Drobe

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What has happened to our game??! There was a time if you went into a tackle that high you would have been yoked by my coach or at best got a “serves em right, that’ll learn em…round the legs son”!.
Cant we see the irony? Hodge gets 3 weeks for the Tackle against Fiji, arms, no arms, whatever he was high and aledgy did damage to his adversary. fast forward we wasted 5GB and nearly missed Les Norton whilst the ref massaged his ego to decide if an offending high tackler was hit by a legal ball carrying arm to wit he did lube up the acme thunderer and villify a player playing the game and at the same time arbitrate a ruling that has all the hallmarks of a teacher waling in late to a playground tiff and awarding detention to the biggest kid who was just trying to eat his lunch.

And thats just the start
Seconds later whilst the Wallabies were thinking WTF a ball runner just got penalised, and the faithful few back in Australia had ducked off to refill a beer and relieve themselves after such an in comprehendible interlude after what was up until that point was a gritty, free flowing game of Rugby, the ref was either bathing in the afterglow of his moment of inordinate power exorcised on the world stage, or was in fact pondering his actions and thinking that well maybe he did get a bit carried away, caught up n the intoxicating beverage of World Cup fever. Whatever his reasoning the fact that he missed a blatant offside and proceeded to blow the pea on a controversial try without a moments hesitation, consult with his cohorts or so much as a TMO (to be fair they were catching their breath) is a disgrace. Granted Wales and that cheeky bloody 1/2 Back had the nouse to put it all on red when they were on a roll and it worked.
All the rugby world craves is consistency.
I have had consistently good refs in my time and endured consistently bad refs. Either of them I will take over incinsistent arbitaries.
It ruins the game. Consistency, good or bad can let the players and the game find a rhythm and a momentum of its own.
Inconsistency is the assasin of our game. It promotes all that is bad in Rugby. An inconsistent team will pay the price when the season gets to the pointy end, they cant hide.
But what of the Referee. Its a thankless job. If a ref has a great game rest assured no one is talking about his performance on the field. To that end this profession is a paradox of human nature .
Aus v Wales case in point.
Wales went out with a plan to win and they worked it to their potential.
Australia did also.
What swayed the decision in the end was a a man in the middle whom, if he had a good game we would struggle to remember his name.

PS Love this Game

The Wallabies didn't lose because of Romain Poite, but World Rugby, we do have a problem

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