The Underarm Ball
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@booboo there's a great photo in Hadlees "rhythm and swing " showing Matthew's catching our man on the boundary with a foot squashing the rope.
No Photoshop in them days.
Matthews was pretty harmless though. He was equally strange to opposition and teammates alike
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@Siam said in The Underarm Ball:
@booboo there's a great photo in Hadlees "rhythm and swing " showing Matthew's catching our man on the boundary with a foot squashing the rope.
No Photoshop in them days.
Matthews was pretty harmless though. He was equally strange to opposition and teammates alike
That was at Eden Park. I remember that the cameras captured it all, but there was no review by the umps back then and they went on the word of the player. It was the big old 3 inch mooring rope type boundary and Matthews nearly twisted his ankle while taking, and claiming, the catch.
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@canefan said in The Underarm Ball:
Dier the Liar was another example of the Aussie win at all costs attitude
To put this in some context though, Dyer never played for Australia again. In 1978 Andy Haden still had 7 more years in the All Black jersey.
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@Crucial said in The Underarm Ball:
@Siam said in The Underarm Ball:
@booboo there's a great photo in Hadlees "rhythm and swing " showing Matthew's catching our man on the boundary with a foot squashing the rope.
No Photoshop in them days.
Matthews was pretty harmless though. He was equally strange to opposition and teammates alike
That was at Eden Park. I remember that the cameras captured it all, but there was no review by the umps back then and they went on the word of the player. It was the big old 3 inch mooring rope type boundary and Matthews nearly twisted his ankle while taking, and claiming, the catch.
Aussies. Been doing it since Adam.Also to put this in some context. The boundary rope was a new thing in 1986.
You could lean against a boundary fence and take a catch, but you couldn't stand on a boundary rope and take a catch. They didn't use a rope in Australia at that time. Even 2 years later by the 87/88 WSC there were no ropes used in Australia (remember Dipak Patel taking a boundary catch at Perth inside the fence but behind the line of the wheelie sight screen).
Why the hell Eden Park had a rope 1 foot from the boundary fence ? learner wobbles.
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@Rapido said in The Underarm Ball:
@canefan said in The Underarm Ball:
Dier the Liar was another example of the Aussie win at all costs attitude
To put this in some context though, Dyer never played for Australia again. In 1978 Andy Haden still had 7 more years in the All Black jersey.
It pains me to defend Haden but the penalty was against Geoff Wheel on Frank Oliver . I know there probably isn’t a single Welsh rugby fan that accepts that though in much the same way Irish rugby fans think Umaga and Mealamu deliberately took out BOD because he disrespected the Haka/was such a threat .
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@jegga said in The Underarm Ball:
@Rapido said in The Underarm Ball:
@canefan said in The Underarm Ball:
Dier the Liar was another example of the Aussie win at all costs attitude
To put this in some context though, Dyer never played for Australia again. In 1978 Andy Haden still had 7 more years in the All Black jersey.
It pains me to defend Haden but the penalty was against Geoff Wheel on Frank Oliver . I know there probably isn’t a single Welsh rugby fan that accepts that though in much the same way Irish rugby fans think Umaga and Mealamu deliberately took out BOD because he disrespected the Haka/was such a threat .
They both dived, Haden has admitted that. It was pre-meditated.
Oliver, and Quittenden and Haden, just have the good fortune that Wheel also used his elbow to muddy the water and allow us to rationalise the event. But, we cheated.
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@Rapido said in The Underarm Ball:
@jegga said in The Underarm Ball:
@Rapido said in The Underarm Ball:
@canefan said in The Underarm Ball:
Dier the Liar was another example of the Aussie win at all costs attitude
To put this in some context though, Dyer never played for Australia again. In 1978 Andy Haden still had 7 more years in the All Black jersey.
It pains me to defend Haden but the penalty was against Geoff Wheel on Frank Oliver . I know there probably isn’t a single Welsh rugby fan that accepts that though in much the same way Irish rugby fans think Umaga and Mealamu deliberately took out BOD because he disrespected the Haka/was such a threat .
They both dived, Haden has admitted that. It was pre-meditated.
Oliver, and Quittenden and Haden, just have the good fortune that Wheel also used his elbow. We cheated.
As the article says they thought the Welsh had been cheating their arses off in the lineout and getting away with it . Then they got called on it and it cost them the game.
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@jegga said in The Underarm Ball:
@Rapido said in The Underarm Ball:
@jegga said in The Underarm Ball:
@Rapido said in The Underarm Ball:
@canefan said in The Underarm Ball:
Dier the Liar was another example of the Aussie win at all costs attitude
To put this in some context though, Dyer never played for Australia again. In 1978 Andy Haden still had 7 more years in the All Black jersey.
It pains me to defend Haden but the penalty was against Geoff Wheel on Frank Oliver . I know there probably isn’t a single Welsh rugby fan that accepts that though in much the same way Irish rugby fans think Umaga and Mealamu deliberately took out BOD because he disrespected the Haka/was such a threat .
They both dived, Haden has admitted that. It was pre-meditated.
Oliver, and Quittenden and Haden, just have the good fortune that Wheel also used his elbow. We cheated.
As the article says they thought the Welsh had been cheating their arses off in the lineout and getting away with it . Then they got called on it and it cost them the game.
Does the article mention how they practiced it before the match?
