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Just want to know from both sets what did they make of our good pal Poite today?
Shambolic performance.
Just want to know from both sets what did they make of our good pal Poite today?
Shambolic performance.
Agreed, really ruined the last 10 minutes with that yellow. I suspect that Ospreys would have scored a try off that scrum and made the finish even better.
The whole farce with the scrummaging at the end of the first half really was shocking. I really am getting fed up on the men in the middle taken my time up talking about them.
Just want to know from both sets what did they make of our good pal Poite today?
Agree errors balanced out and on Whites sinbin (which was a turning point) I'm no scrum expert but it seemed the O's prop took White down and possibly the pen should've been opposite wayNot a great performance from Poite at all. Thought Ospreys should have had a penalty try at the end of the first half, White shouldn't have been binned and there was a key forward pass in the run up to Williams' game winning try. He made plenty of mistakes but they balanced each other out!
Well, that was alright like!
It's because he's recently bought the new "Excited cyRil to English translator" and it's working overtime.Well, that's not what I was expecting!
Just simply because we have always had a problem with him here in Munster and we always seem to get him but today he showed he is an awful ref and in my opinion should never have been given this game. If an Irish or Welsh ref was deemed unsuitable then fine a ref from England should've been drafted in because at least the English ref's see the game in a more similar way but the refs in France see things differently and well this added with Poite being a joke anyway made it frustrating at times
Agree errors balanced out and on Whites sinbin (which was a turning point) I'm no scrum expert but it seemed the O's prop took White down and possibly the pen should've been opposite way
Poite didn't ref the HEC final and well just my opinion so anytime I see him I am disappointed in his performances. The up and coming French ref I think is Garçons (name might be wrong) but he is has great grasp of all areas.
Poite just doesn't ref a lot of areas. HEC QF Munster vs Ulster. (Ulster deserved win) but he never reffed the offside there and Ulster made hay and well he was poor in scrum and breakdown. This was case for a few top 14 games I've seen too. He just isn't up to it in my eyes and it's scary that him and Berdos got to such a high level. Joel Jutge was last top class French ref
The offside thing is interesting, Ospreys effectively lived offside all day yesterday. I don't think a single penalty was given for it either.
To add to that referees are told the offsides are a key area to tackle at the beginning of the. Most referee will within the first 10 minute give an offside penalty just to give some clarity and stamp some authority over that area.The offside thing is interesting, Ospreys effectively lived offside all day yesterday. I don't think a single penalty was given for it either.
Which begs another question, why not have an additional referee in top level games whose sole responsibility is to watch for offside? Assistant referees/touch judges don't help at all and referees have too hard a job refereeing the breakdown to concentrate on defensive positioning.To add to that referees are told the offsides are a key area to tackle at the beginning of the. Most referee will within the first 10 minute give an offside penalty just to give some clarity and stamp some authority over that area.