Quote Originally Posted by dimelb View Post
Maybe a message was sent anyway - does anyone know how many frees there were for htb? Very few I thought. And the game was the better for it.
Yep, the umpiring was actually very, very good. A couple of times I thought, "oh god, he shouldn't be, but he's about to be pinged" before the umpire blew the whistle and crossed his arms for a ball up. I was pleasantly suprised. From memory there was only a ROK HTB decision which I had a problem with (after a mark not being called for not being long enough, usually they give the benefit of the doubt to a player tackled in that situation).