Pumas v Wallabies, Twickenham
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I for one am shocked that a team whos coach is known for breaking doors while having a tantrum and abusing officials is involved in an incident like this.
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@jegga said in Pumas v Wallabies, Twickenham:
I for one am shocked that a team whos coach is known for breaking doors while having a tantrum and abusing officials is involved in an incident like this.
I watched a fair bit of the game. Aussies appear to be as undisciplined as Cheika - gobbing off, shaking head, disagreeing with refs, niggling and swinging arms. They are not doing themselves any favours with referees or neutral fans.
Reputations take a long time to go away, particularly when they are just playing stupidly. FFS, if you just got someone back from 10 in the bin, don't get in and take someone's head off straight away. Cheika reckoned they were unlucky. He's more delusional than most.
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Australia took advantage of Argentina's mistakes. Argentina try to play like the All Blacks but just don't quite have the skill yet. Some of their decision making just isn't quite up to it. There wasn't really that much in the Phipps incident - it was a penalty and nothing more. Hardly worth of a headline.
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It was a douche act and not comparable to the Brown incident. What was Phipps going to do, take a quick scrum by himself and surprise everyone?
I'd say he's lucky to get away with a warning after trying to maim members of the crowd with stray boots earlier in the season.
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The guy deliberately runs into the way of the ball, and should have stayed away from it. Maybe he was trying to be helpful and get the ball, but that's not his fucking job. How he's going to do that with two hands full is another question.
Here is an Argie medic (maybe the same guy - hard to tell from the angle) getting involved right after they scored a try.
What the fuck is he even doing there? If he spotted an injury in that pile of bodies he's some kind of fucking Jesus-level miracle prick.
Take water, come onto the field during breaks or for immediate medical assistance. Otherwise, stay the fuck away from anything not involving welfare of your own players.
He (Phipps) got a warning from WR. What is the medic going to get? Particularly after the Argies have been diving like little bitches the last few years to try and get penalties.
Fuck all, I bet. Same as the Argie winger who ran in and started on Phipps.
Some of you guys are seriously off your bikkies with this holier-than-thou attitude. So what if Phipps is a prick? He's a halfback - that's his job.
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@NTA What was Phipps hoping to achieve? What is the problem with the physio getting the ball during a break in play when nothing is happening? Phipps could have done nothing at all if he got the ball first...apart from walk slowly back to where play was to restart.
If it was anyone else pushing over an Aussie physio, then fair dues.
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Can you imagine the wailing that would come from the Aussie rugby experts/media if this was an AB pushing over a trainer? There would be special pieces about how the ABs have lost their way and are arrogant/ lack humility. It was a dick move just like pegging someones boot away or a trainer trying to punch a ball to prevent a quick throw.
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@pukunui said in Pumas v Wallabies, Twickenham:
Can you imagine the wailing that would come from the Aussie rugby experts/media if this was an AB pushing over a trainer? There would be special pieces about how the ABs have lost their way and are arrogant/ lack humility. It was a dick move just like pegging someones boot away or a trainer trying to punch a ball to prevent a quick throw.
Or an injured player (say, Liam Messam) acting as a waterboy but coming on the field to join in punch-ups?
I'd imagine the wailing would be similar to the wailing on this thread, about our thuggish coach and thuggish attitude. The usual stuff, really.
