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Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:01 pm**

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 4:59 pm Chat can carry the ball, eh?

Bit marginal with the player in front of him.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:01 pm**

Not sure that can count as same maul, looked like daylight between Arous and Chat which means the former was simply blocking.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:02 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:03 pm**

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

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:04 pm**

No one likes to agree with Austin, but he was spot on there. Nige is jokeshop.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:09 pm**

Impressive defence from Racing there.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:13 pm**

That was a kick under no pressure, that's advantage over.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:14 pm**

Raggs wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:09 pm Impressive defence from Racing there.

Agree.
Hard to see Exeter hanging in here.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:15 pm**

All Racing now - Exeter really up against it.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:24 pm**

That is not a deliberate knock on

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:25 pm**

WTF is Nigel asking about. Penalty try and yellow card? For a knock on?

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:25 pm**

That's curtains for Exeter.

Posted: **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....

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:26 pm**

That was not a deliberate knock on. And I want R92 to win this but FFS.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:26 pm**

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.

Posted: **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?

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:31 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:31 pm**

"Hands away"

Gives the pen for the turnover.

As someone supporting Exeter, FFS Nige.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:31 pm**

What dire rugby by Racing

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:31 pm**

No way that was a penalty. Even the TMO was telling Nige not to call it.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:31 pm**

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

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:32 pm**

1 point in it, a couple of minutes left. guess the ref...

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:35 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:36 pm**

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

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:36 pm**

He made decisions that benefitted Racing earlier. Been inconsistent with both.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:36 pm**

Oh and a clock controversy

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:37 pm**

Fuuck...thats time surely?

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:38 pm**

Brilliant...well done Exeter what a club.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:38 pm**

Nige has fucked this right up.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:39 pm**

Nowt like a bit of farce to wrap up proceedings.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:39 pm**

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

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:39 pm**

Well done Russell you should play in Clermont

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:40 pm**

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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:41 pm**

Nigel just fixing up some more content for his dinner circuit

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:44 pm**

Wouldn't have been an issue if Russell knew how to drop a goal.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:45 pm**

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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