Bryce allowed far too much leniency + infringements and pocock rightfully used it to its fullest. truely Sad that Brussouw got injured so soon. Certain he would have been told to apply the same stretch of the laws too and that may well have forced Bryce to police it in the manner it should have been policed to avoid BOTH teams stealing attacking balls left right and centre the whole match.
What is this about anyways... the refs telling a player he's off sides and must move back. Blow the bastard up for it I say, he's infringing and causing the attacking team to cancel out a move beacuse the guy - in his current position - will stop the move. FFS
Bottom line - I guess most people will be in agreement that the Boks were robbed by a shocker from Bryce Lawrence. Lest not forget his shocker and his abysmal performance in the Super Rugby qualifier between the Crusaders and Sharks in Nelson earlier this year. Honestly did not have any rights to be anywhere near this tournament.
To say that the Boks were completely blameless for the defeat would be incorrect for they did botch a lot of chances and had enough of the game to win despite Lawrence’s peculiar blowing of the breakdown.
