Disgracefully cowardly refereeing.

That should have been red. Hope France smash em now

Some great commentary as well! Belly tackle!

Another coward of a ref. BTW, who are the side in Blue, don't remember seeing them in the world cup to date?

Its come from the first one, you deal with that this doesn't happen. Players should be protected

Please excuse my ignorance fellas but what's actually happening? Is it Samoa putting these bad tackles in or France? And who is the ref?

Don't worry, I will pay for premier Sports next time

I thought Penerera or whatever his name is was useless anyway, tonight has confirmed it.

Samoa.

Samoa need to learn to tackle.. that's the hint

The French are in good try escare

gotta use your hands to tackle. Shots are illegal and filled with malice. Referee should be firm on them but he isn't up to the role. Refs in the NZ comp or NRL (not sure, wouldn't want to be reffed by him).

The French are feeding off the poor antics of the Samoan team and the crowds reaction to it.

Great game.

We've got full time officials on both sides of the world and the standard they show is not what would be expected of full time officials. Not so much in fitness but in terms of moral courage, which is sorely lacking.

Perenara looks lost, clueless.

Tip tackle and the feckin ref wasn't going to call it until the TJ did.

DISGRACE

Are the Samoans gonna be able to field a side in the QFs if they all get put on report tonight?

For those not watching, Samoa have had one in the bin and have 3 on report.

That was poor from the officials. Take a report if you don't see it ref. on report is such a massive cop out

He's going to bruise his forearms if he keeps putting people on report.

Looks like he's advertising the X Factor.

huit metres forward, v funny

It's going to take a player getting paralyzed/killed before referees grow a pair and start making decisions not cop outs.

If someone get's badly injured, it's on your head parranara (however you spell his name).

Why has agar stuck with Baille?

Glad the officials went off after the teams and the crowd made it very clear what they thought of them.

If France play the conditions better in the second half they've got a chance...

World cup semi finals and onwards to be reffed by snakes as no backbone is required to get the plum ties. Imagine Aus v Eng in the final. Which impartial referee would get that gig?

Clue: He's reffing tonight.

What a bunch of hypocrites the scummy Samoans are. All that praying before and after the game then they act like a team of thugs. Wouldn't be so bad if it was big blokes on big blokes. Cowardly attacks, Kick them out of the comp, along with this idiot of a ref