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Points: 461 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote PlangentThrowback Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 May 2012 at 12:53
I think the reason the Helu incident annoys Bristol supporters is that we've had guys yellow carded for exactly the same offence.  In fact the one that springs quickest to mind is when our guy, at full pelt realised he wouldn't get to the ball in time, didn't challenge and tried as hard as possible to get out of the way.  The oppo landed on our players back and then went to ground.  I don't think that was even a penalty, certainly not yellow.  Thats how the ref seems to have seen it on Monday, but where is the consistency?
 
The scrum decision was ludicrously wrong, as was the bouncing pass as being forward.  However the Pirates drive at the end totally smashed the Bristol pack.  Not lost because of the ref, but the margin probably was influenced.  And the pass to Tovey?  Couldn't see from my angle, but the crowd over that side didn't call it and most crowds will cry "forward" at the slightest opportunity in my experience.
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Originally posted by Guinness John Guinness John wrote:

Let's just hope they swap the referees over for the second legs, I 'd have J P on that performance no problem.
 
The Pirates v Bristol game was super to watch as a neutral, what an advert for the Championship, surely a sponsor can't be far away now. The injuries hit Bristol, and with the short turn round will probably mean key men are out of the second game. That said Pirates team spirit and flair won it.
 
The first try scored in either game on Sunday will have a huge bearing on the outcome, good luck to all. 
 
I can't see a sponsor wanting to get involved with a league where no-one knows how to win the prize of promotion, and most of the contestants admit they can't.
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Originally posted by Trojan Pirate Trojan Pirate wrote:

An important fact that has been  perhaps overlooked by some some is that nearly all Bristols replacements were enforced through injury and were not tactical ( only one injury on the Pirates side), so by the time it got to the business end of the game the only team to bring on fresh legs had we wanted to were the Pirates.

However good the Pirates win was we had the rub of the green in several ways and cannot expect the same on Sunday.

The team that gets go forward ball with a Premiership ref will win
 
we still had two on the bench at the end, so could have replaced a scrum half & a prop.
but yeah, have been impressed with the attitude of the players & staff since the game
this is why events unnerve me
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Elegia, Matty James & Mark Lilley came on very late in the game.
 
Lilley was in the dying moments, and James probably 10 mins before the end.
 
Still left Channon & Slater(?) on the bench though.
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So a prop & a scrum half left like I said then?
this is why events unnerve me
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