Rugby Referee Analysis: Nikola Amashukeli | South Africa vs Ireland Autumn Series 2022

The title says is it all to be honest, I've never seen a referee be as one sided as this game. I was absolutely dumbfounded after watching the South Africa vs Ireland game, it was supposed to be a massive clash between two giants of the game, yet all we got was the referee making mistake after mistake after mistake. Also conveniently all those mistakes happened to go against the Springboks, the ref simply ignored anything that Ireland did wrong.

Where to start? How about Ireland's first try, let's look back a few moments before that. Kolbe goes for an up and under, which South Africa regathers when Pieter-Steph Du Toit takes it, and loses it backwards, yet the ref somehow says that South Africa lost it forward, so he gives scrum to Ireland. SO let's go to the scrum, they have the feed. The springboks pressures their scrum, their scrumhalf is under massive pressure and in the process of trying to pass, Jaden Hendrikse hits his arm and he knocks the ball on. Yet, the ref somehow says Hendrikse lost it forward. So Ireland gets the the scrum again, the get the feed. Immediately after the feed, their Tight head collapses the ball, his head hits the ground immediately, while Steven Kitshoff is still up because he did nothing wrong. Yet, the ref somehow makes up a penalty and says Kitshoff went down, despite the evidence completely contradicting what the ref saw. So 3 crucial mistakes in quick succession, surely it can't get worse, but it does. Ireland gets the Lineout, off the lineout the ball goes to Sexton, who gives a massive forward pass when he got hit by Jesse Kriel, the ref just ignores it. They then go on to get another penalty which leads to their first try. So 4 crucial mistakes by the ref, all against the Springboks, gives Ireland a free try.

Then later in the game the following happens. Ireland kicks the ball, Damian Willemse regathers it, he gets tackles. Ireland now tries to counter ruck with their hooker, Dan Sheehan, who then puts his boot out and kicks the ball out of the ruck. Ireland then regathers, and goes on the counter attack. The ball goes to their prop, Andrew Porter, who gives a questionable pass that looked forward, to Finlay Bealham, who passes it to the backline. This whole move ends up in Ireland scoring their 2nd try by the likes of Mack Hansen. The ref then asks the TMO to just check if they didn't go in touch when they turned the ball over at the ruck. He completely ignores the ball being kicked out or the potential forward pass.

Then the ref's inconstancy truly showed it's colors at the end of the game. Franco Mostert makes tackle, he then gets up to start counter rucking, while counter rucking, he kicks the ball out the exact same way as Dan Sheehan. Eben Etzebeth picks the ball up with nobody in front of him and support players to the right of him. Yet, the ref penalizes Franco Mostert for kicking the ball out. So how on earth can the ref defend his decision if he complete ignored it when Ireland did it? How is it possible for an international referee to be this one sided in a massive game like this?

Dear World Rugby, You should be embarrassed by the performances of Nikola Amashukeli, Stuart Terheege and Andrea Piardi. The only one who remotely deserves any praise is the one French AR, Mathieu Raynal.

[davidanderson]

Just keep this in mind.
You get to carry out an autopsy on every piece of action - slow it down; focus on the small part of the action you want to look at; watch it from several angles, and you get to do this over and over until you reach your conclusion (and in your case, usually the conclusion *you want* to reach). However, the referee only gets one look, from one angle, in real time and with no second chance. There are reasons why the referee might not see an infringement such as the ball being kicked out of a ruck or a forward pass.

- he may have glanced away to look at the dozen other things he has to watch for at the breakdown.
- a player may have momentarily blocked his view at the wrong moment.
- he could have blinked at the wrong moment.

[McMassive]

I love the saltiness of these guys, best comedy channel on YouTube. They have to zoom in to show the mistake made by the reff and wonder how it was missed in live play. Give yourself one on the chin and stop trying to bring the game of Rugby union down. I'd say you must be league lovers but you wouldn't know how to use a computer in the first place so my conclusion can only be that you're a bunch of lads who love their salt 🤣🤣

The only people who love their salt more are the ones commenting here.

[GayGuy]

Would have been a great video if showed the ref mistakes for both teams

[FullTimeThistle]

Decisions like this happen all the time against every side, your channel paints it as if South Africa are the only victim - I think missing the odd forward pass and occasionally missing a defending players boot dislodging the ball from a melee of a ruck are excusable and always going to happen unless you want to sterilise and slow down the game even more with endless microscopic TMO intervention - it's already killing the spectacle. You lost because you shanked about 9 points from the boot and couldn't routinely unlock the Irish defence. Stop being salty!

[brianmurray]

You could make a similar video from an Irish perspective..and in that Colby would have been red carded, SA offside all day and wheeling the scrum and late hits

[leeroylita]

Clear forward pass from Sexton. But a clear high tackle on POM just before that, also missed by the ref.

[IBB]

Love watching this guy's videos after SA lose, so much salt in all of them you could soften water! 😂😂😂

[kdmc]

When can we expect an upload on the poisoning of the AB, s in 95 which led to SA "winning" the WC? Or the latest poisoning of Munster and Glasgow in SA?😂

[xpat]

Kolbe once again gets a pass on a red card because he is a star.

[amatmc]

Love coming to this channel to see the salt flowing 😂

[JohnOwens]

i see you didnt mention the bok full back that should have see straight red in the first half for a blatant spear tackle

[cathalmurphy]

It's only a crime if you are caught. We've been on the receiving end of those kind of decisions often enough.

[Irish]

The referee the forward pass the high grass the wind the noise the temperature. But not the players oh no 😂 😂 😂

[Owennwastaken]

Always the victims, it’s never your fault

[brokenglasses]

I just watched the entire match again forensically, and it's remarkable how the OPs glaring injustices are totally invisible in the heat of real time play, no referee or player reaction, no comment from the pundits and commentator. Then I realised, he's watching a different game. In slow motion, with zoomed marquees, and highlight pens. And he's watching it in 2 dimensions on a screen. He conveniently moves to ×10 speed in his 'this... led to this' associations in order to compress the action in between, as if somehow a debatable missed knock on was the direct cause of a score 25 phases later. It's all smoke and mirrors, and he's a sour grapes loser in the absolute sense. Keep eating those grapes in highlighted slow-mo zoomed-in 2D land. They're much sweeter in the Real World.

[tsumner]

Good work as always boet, assume no mistakes in boks favour again this week?

[kgkg-nkrd]

Are you gonna analyse cheslin kolbe dangerous tackle while you're at it?

[mickser]

Missed the double spear tackle. I'm shocked typical Saffer

[roboconnor]

I’ll sum up the vast majority of the video: the ref/officials missed something and rugby was consequently played how awful

[AliAbdelaterrorist]

You should've put in when Etzebeth knocked it forward from the lineout also bad miss by the ref.