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DMP 10-21 Sale

Rosslyn Park 31. PARFC 29

Edited by plymouthalbion15 - 25 Mar 2023 at 16:27

DMP 10-28 Sale

Mose 29 Leeds 21. Bonus point try for Moseley.

Full time: Moseley 29 (4t) Leeds 21 (3t)

Rosslyn Park 41 PARFC 32

Edited by plymouthalbion15 - 25 Mar 2023 at 16:48

A deserve victory for Cambridge today, although Chinnor will probably be kicking themselves for not taking advantage of the elements in the second half. Too often they butchered their attacking line-outs, and the Cambridge back-row achieved a tremendous number of turnovers. That is probably why they are third, and Chinnor are in the bottom third !

Indeed, it took a length of the field interception try for Chinnor to claim the losing bonus point as Cambridge strove for the try bonus point.

Before the game I thought the score would be something like 45-40 to Cambridge, but the weather made it an attritional contest !

A full review is attached for anyone interest

https://fatbearssportingdiaries.blogspot.com/2023/03/chinnor-17-19-cambridge-att-450-est.html

I know that it is considered poor form and not the done thing to moan about the officials, especially after tasting defeat.

Therefore, it must be stated from the outset that Sale deserved the win, as once again, against the same opposition, DMPRFC's second half showing didn't cut the mustard.

However, DMPRFC didn't deserve to be short-changed by a poor referee, who was constantly 'old-manned' by Sale, who were annoyingly offside and unpunished for it all day long.

3 DMPRFC yellow cards were harsh, especially when 2 Sale players should have received the same fate.

Sour grapes and all that malarkey accepted, but Sale didn't require or deserve the leg up the they got.

(And don't get me started on the Sale try under the posts, when the Sale player slid in from 5-metres out, forgetting to keep hold of it when crossing the line. Joke.)

Anyway.

Tea-break over, back on me ed !!

AuntyM wrote:

I know that it is considered poor form and not the done thing to moan about the officials, especially after tasting defeat.

Therefore, it must be stated from the outset that Sale deserved the win, as once again, against the same opposition, DMPRFC's second half showing didn't cut the mustard.

However, DMPRFC didn't deserve to be short-changed by a poor referee, who was constantly 'old-manned' by Sale, who were annoyingly offside and unpunished for it all day long.

3 DMPRFC yellow cards were harsh, especially when 2 Sale players should have received the same fate.

Sour grapes and all that malarkey accepted, but Sale didn't require or deserve the leg up the they got.

(And don't get me started on the Sale try under the posts, when the Sale player slid in from 5-metres out, forgetting to keep hold of it when crossing the line. Joke.)

Anyway.

Tea-break over, back on me ed !!

You aren't the only one with these sentiments.

Sale deserved the win – their physicality really told in the last quarter – but they definitely had the rub of the green in terms of officiating.

I thought their defensive line was persistently offside, but never penalised for this, Andy Hughes clearly went to slide in and lost the ball forward from a metre out (you can see this on the highlights video), and infringements for which Mowden players were sent to the sin bin were only deemed penalty offences when Sale players were deemed guilty.

It's impossible to have a feeling of sour grapes and 'what if' when the opposition were much more physical and clinical, but those simple refereeing errors are still irksome.

As well as the video, there is a match report on the DMP website.

tigerburnie wrote:

There's a lot of discussion on most rugby forums about the officials and the lack of consistency, most blaming the officials and their "interpretation of the laws". I wonder if the fault lies in the vagaries of the laws in that they should be more concise and less open to said interpretation?

Surely the laws have always been subject to interpretation on the basis that if a referee blew his whistle every time one side contravened one of the laws the game would be almost continually stopped.

Whether they could be made simpler without radically changing the game is another matter of course.