Match thread

Bones

Looks like a red for Tui now too...

Duluth

Has to be

More of a red than the first one

Duluth

No balls

Found an excuse not to give it

Bones

@duluth that is a fucked decision. Looks like NZ have a ref of Rasta's calibre.

Stargazer

Very lucky to be only yellow. Only because the Rebels' player's shoulder and arm hit the ground first. Many other refs would have given red.

Tim

Yeah, NH ref gives that every day.

Bones

I'm more amazed Genia managed to avoid severe injury there, he's a sneaky fucker.

Tim

Good lord the Rebels are bad. Cut them too.

Sapetyvi

What was the red for?

MajorStokes

HIggenbotham shoulder charged to head. SBW style, except the guy was much higher.

I'm ok with the second one just being yellow. Argument for red for sure, but Genia was fine, and didn't land head first.

Stargazer

The ball handling in this game is dreadful.

NTA

And then the head lock after. What a fuckwit

booboo

I'm thinking collision. Yellow for me.

Sapetyvi

@booboo Stupid play but would have given yellow too

ACT Crusader

Poor handling from both sides, but it’s a pretty humid and hot in Melbs tonight. But the defence was schoolboy. Most of the fries were unopposed training run stuff - and that was both sides.

The YC should’ve been red IMO.

Gunner

Can’t believe what the game is coming to. That was not bad enough to warrant a red card by any stretch of the imagination.

NTA

@gunner said in Rebels vs. Reds:

Can’t believe what the game is coming to. That was not bad enough to warrant a red card by any stretch of the imagination.

I saw the front on view and can see why. In the twitter version above, Higgers only appears for effectively a couple of frames.

In the angle from behind the Rebels player, he's got a few metres to run in, never even looked like lifting his left arm or lowering himself into contact. Philp wasn't falling at all. It was the sort of stupid idiocy we've come to expect from Higgers, though Queenslanders won't hear a word against him.

Stargazer

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