Amazing that Shaun was in the Grammar 1st XV with Reiko, and it's taken him all this time to make his mark, them being the same age. Good on him for sticking local, cos it's the key to big bucks down the line.

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"Foul play ignored by the referee which paved the way for the result-stealing try" is simply not correct. The referee reviewed the incident with the TMO (having also been in a better place than the tv cameras to judge it in real time) and concluded that it was a fair contest for the ball. That is a reasonable call: the two players jumped at the same time, and collided on the path the ball was following. Van Rensburg got to it fractionally earlier, but there wasn't much in it. The communication of the decision could perhaps have been clearer, but on the basis of the facts they considered it was not foul play. In the current climate, with referees experiencing mental health issues or receiving death threats as a result of criticism by coaches, commentary like this isn't just inaccurate, it is potentially dangerous. If there were a framework for evaluating bad reporting, this would be at least a yellow card with very limited mitigation.

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