Nonsense.....Poite is a top ref and we know his style. He’ll have moved on since the QF. I’m with Baggy this is a good selection for us. Johann is always appropriately deferent to refs and our best French friend will like that.ruckover wrote:Poite could be bad, especially with the scrum. TC or whoever is playing front row will have to be very strong there or we're sunk. Probably will be kicking himself over the Afoa incident as well, we must be well disciplined.
Surprised Owens isn't reffing the other game. Wasn't Barnes supposed to be demoted?
Refs for HEC Semis
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Oh please no. Oh please, no!MACKTHEKNIFE wrote:If its an Ulster- Leinster final then a MR G.Clancy MAR will be officiating, an neutral Irish Ref for an Irish Final.
I agree that Poite is a top ref, I have always said that. But for this game he could be bad because of the way he refs the scrum. IMO it is the weakest point of his 'game' and due to the way he does ref it, our scrum could come under a lot of pressure next week.Snipe Watson wrote:Nonsense.....Poite is a top ref and we know his style. He’ll have moved on since the QF. I’m with Baggy this is a good selection for us. Johann is always appropriately deferent to refs and our best French friend will like that.ruckover wrote:Poite could be bad, especially with the scrum. TC or whoever is playing front row will have to be very strong there or we're sunk. Probably will be kicking himself over the Afoa incident as well, we must be well disciplined.
Surprised Owens isn't reffing the other game. Wasn't Barnes supposed to be demoted?
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Always have said Poite is an excellent referee even when others didn't. He does miss a few things though like Andy Trimble's second try (I think) v Leicester when Wannenburg and Terblanche came right in from the side in the build. Apart from the odd thing like that I think he refs the breakdown well and is pretty decent with the scrums. Him, Owens and Joubert are the best three in my opinion.
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Howz that then?ruckover wrote:because of the way he refs the scrum.
Well I would say...........