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Agreed PM, I thought the ref was pretty good. Pretty strict, but consistently so. Can’t complain about that.
The 50:22 ruling in the second half did not appear to be correct based on the replays Nine was showing at the time. Maybe the TMO had better footage. She certainly seemed very confident.
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Let’s say Swain hasn’t retaliated.
It’s entirely possible, if not likely, Hill would not have been carded.
Yes, that’s right. It stinks, and it irks me as much as it does you. But that’s life.
whether on their own or together, deserves a week or two on the sideline.
Unfortunately they can’t be considered together. You can’t be cited for two yellow card offences.
I think both morally wrong and technically wrong
Morally – I agree completely. Technically – I’m not so sure, and clearly the citing commissioner didn’t think so.
Rugby News: England star off home, Swain cited but Barrett, Hill and Jones off scot free, Poms cancel 'social' after loss
Thanks Geoff. Agree about “crying wolf” being an issue.
Another emerging significant problem is selective footage being shown (or not shown!) by the home broadcaster.
Maybe a cricket-like process where each team gets one TMO review is worth considering, as others have suggested previously. Maybe it would create more problems than it solves. I don’t know the answer.
The Wrap: No global Nations Championship but the southern hemisphere sweeps Round 1 all the same
I agree almost completely with you, wre01. Hill was a grub and deserved more than what he got.
But you don’t always have to use RCs to stamp out foul play. I wouldn’t want to them being dolled out for every bit of handbags.
For me, the right outcome would’ve been no retaliation by Swain but rather some smarter way of attracting the TMO’s attention (something I think we should have a pre-planned strategy for), and a YC.
Before / after the whistle does matter, and always will. Once play stops, all mitigation goes out the window.
Rugby News: England star off home, Swain cited but Barrett, Hill and Jones off scot free, Poms cancel 'social' after loss
Infringements after play has stopped are always going to judged more harshly; that’s just how it is.
Both the hair pull and the hands to the face were disgraceful and worthy of a YC. My point is that if either had happened in isolation (i.e. Swain didn’t retaliate) and gone to TMO review, I don’t think we’d be arguing that it must be red. Most people, I feel, would regard yellow as sufficient.
And if they don’t meet the RC threshold, he can’t be cited.
Rugby News: England star off home, Swain cited but Barrett, Hill and Jones off scot free, Poms cancel 'social' after loss
Infuriating as it is, I actually think it’s the right decision. Viewed in isolation (as they should be), I don’t really feel either the hair pull or the hands to the face were red card infringements. Yes, Creevy did get a one week ban for pulling Etzebeth’s hair, but that was after the whistle, so not exactly comparable.
A red card might have been poetic justice, but then the ref would arguably be doing exactly what sore loser Eddie Jones (wrongly) accused him of – “evening things up”.
Rugby News: England star off home, Swain cited but Barrett, Hill and Jones off scot free, Poms cancel 'social' after loss
Like every WB fan I felt aggrieved that justice wasn’t served, but on sober reflection I think the ref and the citing commissioner (who has taken no action) probably did the right thing.
Neither the hair pull nor the hands to the face were really RC offences. If the head butt had never happened and the TMO picked them up, I think most people would feel YC at most was appropriate.
A RC for Hill (either on field or via the judiciary) might be justice, but might create a precedent for excessively heavy handed RCs in the future. I was angry at the ref at the time, but in hindsight maybe he deserves credit for dealing with it objectively.
The main thing for me is that the WBs need urgent dedicated coaching about how to deal with dirty play. How to direct the attention of the TMO, what to do if someone lies on the tackler to prevent them rolling away, etc. All these dirty tactics are as old as the hills, and all can be countered with the right response. These should all be planned for and drilled into the players, so it becomes automatic. If not, prepare to keep losing 3 points or getting cards. Given what’s at stake, it seems strange that this hasn’t been done already.
The Wrap: No global Nations Championship but the southern hemisphere sweeps Round 1 all the same
Wow. Thanks for pointing that out.
It was already great work by MK to push two opponents including Kolisi off the ball; it’s even better when you see he was further away from that spot than nearly anyone else on the field when play started.
What a heart that man has.
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If you click on the link and read Ashfak Mohamed’s article, in that quote he is actually talking about last week’s match, not this one.
Regarding yesterday, he says there are no excuses.
SA View: 'Robotic' and 'flaccid' Springboks make Wallabies look like 'world beaters'
If Cooper had been picked and performed poorly (which – no disrespect to QC’s ability and experience – is not unlikely), everyone would be calling for Rennie’s head right now.
Wallabies need an urgent injection of composure ahead of Springboks and Pumas
the Wallabies once again got suckered into a shoot-out that, while it was guaranteed to keep the Perth crowd entertained
Not this crowd member!
I don’t mind being beaten by a better side, I don’t blame our inexperienced young players who are doing their best in a baptism of fire, and Lolesio is by no means the first international to shank a kick from right in front (I remember being at Subiaco Oval when Matt Burke missed a sitter that cost us a win against the Springboks).
But we ought to value possession a lot more than was the case yesterday. I can deal with the rest, but the repeated high-risk cute passes under heavy pressure, aimlessly spinning it out wide and lack of urgency to get to the breakdown were disappointing.
