, let alone Europe.

[OomStruisbaai]

Great win by Racing.

[JM2K6]

Brace isn't a cheat, he just has no idea what he's looking at. And tbf the phantom knock on that was completely invented was not his shout - that was the AR getting in on the act.

[Torquemada 1420]

Andrew Brace, you are a fucking disgrace, you should be removed from the panel with immediate effect. I dont want to use the word cheat, but i struggle to put that all at the door of incompetence.

Oooooh. Careful. You'll end up sounding like the whole of France.

[JM2K6]

You have to try and be good enough to take officiating out of the equation and restarts are an area where Quins were really bad, but some of Brace's poor decisions directly gave points to Racing.

- Restarts
- Aaron Morris
- A few lineout flakes
- Some very poor defensive reads

But still the best we've played for a while. Probably no surprise it happens with Smith back at 10 and Evans back at 7.

[Lobby]

You have to try and be good enough to take officiating out of the equation and restarts are an area where Quins were really bad, but some of Brace's poor decisions directly gave points to Racing.

Racing’s last 6 points all came from pretty clear errors from Brace, as did the final scrum.

[_Os_]

Feel bad for Harlequins fans after that final 10 crazy minutes, cynical cheating won.