Disappointed the Vodacom Bulls left points on the field in the Vodacom United Rugby Championship final, Jake White has implied the officiating cost the visitors a realistic shot at the title.
Disappointed the Vodacom Bulls left points on the field in the Vodacom United Rugby Championship final, Jake White implied the officiating cost the visitors a realistic shot at the title.Referee Andrew Brace was on the whistle in the inaugural URC final on Saturday as the Bulls let a seven-point second-half lead slip in an 18-13 defeat to the Stormers.
“It is what it is. I didn’t think we were ever going to win that game,” said White. “I thought the ref was outstanding, he saw what he saw. I couldn’t control the other things. There are other controllables which we couldn’t control. You guys can work it out yourselves. I’m not going to get into it. The ref only saw what he saw. At the end of the day, it’s all you want a ref to do, is see what he sees.
“You don’t want to sound like whinger and I have to teach my players to be humble when we lose. There were a couple of times they went for the ball, they missed it, they came back and got it again and got rewarded. Now that’s fine and if the referee sees that, that’s great. “We had our chances and from a rugby point of view I can’t complain. We needed to finish those things off and we didn’t.”
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