Champions Cup Final

Where goats go to escape
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Magpie26
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Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 4:59 pm Chat can carry the ball, eh?
Bit marginal with the player in front of him.
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sockwithaticket
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Not sure that can count as same maul, looked like daylight between Arous and Chat which means the former was simply blocking.
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Theflier wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:00 pm Loose head running a blocking line, very poor refereeing
It's almost an accepted tactic these days sadly.
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Theflier wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:00 pm Loose head running a blocking line, very poor refereeing
Nige is only interested in producing a superficially entertaining game.
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Blackmac wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:01 pm
Theflier wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:00 pm Loose head running a blocking line, very poor refereeing
It's almost an accepted tactic these days sadly.
Mauls thanks to break aways are hard enough to defend, but he had 4 feet of air between him and chat. Nigel is making a mockery of this, he needed to be put to pasture years ago
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No one likes to agree with Austin, but he was spot on there. Nige is jokeshop.
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Impressive defence from Racing there.
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That was a kick under no pressure, that's advantage over.
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Raggs wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:09 pm Impressive defence from Racing there.
Agree.
Hard to see Exeter hanging in here.
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Ovals
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All Racing now - Exeter really up against it.
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Tichtheid
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That is not a deliberate knock on
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Nige is fecking joker.

"No! No! Ruck formed!"

Then the exeter player doesn't stop, eventually turns it, and Nige lets it go.
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WTF is Nigel asking about. Penalty try and yellow card? For a knock on?
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That's curtains for Exeter.
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Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:24 pm That is not a deliberate knock on
Yes it is....
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That was not a deliberate knock on. And I want R92 to win this but FFS.
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Raggs wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:25 pm Nige is fecking joker.

"No! No! Ruck formed!"

Then the exeter player doesn't stop, eventually turns it, and Nige lets it go.
He really is a done deal on this display. The Racing steal at the next one was well out as well and he pulled it back.
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ScarfaceClaw wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:26 pm That was not a deliberate knock on. And I want R92 to win this but FFS.
One handed and knocks the ball down to ground?
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Raggs wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:27 pm
ScarfaceClaw wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:26 pm That was not a deliberate knock on. And I want R92 to win this but FFS.
One handed and knocks the ball down to ground?
Tough to call it deliberate.
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ScarfaceClaw wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:30 pm
Raggs wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:27 pm
ScarfaceClaw wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:26 pm That was not a deliberate knock on. And I want R92 to win this but FFS.
One handed and knocks the ball down to ground?
Tough to call it deliberate.
He waves one hand in front of the ball. It may have been instinct, but you can't do that.

Nige is a bloody awful ref though.
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"Hands away"

Gives the pen for the turnover.

As someone supporting Exeter, FFS Nige.
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Magpie26
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What dire rugby by Racing :thumbdown:
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Blackmac
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No way that was a penalty. Even the TMO was telling Nige not to call it.
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Raggs wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:26 pm
Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:24 pm That is not a deliberate knock on
Yes it is....


Well, it is, but only according to the laws :grin:
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1 point in it, a couple of minutes left. guess the ref...
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Racing have been screwed by Nigel Owens. That penalty on the Exeter line was bizarre, he came straight in from the side and was arguably off his feet as well.
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Tichtheid
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This is what you want from a final, two teams scoring in different ways, bags of tries, close as it can be, still all to play for in the 79th minute
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sockwithaticket
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He made decisions that benefitted Racing earlier. Been inconsistent with both.
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Tichtheid
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Oh and a clock controversy
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tc27
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Fuuck...thats time surely?
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tc27
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Brilliant...well done Exeter what a club.
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Nige has fucked this right up.
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Nowt like a bit of farce to wrap up proceedings.
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Theflier
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Its not fucking hard nige, they had 1 minute from the pen. Pen was at 79.03. let them dither, and kick, or lose the kick and end the game. farcical
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laurent
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Well done Russell you should play in Clermont :lol:
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Raggs
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Think Nige needs to be retired from the top level now. I thought he probably would be with the new breakdown interpretations, he's still just doing his own thing, and now it's even in greater contrast.
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sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:36 pm He made decisions that benefitted Racing earlier. Been inconsistent with both.
Not when they were defending on their own line he didn't. Not all penalties are equal!

You need to watch the replay, he just runs back and goes straight in from the side. Right in front of Owens as well.
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Theflier
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Nigel just fixing up some more content for his dinner circuit :clap: :clap: :clap:
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Hal Jordan
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Wouldn't have been an issue if Russell knew how to drop a goal.
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sockwithaticket
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Kawazaki wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:41 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:36 pm He made decisions that benefitted Racing earlier. Been inconsistent with both.
Not when they were defending on their own line he didn't. Not all penalties are equal!

You need to watch the replay, he just runs back and goes straight in from the side. Right in front of Owens as well.
I don't need to re-watch anything, I already called that turnover out as a bad call.

A couple of Nige's calls directly lead to scoring field position for Racing and he didn't yellow card a Racing deliberate knock on far more blatant than Francis' one in the first half, so, yeah, he's disadvantaged both teams over the course of the game to a roughly equal extent.
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