\u201cThe head drops forward and there is contact with the head,\u201d Adamson responded.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not the high tackle, it\u2019s the player in a whiplash motion that creates the contact for us,\u201d Carley concluded with his touch judges, moving on from the situation.<\/p>\n
The English referee stayed consistent with these types of calls throughout the match. He gave a penalty for a high shot from Eben Etzebeth on Tupou Vaa\u2019i before the 10th minute but did not show a card and the TMO did not intervene.<\/p>\n
Fans were furious with the referee\u2019s decision to not show Savea a yellow card late in the game. <\/p>\n
\u201cThese were yellow cards evrry [sic] day for the last year and now all of a sudden its ok,\u201d one online commenter said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPoor officiating!! Even Jordi [sic] Barrett knocking the ball out of Marx hand, few weird decisions but Boks let themselves down too,\u201d another claimed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis should have been a penalty only as it started low and then moved up with head contact … \u201d another said.<\/p>\n
At the time of the controversial call, New Zealand were up 26-16.<\/p>\n
The Springboks instead found themselves reduced to 14 men when the TMO was asked by Carley to check an infringement at a ruck near the Springboks\u2019 try line, which ended with Marco van Staden sent to the sin bin.<\/p>\n
About a minute later, Cobus Reinach was given a yellow card for a deliberate knock-on, seeing the hosts end the test with just 13 players on the field.<\/p>\n