[RUGBYLIST] Da Scrum.com.

[Luigi Bocchino]

Losers:  
Stuart Dickinson
Stuart Dickinson, a man that always appears to the spectator to have a different copy of the Laws to anyone else in the game, transmogrified himself from his usual petty pedantry, to absolute craven cowardice. In short, he bottled it, and not for the first time at this level. 
The reason? As the All Blacks crumpled against a far superior scrum they conceded seven red zone penalties. Try as they might to deliberately wheel, disrupt and prevaricate, the All Blacks were destroyed as the Italian pack showed more power than their national Government has ever managed, ripping the All Blacks apart as they relentlessly pushed to the try line. 
Dickinson allowed the All Blacks to get away with murder; there's little doubt if the All Blacks had been pressing like that then he'd have run under the posts. As it was Tialata got a deserved yellow, but there were other cards that should have been dealt out, notably to the AB blindside flank for deliberately detaching and handling. Italy walked away with nothing thanks to Stu, a lot less than they deserved. 


      
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