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THE All Blacks generally get the rub of the green with referees. On Saturday night they were given Swedish deep-tissue of the green by Jaco Peyper.
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Peyper's performance in the opening half was diabolical, and the IRB should think about packing the South African off for a mid-winter holiday.
Australia may not be as good a side as New Zealand and whingeing about referees is generally a mug's game. Odds are the Kiwis still would have lifted the Bledisloe post-match.
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But for the second week in a row the Wallabies were denied the fair opportunity to potentially rumble the All Blacks by weak officials failing to do their jobs.
Beating the Kiwis requires everything going your way. You have to have work like mules, throw them off their rhythm and score tries when rare opportunities arise.
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Australia did the first two for the opening half-hour but couldn't crack the All Blacks' defence with Peyper refereeing as tough as a puppy in wet Kleenex.
New Zealand are masters of the cynical, and when under pressure in their half, they'll break the law to slow your momentum down or stop it entirely. After a linebreak, it's pretty much standard.
Attacking teams think about scoreboard pressure and take the consolatory goal. Another rare try opportunity evaporates.
Most teams around the world practise this dark art but if done too often, the attacking team should finally get reward by the infringers losing a man to the bin.
Except when it comes to the All Blacks. Referees are now simply unwilling to hold New Zealand to account, particularly on home soil. Ask the French.
Since the year 2000, New Zealand has been given 46 cards in 166 Tests. From two less Tests, South Africa has been given 77 in 164 games. Fair difference.
The only ref who consistently called the Kiwis on their tricks and binned Richie McCaw was Stu Dickinson, who ultimately paid for it by being shuffled out of the Test roster.
In Sydney two weeks ago, the Wallabies were stopped on attack and took five shots at goal in the first half. New Zealand didn't even get a warning. In Wellington, Peyper penalised the All Blacks six times for infringing in their 22. Warning? Yellow card? Nope and nope.
When Christian Lealiifano broke through the line and almost scored, Peyper could have binned two men; Aaron Smith for slowing the ball down, and Kieran Read for tackling the halfback from an offside position. Both killed chances of a try. Both players stayed on the field.
Peyper told McCaw he gave Smith "the benefit of the doubt" about his intent. Sure did.
When Horwill said to the whistleblower the deliberate try-kill tactics were the same as the All Blacks used "last week", Peyper said: "It's a different game now".
No Jaco, it's all from the same playbook and you were getting gamed.
Peyper's snap decision to not send Stephen Moore's earlier try to the TMO was also poor. It certainly didn't scream no-try, so a second view was not only fair, it was just.
After all of Australia's early dominance, a try could have seen the visitors push out to a double-digit lead and have a 14-man All Blacks side battling to stay in the contest. That's a whole new ballgame.
Instead, Australia was only up 6-0 after 30 minutes and as they do brilliantly, the Kiwis scored minutes after the Smith-Read debacle. They scored again, held a halftime lead and New Zealand exhaled.
Let's be clear, the Wallabies only have themselves to blame for the tries, and ultimately the defeat. Structurally and practically defence was again poor, skill under the high ball was absent, scrum work was sloppy and their capacity to self-harm in the second half ensured another victory for the more composed All Blacks.
Turning over possession cheaply is a nasty Wallabies trait of recent times.
Perhaps the Wallabies were always going to get beaten. But maybe, if Peyper had shown some bottle in the opening half-hour, the Wallabies' confidence might have grown, instead of withering. The game might have gone down to the wire.
At least James Slipper won't remember Peyper's game. After the referee missed Ma'a Nonu's blatant shoulder charge to his head earlier, when Slipper was knocked out trying to tackle the centre later in the first half, Peyper clocked him lying face down in the turf and chose to play on. New Zealand scored again.
The IRB might want to send Peyper the guidebook on duty of care. A bit of holiday reading.
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