I’ll always go to see the WBs but on this showing, I don’t think I’ll be shelling out again for a premium seat next time.
The Wrap: Rinse and repeat as sharply focused All Blacks sweep the Wallabies
The darting runs out of scrum half were definitely entertaining, as was seeing Dave Rennie on the big screen mouthing what looked to me like “Thank $&@*!” when we finally went over.
Not a great deal else though.
MATCH REPORT: Rennie called for a foot on the throat, but All Blacks' response was 'ruthless'
Not only disallowed but against the run of play.
Truth is we were totally dominated in the first half, and the second wasn’t a heck of a lot better.
By the end of the game, even the Kiwi spectators sitting around us were sympathetic.
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We felt that was a pretty even first half.
Are you serious, Dave? It was humiliating.
I didn’t expect us to win, but we should’ve run them closer than that. The final score was flattering to us, I thought.
'Frustrating but I'm loving it': Every word Dave Rennie said after another tough loss to All Blacks
Purely hypothetical of course, but suppose the WBs had won one Test and the other was a tie.
I don’t believe for a moment that the ABs would then have withdrawn from the 28th.
All these excuses would go straight out the window, compared with the risk of game 3 not going ahead at all, and becoming the team who voluntarily gave up the Bledisloe because the poor diddums couldn’t cope with the uncertainty.
Rugby Australia still hopeful of Perth Bledisloe Test
If the WBs had won the first Test and drawn the second (fanciful of course, but just for the sake of argument), the ABs would crawl through broken glass to get to Perth next weekend. I know it, and you know it.
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Why are so many adamant that McGowan is just playing politics?
The negatives of border closures / quarantine have to be weighed up against those of letting in a disease that’s wreaking havoc elsewhere.
I couldn’t give a hoot about politics, and personally I think that McGowan’s stance is justified on public interest grounds alone – to this point, anyway. I reckon I’d have done the same if I was in charge here (fortunately for WA, I’m not).
The irony is that NZ’s decision to pull out is nothing to do with McGowan, so the one playing politics here is yourself.
All Blacks pull out of Perth Bledisloe, SANZAAR considers European options for TRC
Four claims…. with crickets in support, Tony
There were in fact five, Ken – the first was that the doctor you cited is not an expert in the relevant field (since you mentioned logical fallacies earlier, that particular one is known as an appeal to authority).
As for the other four: what is it that you want evidence of? Are you disputing that he actually said those things, or are you disputing that they are misleading / wrong?
'Nature of the world we live in': WA Premier casts doubt over Bledisloe 3, rules out TRC hosting
Peter McCullough is not an expert in infectious disease or immunity.
If that’s not a red flag for you (and it should be), maybe have a look at some of his past claims, ranging from:
– misleading (natural infection provides better immunity – provided you ignore the fact that it’s come at a cost of over 4 million deaths to date),
– to completely lacking in evidence (there have been thousands of vaccine-related deaths);
– to plain wrong (people can’t be re-infected);
– to absurd (vaccines are just a way to get you on a database for marketing and behaviour modification purposes).
'Nature of the world we live in': WA Premier casts doubt over Bledisloe 3, rules out TRC hosting
It’s not made clear – not to me, anyway! – what the judiciary consider to be the correct ruling.
Penalty? YC? Play on?
Anyone?
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And if Scott Barrett’s effort at Perth two years ago was a red, so was this
Can’t agree with that, Coker. Barrett’s was an out and out shoulder charge to a player whose head was down a foot or more lower than his own.
But I’m with you on MK’s tackle. I felt he was unlucky to see red due to mitigation – at contact, Jelonch‘s knees are bent to the point that he’s a lot lower down than his (shorter) teammate standing nearby. But it’s a clear YC these days.
The Wrap: Will Marika Koroibete’s red card be the making of the Wallabies?
O’Keefe seems to have a very high bar for what constitutes a “significant drop”!
YC for me.
Everyone in disbelief as Marika Koroibete handed hugely controversial straight red
In this day and age when there are a million cameras and a TMO intent on interfering with everything
Not when a try is scored off a forward pass, apparently.
It beggars belief that that, when the reviewed overhead camera was not in line, it didn’t occur to them that there would be a camera on the sideline with a better angle.
That footage has now surfaced and, predictably, shows the ball clearly travelling forward.
Five talking points from Wales vs France
A kick in the guts indeed. At 34 he’s playing as well as ever. Far and away the comp’s leading tackler (145) at 91% success rate. I hope he hasn’t played his last game for us; we can hardly afford to lose him.
Shame we couldn’t score at the end but you can’t say we didn’t have enough opportunities. Well done Blues.
Hang in there, Force. For the most part, the poor season hasn’t been for lack of effort and I think the fans appreciate that (even if most of us stayed home last night due to the storms here yesterday). Losing Jono Lance early in the season was terrible luck – he really looked like he could be the answer to our chronic fly half woes. Stick at it fellas and fix up that line out!
Force skipper Hodgson likely out for season
Gawd I wish Lolesio hadn’t coughed up that ball straight into the hands of his opposite number. That was a disaster. In such a hard fought game, a soft try like that is a killer. Nice set of heels from Smith though.
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