Imagine being childish enough to come to that conclusion. Only if you were below the age of 13 would it even been mildly excusable.

@@somanytakennames facts only facts, see the video, it's obvious

@@somanytakennames Whether you think Bruce's comments childish or not is irrelevant, the point is Andrew grace is an appalling referee who has been allowed to mess up games for years. We want consistent and objective refs. However, Brace "the refereeing disgrace", kept Exeter in this one through some interesting calls.

Victim mentality, based only in wishful thinking and childish logic. He was jumping over a player who had gone to ground, and he breathed heavily because he's been running around for over 100 mins. Additionally, there were only two big calls the refs got wrong: missing the forward pass for Montpellier's first try, and missing the Exeter player off his feet that should have made the no-try from the 73rd minute be a penalty rather than scrum to Exeter Basically, 1 bad decision each way, and the bad call that went in Montpellier's favour helped them more than the other one hurt them Shut up, get out, cry more, grow up.

@@tsherwood2112 No, you're wrong, he doesn't jump over a player, no one gets in his way and he breathes well from relief and not from the long run he didn't make before. You are the one who is childishly interpreting the facts to protect yourself from the real thing, that's called denial, that's all. There is no point in attacking other people's arguments by calling them childish.

lol which one?

@@Mr___X a draw is a draw, no matter how many tries you've scored

@@faysalennay9709 agreed, now what about the ridiculous application of the red card?

We call it theft, not bad luck... cultural difference no doubt

Yes, Brace seems to be favoured by the IRB/WR because he is the model new referee. No feeling for the sport, but will pick up the most inconsequential technical offence to rule out a try/send off a player. He also doesn't handle pressure well, tends to unfairly back the team going forward, and seems to become erratic towards the end of a match. For a professional outfit, the standard of refereeing is genuinely so much worse than it was even 20 years ago. At least in the amateur era you knew the refs would be unfair to the away team - now the standard is just as bad, if not worse, and there's seemingly nothing teams can do to mitigate it.

@@Mr___X so correctly disallowing a try for blocking and sending a player off for a high tackle to the head make him a bad ref? He’s favored by the IRB because he calls the rules correctly. He didn’t make the rules, but he handled all the situations correctly. He let play go on as live it didn’t seem anything to him at the moment, TMO radios down tells him hey you need to look at this. He looks, sees he was wrong and corrects. All this calling that the officiating was poor is just French fans being in their feelings for losing. That block stopped a prop from probably making a tackle on the player who eventually threw a pass that released the ball down the wing, the high tackle was a should directly to the head going upward. Red card in new laws and old, ball was knocked on it a ruck. Those aren’t calls that you can just say the ref blew they are unlucky breaks for Mont. but they were called correctly

@@haydengeorge956 Whatever makes you sleep at night cupcake🤣

@@haydengeorge956 That would not have been a red card under old rules, probably not even a penalty.

​@@haydengeorge956 I'm Irish, not a French fan. Brace had the freedom to watch that mercer tackle multiple times and still came to the conclusion that "he was upright and there was a high degree of force" not to mention the ballcarrier was dropping. You can defend him all you want since your team benefitted from his decisions but the fact of the matter is montpellier were robbed by incompetent refs

You would probably be complaining if it did.

@@Kevin-lf4xx why would I complain when it's far more fair?

Agreed

Agreed, ridiculous way to decide a match. Penalty shootouts in rugby are a novelty, and as silly as they mean seem, it's a fairer way to settle a match than deciding one team has 'won' when the scores are level at the final whistle.

​@@Mr___X I don't care for penalty shootouts but this garbage of more tries or who scored first is a disgrace

Joy Neville as TMO with Andrew Brace as ref has to be the most cursed combo in rugby. The soul of the game is being ruined for the sake of officious busybody sharp elbowed types.

Complaining about the Ref is bad. You will get banned

@@khethokuhlemvelase9822 Yeah long live the corrupt referees

😅

just a bit

Yes, not understanding is sadly what they want. They want to devalue the sport and disenfranchise long time supporters and amateur stakeholders so it can be changed as a professional business in to something totally different.

With the anglos it's always like that

I’ m not agree, bad Luck to exeter

Red card canceled. Nice referee, hope he will a great career 😂

@@philippedevine5124 classic 😜

Basil I agree, I've seen so much of this and the players have never been hurt from it, just crazy!!

Agree. It's absurd at the moment

Destroyed, not destroying. It's too late, the inconsistency is the point: you're meant to become apathetic about it and accept that "rules is rules", except no-one understands the rules, they can change every year, they have wildly different interpretation and outcomes...shall I go on?

Wonderful spectacle however as a neutral this high tackle law is making each game a lottery . Why would you travel to big games as a supporter any more … it’s really killing our sport .

Theres a reason viewership and general participation has fallen off a cliff.. the sports gone soft

The TMO doesn't make the decision.

