Pretty weak defence by Elliot Dixon
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Terrible forward pass missed in the phase beforehand?
But, flat out terrible effort by Elliot there. Holy fuck that was weak
Aaron Smith should stop trying to make those fancy behind-his-back passes. He did the same in one of the previous games and that one also went forward.
@Bovidae said in Highlanders v Waratahs:
That was a poor TMO decision.
What is the point of TMOs.
Wasted several minutes of our lives for a plain wrong decision. Wasn't even a hard one.
I'd be perfectly ok with the ref missing that in real time, and we just got in with it.
In looking whether Buckman was offside, which part of Luke Whitelock's body should they have looked at? Whitelock's left arm was stretched forward, so arguably his hand was in front of Buckman's foot. In that case, the TMO's decison was correct. But if they can only look at Whitelock's feet, there's room for doubt. There was no good camera angle though.
@Stargazer said in Highlanders v Waratahs:
In looking whether Buckman was offside, which part of Luke Whitelock's body should they have looked at? Whitelock's left arm was stretched forward, so arguably his hand was in front of Buckman's foot. In that case, the TMO's decison was correct. But if they can only look at Whitelock's feet, there's room for doubt. There was no good camera angle though.
ball is the offside line, isn't it?
Highlander's have been looking a bit out of ideas - bombs towards Folau are a pretty low percentage play, but they don't have much else other than passing it to B Smith and making meters
Shut up gt12, they've got a scrum 
Pretty poor take their from the landers - gives Tahs a good chance for points.
@Damo said in Highlanders v Waratahs:
Strange call against Naholo. Correct but you never see that called.
Well, it's hurt them.
Bad drop by Smith and then drops off the tackle too.
They need to get Lima on. Banks is no threat to run, Tahs arent committing to the breakdown so need some inside running to be kept in check.
Tahs have played well.
Ben Smith WTF, dropped ball under the sticks then a poor missed tackle.
Getting his annual quota of errors over and done with in 30 seconds there...
The funny thing about the Oz teams is that they have plenty of talent - especially the Tahs - and with a bit of ball they can do good things. When Foley and Folau are going well with front foot ball, they look a different team to their recent shitness.
The Landers have just been unable to take advantage of opportunities - they had plenty of ball, but dropped it both times they had the Tahs under pressure. They're lucky to be one point back IMO.