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Scotland were not good enough. 

Red card being missed by the TMO that early in the game may have changed things and we are right to feel aggrieved about that, but the inaccuracy in lineout and an inability to change up the attack to break the rush defence was the biggest problem for me. 

 

 

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Kind of as expected. Darcy f*cked it big style in first half. Whitehouse should be retired from rugby as he is ultimately the one who called the red card that never was. But the difference between 78 mins v 14 cannot possibly be passed off as whinging about referees - it was egregious, blatant and just disgraceful. Gardner was shite, Scotland made too many basic mistakes to stay in the game. Line out was a shambles. Hopefully we can bring that level of intensity against Ireland. 

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100% it should be a red especially after the England one yesterday but that result was all down to scotlands mistakes, don’t think we won a line out in their half. Gifted so many penalties and turnovers. 

obviously South Africa are very good and closed down every chance we had but we didn’t help ourselves. 

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2 minutes ago, PrestersKTID said:

100% it should be a red especially after the England one yesterday but that result was all down to scotlands mistakes, don’t think we won a line out in their half. Gifted so many penalties and turnovers. 

obviously South Africa are very good and closed down every chance we had but we didn’t help ourselves. 

So far head contact has resulted in a yellow upgraded to red, a yellow not upgraded, and sweet fanny Adams.   Rugby sometimes dies not help itself. 

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2 minutes ago, Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo said:

The ITV review chronology has messed with my brain.

It’s fair to say we’re allowed to moan at the ref when it’s so fundamental to how the game panned out.

How dare you. What the ref and S7C says goes

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1 minute ago, Savage Henry said:

So far head contact has resulted in a yellow upgraded to red, a yellow not upgraded, and sweet fanny Adams.   Rugby sometimes dies not help itself. 

There is a real issue in international rugby of inconsistent refereeing.  I wouldn't mind if there were different standards applied during games - so long as those standards are applied consistently to both sides - but far too often that isn't the case.  It's not always us that's been hurt by it as well - we've been the beneficiary of some awful refereeing in the past against smaller teams.

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2 minutes ago, Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo said:

The ITV review chronology has messed with my brain.

It’s fair to say we’re allowed to moan at the ref when it’s so fundamental to how the game panned out.

You’re allowed to moan but have you considered stoicism and keepin a stiff upper lip instead?

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I’m utterly deflated after that one. I mean there are positives. We stayed in the game and I think we were defensively fine. Both tries were ruthless. The scrum also did better than I thought it would tie the majority of the match. 

We just didn’t have enough in attack. Each time we had an opportunity it lasted seconds rather than minutes. Losing 5 or however many it was attacking line outs was criminal. Just as you think that particular Achilles heel is fixed. It’s been a while since we haven’t scored a try in a match.
 

It was always going to be a tough ask for us to go through but at least we didn’t lose a bonus point. Do we hope for Ireland to beat SA with a bonus point so they’re already through when we play them? 

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It was hard, it was frustrating, that's what playing SA is. We put them in a game though, and I think we were better than people will give us credit for right now, but I think we saw the winners of this tournament today. The refereeing team were a major factor wether the usual wee guys like it or not, it wasn't just the red card, there were several other incidents as the game went on where we were playing to different rules, but all in all we put them in a game, we were ok.

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