Rugby Referee Analysis: Luke Pearce | Springboks vs All Blacks Rugby Championship 2022 скачать в хорошем качестве

Rugby Referee Analysis: Luke Pearce | Springboks vs All Blacks Rugby Championship 2022

It blows my mind that people think Luke Pearce had a good performance as ref. The main issue that I come across is that people think this was an excuse for the boks losing the game. When any fan who watched that game, saw how they All Blacks dominated is physically and won that game despite the ref. In fact, the ref made some horrible calls towards them at the breakdown and the scrum. So the ref was not the reason the boks lost, by now most fans seem to agree the loss is on poor team selection and bad execution of our gameplan. In saying that, it boggles my mind that we're not allowed to debate the bad performance of Luke Pearce. Why is that the case? He was bad, it's as simple is that. He was very inconsistent and had no control of the game. There were also quite a few incidents where stuff happened in front of him but he had to get help from the AR to make a decision. Such as the Jasper Wiese Cheapshot on Aaron Smith that was late and happened in front of him. Initially he wanted to just play on, until the AR stepped in and then he went to the TMO. The other case was the Barrett Yellow card. Initially he just said play on, when it happened in front of him. It was a clear cynical foul that he almost just ignored. Luckily the AR stepped in and they went to the TMO and eventually made the correct call. Then there was the disallowed try of Mapimpi where the block happens in front of him but he doesn't spot it. So the on field decision is try until the AR steps in to correct the decision. What bothers me about this is that there were 2 other incidents were the same type of blocking happened in front of the AR (In these incidents the AR is to blame, not Luke Pearce), but they somehow don't see it. These 2 incidents were cases where South Africa could've scored and in one of those the All Blacks end up scoring. To be fair, these blocks happen often in rugby. It's dark arts that the All Blacks are very good at. If you don't get caught, it's genius. So I would not have had an issue if they let the Hendrikse block slide because that happens a lot. My issue is that they call the try back. But in the game the same type of blocking happens, but it gets ignored. We can't have that. Either blow penalty consistently, or remove the law from rugby. You can't pick and choose what to see.