This match wasn't a good game to watch... Wrong decision making by our young Captain, Poor kicking by our sharpshooter Morne Steyn and bad handling... 3 major things that cost the Bulls the game. oh well, back to the old drawing board... Congrats Blues, you showed that counter-attacks once again are a great weapon in winning games.
I have 2 questions I would like Smartcooky or someone with some knowledge could explain to me, who watched the game...
1st Question - The Braid Brothers made a lot of tackles which made them lie in the Bulls side of the scrum, they released the tackled person, but remained to lay there on the field which at some stages obstructed both the flow of play and also prevented the bulls players from coming into the ruck... Is that legal? if so, great ploy by them as that worked very well.
2nd Question - The Ranger incident... My question is: Steve Walsh told Pierre Spies that "Normally you would get a penalty on the half way line after the conversion, but because time is up, after the conversion, the penalty won't be given"... This I don't understand at all, in plenty of games, the refs will ALWAYS give a penalty even after time is up, why was this different?
I'm not angry about the game, My team's finishing was poor and the Blues did very well with the little ball they had. I just thought a lot about these 2 question I raised over the weekend and would appreciate if someone could tell me whether it was correct or not.
