I think he has a independent platform to call out the level of refereeing and it was appropriate since we are getting into it that the referee for the penalty claims he didn't see it and his AR who was presumably with the offside line and therefore at a crap angle to see it called it over comms - also there was not a person in the ground who appealed for a handball and none of the AU coaching staff could see a pen - so if the referee or his eagle eyed AR (who normally only does youth boys and girls - to reinforce my point) were the only ones to see a pen - good on them.
Following that from the kick off both these sharp eyed officials missed an Ellerslie player who was probably 15 meters in the AU half when the kickoff was taken...
also not so sure you can be 100% clear on the first handball - we have had lots of feedback from officials that while her hand moves towards the ball it's still planted on the ground and is not in an un-natural position and there was no AU player in playing distance of the ball so I would say plenty of debate for that call as well.
Following that from the kick off both these sharp eyed officials missed an Ellerslie player who was probably 15 meters in the AU half when the kickoff was taken...
also not so sure you can be 100% clear on the first handball - we have had lots of feedback from officials that while her hand moves towards the ball it's still planted on the ground and is not in an un-natural position and there was no AU player in playing distance of the ball so I would say plenty of debate for that call as well.