RaboDirect Pro 12 Final - Leinster vs Ospreys - 27/05/2012

[dullonien]

FFs. Where were the Ospreys defenders. Ospreys are handing this game to Leinster!

 

[Feicarsinn]

Glaringly forward pass there.

 

[big ginger 8]

I leave my computer to do a set of sit-ups with Ospreys about to kick. I return to find Nacewa's scored. Wtf?

Ospreys got the kick. From the kickoff Sexton kicks to Nacewa who runs it in.

Poor by Dirksen then - misjudged where the kick was going and Nacewa could just waltz in

It looked like Dirksen didn't want to challenge for it.

 

[big ginger 8]

Poite has some issues. Now Gwan Jack.

 

[Feicarsinn]

Just give the bloody try ffs.

 

[Jockstap]

Me thinks Thorn will be on soon to give some power to the scrum.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Bloody hell, this has been going on for ages.

and then Leinster get a penalty - mad.

 

[big ginger 8]

Ooh ah Jack McGrath, I say ooh ah Jack McGrath.

 

[Feicarsinn]

Hmm, wouldn't mind seeing a replay of that. Ospreys will be seething.

 

[killer08]

that was hilarious

 

[dullonien]

F****king joke!!!!!!!! W****ker!!

 

[dullonien]

How can you give 5 penalties, not give a penalty try, eat into over 3 mins of the 10min yellow card, then give a penalty to Leinster. Complete joke, and he's spoilt this game!

 

[big ginger 8]

Jones was starting to get very cocky vs McGrath and was twisting to early so fell over.

Bit of a scrap going on.

Btw though usually don't agree with what Poite does you can't give a penalty try without the team having the forward momentum which makes a try inevitable.

 

[Draggs]

How can you give 5 penalties, not give a penalty try, eat into over 3 mins of the 10min yellow card, then give a penalty to Leinster. Complete joke, and he's spoilt this game!

Absolutely pathetic. Completely cowardly.

 

[j'nuh]

Anyone know why Poite said that he couldn't award a penalty try?

 

[Feicarsinn]

Anyone know why Poite said that he couldn't award a penalty try?

No forward momentum apparently.

 

[lucky number 7]

Leinster!!

 

[Draggs]

Anyone know why Poite said that he couldn't award a penalty try?

No, he only said that he could.
Five straight penalties. How is that not a penalty try?

 

[big ginger 8]

And there wasn't as the Ospreys weren't even putting the ball in.

No, he only said that he could.
Five straight penalties. How is that not a penalty try?

Definitely said he couldn't. He could have given twenty penalties but if the scrum doesn't look like it's going to result in a try he can't award a try.

 

[Feicarsinn]

No, he only said that he could.
Five straight penalties. How is that not a penalty try?

Nah, he said he could award another yellow card, but couldn't give a PT because the scrum wasn't going forward. He bottled it.


That said, Ospreys should have gone wide. Man over off a solid scrum 5m out. Should be meat and drink.