Matty Burke, Morgan Turinui and another who was the main Stan Sport commentator for the Brumbies vs Crusaders last match of the round robin were almost in tears after James Dolan and the two assistants “missed” a “clear knock on” by Sevu Reece in the lead up to replacement Crusader hooker George Bell pealed off a driving maul to score the match winner with a minute and a half to full time.

Yes it could have been rewarded with a scrum but come on people just how many clearances by a half back in slow mo would or could be also ruled similarly.
With the ball on the ground and possibly already in motion placing two hands to the ball prior to delivering a pass it is and can be clearly shown to be a technical “knock forward’. Similarly for the actual “Try” in “downward pressure” Slow motion” often indicates such irregularity.

Now to a more disturbing to me, blight on the Breakdown that is more than a little annoying involves “A Clean Out” where a player taking out an opposition player not connected to the “ruck” can not just be a removal of threat well beyond the ball but then can often continue to hold the player to prevent any chance of joining what has developed into a key competition for possession. To witness say Ardie Savea a well developed “Fetcher”
Also never resolved, in the Canberra battle for second loser in the round robin, a new innovation to disrupt the Scrum setting, already a true drama, comes with one person of the two packs involved calling out “Set” just before the ring master gets to believe things are ready and calls it out, in attempting a false start and a subsequent penalty.

A true blessing with the Chiefs then the Blues and finally the Hurricanes all winning by margins that precluded the unedifying whinge situation from Canberra.