It is a shame because there have been some very good performances by the refs throughout the tournament until today.
Great game today, both sides played positive rugby

oh and who though Michael Cheika’s voice was going to sound like that?

Shouldn’t the TMO have drawn the refs attention to the late hit on Hogg?

a) I never thought Oz were utterly awesome. Beating England and sorry to say it Wales, does not make you an awesome team.
2) I dont mean that to take anything away from Scotland as they were pretty damn stunning.
z) gutted, robbed.

Tom Heathcoate had a really good game for the Warriors on Friday,three years ago we were so desperate that he was the saviour of the Scottish backs. That is a measure of what we have now,if we can cut out the stupid restart errors and the like,we may no longer be a joke in the 6N. We were the second best team today,the Aussie backs were fantastic, but we were the unflushable shite,they just couldn’t get rid of us.There is room for Cowan and Hardie in our back row and that much vaulted Aussie front row came second best. So as much as that was a sore one,look what angry Vern has done in a fairly short period of time.
One last point…The Aussie player will be cited for that hit on Hogg,won’t he?

Does no-one watch SH rugby?

The only things in Joubert’s favour were picking up Genia’s knock on and I thought he ran the breakdown better than Barnes and Owens where it seemed to be a free for all

Never cheered so hard for Scotland! Have to commended for yet again scoring a lot of points and keeping up tradition of interception tries 😀

I think the main problem was it was only really Lamont doing an “X-Factor” sign at the ref… and when was the last time you took Lamont seriously 😳 😀

Embarrassed to be a Saffa right now.

Meh Hogg likes dishing out late cheap shots got no sympathy for him.

Flash you are Solomon and I claim something

Let’s not forget Wales came close until the dying minutes too. There is just more expectation on (even an injury ravaged) Wales than Scotland.

Ireland got hammered by an “easy” team that many here were convinced would be a walkover but that’s not to say Ireland aren’t still a great side.

That logic of comparisons of different games doesn’t work. Scotland lost pretty easily to RSA who themselves were beaten by Japan. Are Scotland worse than Japan? It’s a tournament and all that matters is how far you progress.

I think most would say 3/4 of the Home Nations did us all proud, Scotland very much included in this

I didn’t claim we were brilliant or anything like that. I merely questioned the quoted comment – that Wales wouldn’t have turned up. You’re right though, we should have lost the game against England but whatever happened in that last 20 mins or so a lot seemed down to wanting it more. We couldn’t score against Australia when we should have – we lost to 5 Foley kicks and no tries whereas Scotland conceeded 5 tries. I thought we’d lose heavily yesterday so as gutted as I am we lost I was proud of our showings all things considered. Shouted for the Jocks today and genuinely gutted for them.

Interesting…some people think they’re only one or two tweaks from being world beaters!

Well I watched those games, and aus were the better team vs Wales. The saffas aren’t rilliant, and I’d bet on nz putting 40 on them, I honestly thought Wales would beat them. As it turned out, sa were the better team. I’m not rubbishing Wales, I just don’t see that they are much better than england (who aren’t very good).

Hey, it doesn’t matter does it. We’re all so proud of how we did. If I see another **** #shoulder2shoulder tweet after an abject loss to a side we’ve beaten 5 times in a row, I’ll…I dunno…I’ll tweet something angry. But I’m still proud.

**** sake…4 SH sides have just pissed into the QFs. England were a shambles. France were a shambles.

Am I proud? Am I ****. 😡

Matt Dawson is standing #shouldertoshoulder (with the Scots)

It does say quite a lot about the southern vs northern game doesn’t it? All the sh super 14 (is that right) teams are now contesting the last 4 places, come Feb when some bloody pundit states that the 6 nations is the tournament in the world, I hope he gets rotten fruit thrown at him.
Possibly the only way out of this is a Euopean league, although I in no way can see this happening in anything resembling my lifetime!
Ahh bugger. Still, at least Tigers won today!

Perhaps, but that just makes their performance today even more admirable.

“Rugby Championship” is the international tournamount with 4 SH teams, Super 15 is the SH club league 😀

You still have the issue of the game and often rules/ refereeing developing differently in the two hemispheres not to mention cultural strategy differences largely influenced by weather and pitch conditions I guess. Pitting more international European teams together in a league won’t change the style of rugby where windy stadiums and rain are the norm vs hard pitches, with often hotter weather and even altitude encouraging a huge kicking game.

😀

But those players are mostly cutting their teeth in the super 15 before moving on to the championship.

Oh, and NZ is often bloody wet, seems to not hamper them too much! Agree with the nh / sh refring styles though, seem to be quite different. Actually, it’s a stupid game if the refs style needs to be a pivotal part of your decisions on the pitch. I’m going to learn me to like Wendy ball.