'Unbelievable' call leaves ex-international fuming

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Triple planetary Allana Ferguson has hammered the "unbelievable" telephone to paper 2 Wallaroos astatine the aforesaid clip in a lucifer swinging infinitesimal of their Rugby World Cup opener against the Black Ferns.

With the lucifer successful the equilibrium astatine 17-17 successful the 2nd half, referee Aimee Barrett-Theron sent Australian winger Ivania Wong to the sin-bin for deliberately batting the shot down with the Kiwis blistery connected attack.

Holding retired the satellite champions with 14 players would person been pugnacious capable but TMO Ian Tempest past intervened to pass Barrett-Theron of imaginable foul play successful the buildup to the Wong yellow.

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After watching respective replays disconnected Shannon Parry's tackle connected Liana Mikaele-Tu'u, the officials decided the precocious interaction warranted 10 minutes successful the bin for the Aussie skipper.

New Zealand scored 14 unanswered points against their outnumbered rivals en way to a comfy 41-17 triumph astatine a sold retired Eden Park connected Saturday.

"The hard happening for maine to get my caput around, those 2 yellowish cards, the archetypal 1 was Ivania Wong got sent disconnected due to the fact that she tapped the shot down," Ferguson said connected Stan Sport's coverage.

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"But past they went backmost and they wanted to person different look astatine Shan Parry for precocious interaction connected the head. But the happening that I find tricky to get my caput astir is that the Shan Parry incidental really happened beforehand.

"So wherefore can't we past spell backmost and accidental 'well you cognize what, disregard the archetypal yellowish card, let's conscionable spell with Shannon Parry'?"

Neither Parry nor Wallaroos manager Jay Tregonning criticised the determination successful post-game interviews, alternatively bemoaning their ain side's deficiency of discipline.

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"The archetypal yellowish paper is really the 2nd indiscretion due to the fact that Shannon Parry's happened a fig of phases earlier but didn't get picked up until aft Ivania Wong was sent from the field," Wallabies large Drew Mitchell added connected Stan Sport.

"So I tin decidedly recognize the logic successful that (Ferguson's view). But unluckily due to the fact that we spot here, the interaction to the caput from Shannon Parry, is simply a wide yellowish card, which we're not disputing.

"But what you're saying is that if that was picked up successful the moment, we wouldn't person got to the signifier wherever Ivania Wong infringed, truthful she wouldn't person got a yellowish card."

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"Exactly, it's lone fair," Ferguson continued.

"And if you're having a look astatine the crippled arsenic a spectator athletics arsenic well, it was 17 apiece - the Black Ferns, immoderate planetary crippled is hard capable and you instrumentality 2 players off, the crippled wholly changed from there.

"I find it rather unbelievable that they can't spell backmost to that infinitesimal with Ivania Wong and accidental 'you cognize what, we're going to spell with the yellowish paper that happened beforehand.

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"I recognize that it's planetary rules but it's conscionable precise hard to get your caput astir erstwhile that's not the mode the crippled was played. There was nary malice successful it, she didn't wounded anyone, it was conscionable tapping the shot down."

Australian sevens prima Dominique du Toit agreed aft watching the Wallaroos stroke an aboriginal 17-0 pb and concede 41 unanswered points.

"It was specified a important constituent successful the game, similar 17-all, the Wallaroos had each the momentum astatine that point," du Toit said.

"To marque a telephone similar that, the full momentum swings and that's erstwhile the Black Ferns conscionable took it away. If you person 15 women connected the tract it's a precise antithetic ending to that crippled I think."

Earlier connected Saturday, France and England comfortably bushed South Africa and Fiji respectively.

Australia's adjacent excavation crippled is against Scotland connected October 15.

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