Reds
Hamish Stewart, Jock Campbell, Chris Feauai-Sautia, Samu Kerevi (c), Sefa Naivalu, Bryce Hegarty, Tate McDermott, Scott Higginbotham, Liam Wright, Angus Scott-Young, Lukhan Salakaia-Loto, Izack Rodda, Taniela Tupou, Alex Mafi, Harry Hoopert
Reserves: Brandon Paenga-Amosa, JP Smith, Ruan Smith, Harry Hockings, Adam Korczyk, Moses Sorovi, Duncan Paia’aua, Seb

Sunwolves
Ryohei Yamanaka, Gerhard van den Heever, Jason Emery, Phil Burleigh, Semisi Masirewa, Hayden Parker, Keito Shigeno, Rahboni Warren-Vosayaco, Kara Pryor, Hendrik Tui, Luke Thompson (c), Grant Hattingh, Hiroshi Yamashita, Shota Horie, Masataka Mikami
Reserves: Nathan Vella, Pauliasi Manu, Takuma Asahara, Tom Rowe, Ben Gunter, Jamie Booth, Yu Tamura, Jamie Henry

The Sunwolves need this to have realistic chance of avoiding the wooden spoon

Great scrum from Pauliasi Manu

That was gold - ironically the Sunwolves prop getting binned improved the Sunwolves scrum with Manu coming on!

That should not be a yellow.

Geezus. Too harsh. 2nd yellow, so red for Masirewa.

That ruined the game. I'm going to watch something else.

@Stargazer yes I wonder if the Aussie ref would have red carded a Reds player

Two pretty soft yellows for Masirewa. Looks to me like first contact was more upper chest than neck. I thought he might get away with that. Hard to see Sunwolves winning now whereas they were a good chance without the cards.

Phil Burleigh stay in Japan Canterbury does not need you back for M10

@Chris Yes you do

@African-Monkey Noooooooooooooo

Why is a player getting yellow card for holding? That is never a yellow card.

He has just blamed the Sunwolves played for getting a boot in the head. Holding a player off the ball is never a yellow card in any other situation. Now every player who holds off the ball is going to get a yellow?

Yeah strange decision from Gardiner there.

Gardner has lost control of this game

After watching the refs in the 2 games tonight
Fuck knows what will happen in Saturday’s games
Dreadful from both Refs

Cripple fight.

@Chris said in Reds vs Sunwolves:

After watching the refs in the 2 games tonight
Fuck knows what will happen in Saturday’s games
Dreadful from both Refs

I have confidence in Rasta not disappointing us if he maintains his usual standard.

Gardiner is normally much better than that but that was a shocker from him.

@Higgins Oh yeah that's going to be Fun watching that game toss of a coin on every decision

@hydro11 said in Reds vs Sunwolves:

Holding a player off the ball is never a yellow card in any other situation

Precedent was set last week when Holloway thumped that big unit

@Higgins said in Reds vs Sunwolves:

@Chris said in Reds vs Sunwolves:

After watching the refs in the 2 games tonight
Fuck knows what will happen in Saturday’s games
Dreadful from both Refs

I have confidence in Rasta not disappointing us if he maintains his usual standard.

I’ve written some fairly harsh things about his reffing but I’d say credit where it’s due this year as he has improved.

@MajorRage He couldn't have gotten any worse though