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| − | + | I will add, however, that this ranks as the worst one-way, biased officiating of one of our matches I ever witnessed, with the possible exception of the United Services match in Portsmouth, England on the 1986 tour, when the ref walked the USCS back four consecutive ten meter penalties in a row for “Not back ten” at the end of the match that put the United Services team with an easy chip shot for a PK that put them ahead, followed by the final whistle. Here referee Kevin Maloney, thank god he spells his name with a Y, showed bias all match, calling us for knock-ons that went back toward the goal we defended, calling us back to award us a scrum rather than allow us to continue play with an advantage when we were clearly on the run toward a sure try, continuously penalizing us for offenses that merited only a word to the Aussies not to do the same thing we were being penalized for, and then allowing injury time to go a full ten minutes at the end of the match, despite there having been no more than four at the most required. This ten minutes of injury time play all took place within ten meters or less of our goal line. This piece of horrific officiating was overcome by maybe the best defense work I have ever seen by the USCS, as we not only kept them out of our in-goal for the ten minutes, or at least did not allow them a grounding of the ball in our in-goal, but gave up no penalties and stopped everyone one of the numerous five-meter scrums after they continuously were held up in goal. In the end, we finally were able to steal the ball and kick for touch, ending the match. | |
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I will add, however, that this ranks as the worst one-way, biased officiating of one of our matches I ever witnessed, with the possible exception of the United Services match in Portsmouth, England on the 1986 tour, when the ref walked the USCS back four consecutive ten meter penalties in a row for “Not back ten” at the end of the match that put the United Services team with an easy chip shot for a PK that put them ahead, followed by the final whistle. Here referee Kevin Maloney, thank god he spells his name with a Y, showed bias all match, calling us for knock-ons that went back toward the goal we defended, calling us back to award us a scrum rather than allow us to continue play with an advantage when we were clearly on the run toward a sure try, continuously penalizing us for offenses that merited only a word to the Aussies not to do the same thing we were being penalized for, and then allowing injury time to go a full ten minutes at the end of the match, despite there having been no more than four at the most required. This ten minutes of injury time play all took place within ten meters or less of our goal line. This piece of horrific officiating was overcome by maybe the best defense work I have ever seen by the USCS, as we not only kept them out of our in-goal for the ten minutes, or at least did not allow them a grounding of the ball in our in-goal, but gave up no penalties and stopped everyone one of the numerous five-meter scrums after they continuously were held up in goal. In the end, we finally were able to steal the ball and kick for touch, ending the match.
