Azreal

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Oh, those naughty rugby rules! As much as armchair fans want objective rule outcomes and interpretations, it’s never going to happen. The professional game’s entirely controlled by the financial northern hemisphere hierarchy, and those naughty bent rule interpretations mean cashed up unions can continue to submit their plumped-up brown paper bags along with their preferred game plans to the IRB, who can then direct their appointed match officials appropriately, so they can tweak 50/50 outcomes to suit the size of the donation.. say, where Farrell likes to take penalty kicks from. Or earning inexplicable scrum penalties when deep in trouble. Just like the Qatar football world cup – big money talks for the top federations who can afford it. RA’s broke so they don’t even have a brown paper bag. The top cashed-up unions would definitely be swimming in it with the IRB to get their 60/40 on-field decisions locked in.. let’s not be naive. Major match outcomes would rarely be decided purely by on-field player interactions alone.

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