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Have you got some examples of only NZ being favoured and as well as playing all their tests at home and at the same time examples of other teams never being favoured and playing 100% of their tests overseas?

Finally, your comment on Nick Briant must be the soul reason why he was hooked at half time. The Wellington oligarchs didn’t want the Brumbies even sniffing a win hahaha. Pathetic! Maybe he’s on your case because the canes are notoriously dirty players?!?! Coles, for example, is a good player but a bloody grub who can’t hold his agression and in no way deserves to be captain but hey, that’s the epitome of the Hurricanes and Briant is onto it. Most fan’s don’t complain in general because they only understand winning and loosing and don’t have the intelligence to pick apart the officiating of the game because they have little to zero idea on the rules (partly because there are so many). So I can agree with you in the sense that I doubt many of the bandwagon chiefs supporters will complain (they just wont go to the games, I mean have a look at the Cheifs turnouts at games, its pathetic but no more or less pathetic than the Brumbies supporters I guess) but I bet there is at least one and maybe he will note something that everyone else is missing/glazed over. Maybe just maybe, that directed aggression from that one person, is what will bring the Chiefs back to glory rather than taking the mamby pamby approach where nobody says anything negative and everyone just smiles, regardless of result.

Paddy is Podraic.

Corruption? Good grief

P.S. Tony Ever think that if more than one person is making a point about kiwi teams getting the rub of the green, then maybe there's something to it? I guess ignorance is bliss for a kiwi when your teams on top or have you lot forgotten the forward pass against the french in the 2007 WC? or have you been sinking too much tui beer and forgotten? Don't get so childish bro, some days your the good team some days you aren't but it certainly helps your end result when you're teams getting the rub of the green...ignoramus. Jesus! Why is talking to kiwi rugby fans like talking to Jahova's witness advocates?

Funny change of tone/angle of argument after being called out bro. Nobody is perfect and you kiwi's certainly aren't. I'm cool as a cucumber mate, just stating some cold hard facts. Look mate, I can appreciate a better team I really can, I just don't appreciate poor officiating and particularly when it leads to a major momentum shift. I mean how many bloody times to I have to say it before it sinks in? I'm not raging at your teams but I admit, I do have a degree of discontent towards them. Discontent for NZ rugby, because its the greatest, is the same as if it were England or Ireland (if they were the greatest at rugby) because those who aren't the greatest want to beat you and be better than you...that's human nature. All I ask for in the 21st century is a fair go and a clean game, the same anyone would request. So Tony, it's no use hiding behind your moral high ground and denying it when you're being called out. Simply because I picked apart the first 10 mins of a game I thought, and showed, was manipulated by the officials. Would you like me to continue with the remaining 70mins? If yes, I want $100 up front...I'm not doing that for free when all of you could just forgo some ignorance and watch the FULL replay yourselves.

Hey Paddy cool down Im not trying to preech from on high, just said its the same old chestnut all the time - ie- when Kiwi teams win we always get told we got the rub of the green and the Ref ignored all our infringements etc etc - its never that we were the better team and deserved to win - its just not true we don't get the rub of the green any more than anyone else, but also u very rarely see a kiwi fan moaning about it like some of the posts on this blog - FYI I dislike that ref Nick Briant hes always on the Hurricanes or Wellingtons case and penalizes us all the time. I see the Chiefs got hammered again but their fans will just suck it up and get on with it - cheers hope you have a good weekend

Nor did you hear it from me when the sunwolves thumped the cheifs either. I think that result kind of puts your argument into perspective. Don’t preach to me from your high horse hoffmeister, with your “win/loose graciously” garbage. I’m certain you, just like your beloved AB’s, are just as guilty of condemning poor officiating when the shoe was on the other foot. Plus if you actually read all of what I said, you might have actually found that I said I realized the Brums would have “probably” lost regardless (there’s always a chance they could have won it too, had the officiating been on point), I’m just bitter that the hurricanes who don’t need an unfair advantage, got the unfair advantage. Just disrespectful towards your opponent who has made the travel. And to be frank, if you hadn’t been so snide about it I might have actually supported you on your claim for the same unfair decisions against the cheifs v brumbies the week before but because you come across like another arrogant kiwi, you can stick those considerations right up where the sun don’t shine.