@@noelpucarua2843 But highly influences it.

@@Frugbyy Maybe the TMO would influence you. But that doesn't mean a TMO would influence a referee. The Ref knows the decisions their's, and will have to account for it.

@@noelpucarua2843 You are willingly blind

@@ethanmakulit238 No. The Ref makes the decision. If you disagree you can give me an instance where the TMO makes the decision. Go for it.

C'était pas Barnes l'arbitre pourtant

Agree!! On both counts :)

Anglo-Saxon mafia...

Not sure what you’re looking at 😂 clear red shoulder straight to the head knees bent but zero waist bend to get low clear red under the laws

Totally ok with your comment. Il n'y a absolument pas carton rouge. Dans ce cas, on ne touche l'adversaire !

@@haydengeorge956 naah. Watch the appeal .. 3 weeks will be reducef to 2 weeks (ie: shudda been yellow).

@@MrRugbylane DId you just contradict yourself? Should have been a yellow but still gets a 2 week ban?

@@Karma-qt4ji Nope if a red card ban is reduced from three weeks to two, it signals it should have been yellow. If its removed completely it means it isnt even a penalty

Haha cry more.

@@track6631 a robbery and you know it

@@jpb7887 a win and I know it 🥰

@@track6631 you are so bad haha

The right answer to give is Top14 withdraw from Anglo-Saxon mafia's competitions then creation of Top16.

Yes. Must be match fixing, that’s definitely the conclusion a logical person comes to.

I was at the game and the Frenchies got plenty go in their favor

Just standard IRFU refereeing tbh.

It's always funs to see the reactions other people have when it comes to test/European rugby. Now you get to see what everyone else has to stomach in the Yoo Are See! Not pretty, is it?

@@Powerofmorris84 Frenchies?? You went to school? Typical Southern English ass.

Welsh ref

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

exeter went through cos they scored more tries...

@@bipper64 😲

they scored more tries

Because 33-33 is a draw, no matter how you got the points. Imagine if this was a final and your team scored less, you'd be furious. It should either be penalties, go to a replay, or be first try scored in extra time. Deciding on a winner at a 33-33 scoreline like this is nonsense. This rule needs to go.

Is it the only weird thing you noticed about the match?

That's why red card was cancelled

@@marcb.1114 Seems soft, it was reckless at best. However Montpellier should have had at least a couple more yellows in the match kissed so probably evens itself out.

the rules allow for discrection and factoring, this ref just reached a realy poor decision!

you can see here that you obviously didn't watch the same game as the other commentators. I tend to really avoid criticism of the refereeing when I disagree with the decisions or consider it has been poor but this was something completely different and on another scale; the ref was clearly biased and Exeter would never have qualified without his active support. Its the first time I ve entertained doubts about the honesty of the game

@@laurentdupasquier7872 Well you are entitled to your opinion but I have a different opinion and thought the referee had a good game , if you want to see some poor refereeing I suggest you watch La Rochelle v Gloucester where the English team got bugger all for 80 minutes and were still winning against the odds with a few minutes left , or the performance of the French ref in the Stormers v Quins match where his interpretation of the law book was significantly different to most of Western civilization.

@@neilcarpenter2669 doubt you're neutral and that is also a bit of whataboutery. Anyway talking about neutrals read reviews from other countries ( Irl , NZ etc ) and even some English reviews and they are also very critical. There are clearly some problems linked to this particular ref , check out his other games and you'll see it s not the first time

@@neilcarpenter2669 Well, Rob Baxter himself (Exeter coach) has also said the crowd had probably influenced the ref decisions. So if you don't see anything...you're probably not as neutral as you think. In France, Brace is known for always taking weird decisions against french teams. He has been massively insulted, threatened after France lost against England in 2021, after the Autumns cup final. He said that was a scary situation (I believe him), that he has been really upset by the situation...But it has obviously added some more anger against the frogs. Sometimes the ref is not good, but he was appalling on that Exeter Montpellier game...and will surprisingly will be on the pitch next sunday for the La Rochelle / Saracens game. You can be sure that in case the game is tight, La Rochelle will be out.

Sure they do. That’s why the ref awarded Montpellier a chance to draw the match at the end of regular time right? Clearly idiots like you don’t think before they type.

You watch the Gloucester game vs La Rochelle ? 😂 swings and roundabouts

@@danielfletcher4315la Rochelle is in England? Didn’t know.

Bla bla cry more.

I agree that the French have a tough time in general, given the UK connections most of the time. But this was not the case here, Andrew Brace is just a bad referee.

5 tries against 4.

They scored more tries (or trys? Sorry I'm not english)

@@matteotravaini1950 More trys

the Montpellier 8 stood his ground, he never went into the tackle, there was no force from him, the force was from the Exeter player going down, how can the ref say what he did