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February 19th 2008 @ 12:31am
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Habana slams Super 14’s ELVs
Rugby World Cup star Bryan Habana has criticised the new rules being trialled in the Super 14 competition, saying they are turning the game into rugby league.
After watching the opening round, do you agree with Habana?
Having played three games under the new format, the South African and Bulls winger is not a fan and [...]
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jools-usa said | February 19th 2008 @ 1:33am | Report comment
It’s easy for Brian H, he’s been busy chasing Cheetahs & working on his speed, whilst I and other fanatics have
suffered the slow torture of only having 6-Nations games on the tube.
Just when my group of frustrated watchers were channel surfing looking for ANYTHING with some life, we saw the ‘Tahs/Canes game and the beer flowed, nearly as much as the game, which was compelling.
Bring it on every weekend & tell the sponsors they’re onto something here.
Jools-USA
Woy Woy Boy said | February 19th 2008 @ 10:23am | Report comment
If we want to see people running around like a mad woman’s s..t we can always watch AFL. No wonder the players are dropping with cramp under the new rules.
As they say – “if it ain’t broke, don’t try and fix it”.
Why don’t the powers that be get the refs into shape and sort their myopia out first? They are the ones that are ruining the game with incompetence ( a la World Cup fiasco).
How is it the Sth African ref on the weekend “did not see” two blatant punches – yet he could award two tries that every possible camera angle filed to see?
Woy Woy Boy – NSW.
Harri said | February 19th 2008 @ 12:07pm | Report comment
There’s been too much tinkering with the rules over the last couple of years and I agree with Habana’s comments. Have a look at the Sharks vs Force game: there was far too much kicking and if it continues that way, there is a danger it will be become a variation of AFL, instead of the old style Rugby we grew up with and loved
Photon said | February 19th 2008 @ 5:37pm | Report comment
Hi guys
I agree with Bryan if we wanted to watch league we would get a NRL subscription, the way things are going rugby will soon not cater for any player who isn’t between 100 and 110 kilograms, that’s goodbye Matt Giteau, Goodbye Bolla Conradie,cheers Os du Randt, Jason Leonard your services are no longer needed. I thought rugby was meant to be a game for all sizes, guess those days are gone. Anyway that’s just what I think
Benny said | February 19th 2008 @ 7:08pm | Report comment
There has been ONE round of the Super 14 played and all you guys (jools excepted) can’t wait to bag the new laws. C’mon give the ELVs a decent go!!!
jools-usa said | February 20th 2008 @ 2:11am | Report comment
Agree with WOY WOY BOY, re refs.
But having been one once dealing with inebrated touch judges & irate fans wanting to kill me for decisions, I feel the powers-that-be MUST have the touchjudges be more vigilant.
How about 2 touchjudges on each sideline, each covering one half?
Gotta help the poor ref & we can’t have major games decided by his missing stuff.
Jools-USA
DT said | February 20th 2008 @ 9:34pm | Report comment
Haban’s comments don’t bear close examination, I’m afraid.
Stop start is the essence of rugby? Really?
If he has serious objections, he should be specific.
bob said | February 26th 2008 @ 12:16am | Report comment
Bryan is right. It’s a joke that SA rugby should ahve signed up for the ELV’s which will only suit the aussies and maybe the kiwis. The new laws wont be adopted in europe because we have different conditions and a different emphasis, we like power plays, set pieces, scrums…as do SA. The aussies can’t handle it so they try to change it by loud mouthing in the IRB, and the kiwis go with them because they’re stupid enough to think anything new is good. But the ELV’s will kill the game over the next few years, and nobody will develop poerful props or locks because developin them takes years and years, and why bother when you can tap and go? So the scrummagers will get lighter and weaker and we’ll be just like league! The solution for SA is to give up on the super14 rubbish and the aussies and kiwis, and come into europeaan leagues and contests under the real rugby laws that we still honour up here… after all, you are geographically closer to europe than youa re to auckland! And I bet you get a better reception here in the UK than you do in Oz or NZ! Come north and play it like it’s meant to be played!
Global ELVs Trial: Whither the Lower-Level Refs? said | December 24th 2009 @ 10:44pm | Report comment
[...] detractors, such as 2007 IRB player of the year Bryan Habana, claim that the ELVs will make rugby union more like rugby league. If he means that we’ll actually start seeing some tries, perhaps he’s [...]