Paddy and Podraic - I didnt see any comments like this last week when the Brumbies played the Chiefs in Canberra and won by a huge score - Oh of course they 'WON' and it was in Canberra - enough said . You guys need to open both eyes and learn not only how to win graciously but also how to lose graciously and not look for every excuse under the sun as to why u were badly done by - I didnt see the Chiefs moaning their heads off after last Sat - a lesson there.

Dingo’s whole Aussie adventure was a life lesson in never taking a job in anger in my humble opinion. Bitterness that he’d been overlooked for the AB job combined with a decades-long sense of injustice in being selected for a only handful of tests to produce the truly awful decision to take up John O’Neill’s offer. When he started losing with the Wallabies he said a lot of things he may now regret. The McCaw call could be one of them. I lived in CHCH back then, and many felt a great sense of injustice that Alan Hewson - the lightweight Wellington FB who with Stu Wilson and then Bernie Fraser made up a formidable back three - kept Dingo out of the ABs until the final stages of his playing career. He should have sucked it up and waited for another chance. Wales, Scotland or frankly any test team other than the Wallabies (yes even the Boks) could have been a stepping stone back to the top of the AB coaching queue. Instead, he went to the team kiwis are most sensitive to (chippy even!) and started trash talking. Even this die-hard Canterbury supporter can never forgive his misguided foray.

Woh love it, another one????

P.S. I would say beat them with "better play" but realistically you either have to pay off the ref or deal with the opposition paying off the ref. All I'm saying is get your bid in first and make it big. "Brilliant play" doesn't factor into the equation, its merely a lucky byproduct if the outcome of the game that hasn't been predetermined (in other words, outcome of game = predetermined, outcome of how the game will flow = less predictable and more on the ability of the players skill). Plus how does one formulate "brilliant play" when the ref blows the whistle before you even had a chance to formulate it or failed to blow the whistle when the opposition was squashing your "brilliant play"? NOPE the only way is to demoralize the kiwi's the same way they demoralize world rugby with their bias calls and blatant home field advantage. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, give them a taste of their own medicine. Force them to deal with bias officiating for 10 years (if not more) and see how they like it. See if the kiwi's hold their tongues then or if they still think its a case of just "sore looser syndrome". Why? Because revenge is a dish best served cold, that's why.

eye for an eye is a tooth for a tooth. "taste of their own medicine".

reality check on the level of corruption and bias is all. kiwis are good but without their precious AB's they are only as good as the rest.

The chiefs were crap last week slow at the breakdown rudderless and consequently put pressure on themselves which the brumbies exploited . Robbie deans rated him how many years ago exactly?

If the brumbies wanted to replicate the week before they should have had a word in the hurricanes coaches ear to play as crap as the chiefs did. But we hear this every time we beat a kiwi side " the tables have turned " A bit of a reality check i'm afraid.

Why don’t you instead wish the All Blacks get knocked out in the ¼’s by brilliant play? Wouldn’t that make it all the more sweeter? As for rigging the game in their favour, I’m off to Bunnings to get some more sandpaper...

"Wait, didn’t the Canes lose to the Sunwolves in 2018?" No, the Sunwolves lost badly FYI.

Wow Podaic what a load of self centered rubbish and hate towards NZ Rugby who have saved your skin more than once --- You just wern't good enough were you, but lets blame everyone except your own team for the loss - get over yourself -

With respect, the Brumbies played to the final whistle (respect), regardless of the fact that they had been shunted out of the game by the poor officiating from the outset. After thoroughly reviewing the first 10-11mins of the game (before the first points were scored), I came across some interesting stats. Within the 1st few seconds of the game a Brumbies player (Tom Banks) was ruled to be in touch when he actually kept the ball in play (1st bias call in Canes favor before points scored). Touch judge right there and on the spot but clearly a bad call upon review. Thus bias. Around the 1minute mark, Laumape goes for a run (after their bias line-out possession) and gets held in the tackle but breaks loose after another Canes player cleans out the Brumbies player. A Brumbies player was over the top of him, got semi cleaned out, which allowed for Laumape to get up and go again. Anywhere else in the world, that would be considered held in the tackle, a ruck formed (from the cleaning out player) and Laumape would have been penalized for not releasing the ball and going again after being held in the tackle. Thus bias. 1min 40sec mark. Canes player grabs a Brums player in the air (during a Brums line out) officials say nothing and play on, even though this happened in the Brumbies "red zone" and a penalty would have allowed an easy exit for the Brums...kiwi's can't have that on kiwi soil. Thus bias. @ 2mins and 20seconds, a Canes player lazily flops on the ruck (deemed to be entering from the side), which slows down Brumbies front foot ball. I wouldn't suggest a card this early in the game for such a hap hazard infringement (unless it was in the Canes red zone and the Brumbies would have otherwise scored) but a serious warning to the offending team would be justified and warrant a card if the behavior continued throughout the match. Fair call in the end. 3min 30sec mark. Canes force a fair turnover via holding Kuridrani up in the tackle. Canes scrum on their side of halfway. Fair call. 4min mark. Scrum collapse on the far side (far side to ref too). Upon 2nd and 3rd viewing of this scrum, the Canes #3 is clearly over extending and first to hit the ground but the officials, both on and off field, say nothing. Thus bias. 5min mark. Scrum collapses again on the same far side with the same #3 hitting the ground 1st but again, the officials say nothing. Thus bias. Ref then decides to move around to the side that is collapsing and officiate from there. Low and behold, the scrum stays up and ball comes out...Canes trying to milk a penalty anyone?!?!?!?! Nope, nobody says anything with regards to this blatant infringement and bias. 6 min mark. After 2 and a half minutes of wasted time in the Canes possession (literally nothing happening in the game for 2 and a half minutes other than increasing the Canes time with possession of the ball), it finally exits the scrum and is, again, dribbled into touch about 20m out from Brumbies line. So essentially, for those who fail to comprehend, the momentum and situation of the game has shifted dramatically from what should have been a clear penalty against the Canes on halfway for collapsing the scrum twice (and an inevitable march downfield by the Brumbies into the Canes 22...leading to possible first points of the game but not to be), is now a Brumbies line-out 20m from their try-line and under considerable pressure. See the point I'm making here?!?! BIAS! 6min 20sec mark. Canes give away a penalty for not rolling away, looked initially harsh but upon review was fair as the Canes player never released the Brumbies player and made no attempt, after the tackle, to roll away (chose to hold on and try to turn the Brumbies player and ended up getting in a bad position in the bottom of the ruck). Fair penalty. 7min 20 sec mark. Brumbies knock ball on, Canes play on but throw an intercept pass. Play brought back for Canes scrum. 8min 20sec mark. Canes scrum collapse again! This time on the #1 side yet again, the officials say nothing and allow the game to play on. Thus bias. Barrett gets scrappy ball and dribbles it into touch about 35m from the Brumbies try-line. 9min mark. Clean line out. No infringements. Lead to driving maul to halfway then Brumbies loose possession through the 1st breakdown (holding onto the ball). Fair call. 10 min mark. Canes opt for line-out and get within 10m of the Brumbies try-line. After a clean and fair line-out the Canes shift the ball to the backs. Canes 9 looks to have been shouldered before making a pass (by Brumbies winger) but officials rule play on. Close call as the defender couldn't pull out of tackle but did make an attempt to wrap the arms. Fair call. Brumbies turnover ball in breakdown during the same phase. Fair call. 11min mark. Brumbies make little progress up field trying to exit their half. They regather a box kick which takes them to their 10m line but Pocock throws a loose no-look pass, Coles intercepts and ends up scoring the first points of the game. Regardless of the blatant bias I've highlighted above, I still think the acting ref Nick Briant did an okay job of officiating the 1st half with as much fairness as he could, given his side-line officials were blatantly bias in their calls (much to the kiwi oligarchs dismay). Which is probably why he was hooked at halftime for an incompetent Argentine ref (on the weak basis of being mysteriously sick/injured.....because he was calling a somewhat "fair game"?!?!?!) who only made the kiwi orchestrated game bias all the more blatantly obvious and essentially ruined an okay contest. An okay contest which the Brumbies could have still won or at least made tight with a score like 19-8 at halftime and a decent set of officials.