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@Rapido said in The Underarm Ball:
@jegga said in The Underarm Ball:
@Rapido said in The Underarm Ball:
@jegga said in The Underarm Ball:
@Rapido said in The Underarm Ball:
@canefan said in The Underarm Ball:
Dier the Liar was another example of the Aussie win at all costs attitude
To put this in some context though, Dyer never played for Australia again. In 1978 Andy Haden still had 7 more years in the All Black jersey.
It pains me to defend Haden but the penalty was against Geoff Wheel on Frank Oliver . I know there probably isn’t a single Welsh rugby fan that accepts that though in much the same way Irish rugby fans think Umaga and Mealamu deliberately took out BOD because he disrespected the Haka/was such a threat .
They both dived, Haden has admitted that. It was pre-meditated.
Oliver, and Quittenden and Haden, just have the good fortune that Wheel also used his elbow. We cheated.
As the article says they thought the Welsh had been cheating their arses off in the lineout and getting away with it . Then they got called on it and it cost them the game.
Does the article mention how they practiced it before the match?
Yep . There’s a longer article about how they got it from a Taranaki coach who used it to penalise King Country out of a game in Pinetree last game against them . I’ll see if I can find it , it’s a decent read.
Found it. The one armed ref was also the black caps bus driver, Andrew Jones used to tell a story about almost shitting himself looking over the bus drivers shoulder to see he was rolling a cigarette with his only hand while steering the bus with his knees through the mount vic tunnel
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10353789
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@jegga said in The Underarm Ball:
@Rapido said in The Underarm Ball:
@jegga said in The Underarm Ball:
@Rapido said in The Underarm Ball:
@canefan said in The Underarm Ball:
Dier the Liar was another example of the Aussie win at all costs attitude
To put this in some context though, Dyer never played for Australia again. In 1978 Andy Haden still had 7 more years in the All Black jersey.
It pains me to defend Haden but the penalty was against Geoff Wheel on Frank Oliver . I know there probably isn’t a single Welsh rugby fan that accepts that though in much the same way Irish rugby fans think Umaga and Mealamu deliberately took out BOD because he disrespected the Haka/was such a threat .
They both dived, Haden has admitted that. It was pre-meditated.
Oliver, and Quittenden and Haden, just have the good fortune that Wheel also used his elbow. We cheated.
As the article says they thought the Welsh had been cheating their arses off in the lineout and getting away with it . Then they got called on it and it cost them the game.
Try to justify it if you like, but still a disgraceful act by Haden.
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@SammyC said in The Underarm Ball:
@jegga said in The Underarm Ball:
@Rapido said in The Underarm Ball:
@jegga said in The Underarm Ball:
@Rapido said in The Underarm Ball:
@canefan said in The Underarm Ball:
Dier the Liar was another example of the Aussie win at all costs attitude
To put this in some context though, Dyer never played for Australia again. In 1978 Andy Haden still had 7 more years in the All Black jersey.
It pains me to defend Haden but the penalty was against Geoff Wheel on Frank Oliver . I know there probably isn’t a single Welsh rugby fan that accepts that though in much the same way Irish rugby fans think Umaga and Mealamu deliberately took out BOD because he disrespected the Haka/was such a threat .
They both dived, Haden has admitted that. It was pre-meditated.
Oliver, and Quittenden and Haden, just have the good fortune that Wheel also used his elbow. We cheated.
As the article says they thought the Welsh had been cheating their arses off in the lineout and getting away with it . Then they got called on it and it cost them the game.
Try to justify it if you like, but still a disgraceful act by Haden.
Can we all at least agree he’s a prick?
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@Rapido said in The Underarm Ball:
@canefan said in The Underarm Ball:
Dier the Liar was another example of the Aussie win at all costs attitude
To put this in some context though, Dyer never played for Australia again. In 1978 Andy Haden still had 7 more years in the All Black jersey.
Yeah but Andy wore the black jersey. So it's all good
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@jegga said in The Underarm Ball:
@Rapido said in The Underarm Ball:
@jegga said in The Underarm Ball:
@Rapido said in The Underarm Ball:
@canefan said in The Underarm Ball:
Dier the Liar was another example of the Aussie win at all costs attitude
To put this in some context though, Dyer never played for Australia again. In 1978 Andy Haden still had 7 more years in the All Black jersey.
It pains me to defend Haden but the penalty was against Geoff Wheel on Frank Oliver . I know there probably isn’t a single Welsh rugby fan that accepts that though in much the same way Irish rugby fans think Umaga and Mealamu deliberately took out BOD because he disrespected the Haka/was such a threat .
They both dived, Haden has admitted that. It was pre-meditated.
Oliver, and Quittenden and Haden, just have the good fortune that Wheel also used his elbow. We cheated.
As the article says they thought the Welsh had been cheating their arses off in the lineout and getting away with it . Then they got called on it and it cost them the game.
Simulation in rugby?
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Two things have struck me as strange about the underarms place in history...
From the NZ side... I find it strange that while the underarm is one of the seminal moments in our sporting history I don't really think as a sporting nation we have a hang up or complex about it (and we do have our hang ups; see Dalton, Andy). Living in Aus I've listed to hours of chrip and chat between people from both sides of the Ta$man and I don't think I've heard a Kiwi bring it up as a sore point once. Even in this thread the responses are pretty dispassionate. I'm sure in the immediate aftermath it was, but I've never found it to be.
From the Aus side... I find it really strange that no one has ever really tried to defend the underarm. I mean... it was legal at the time. It was the very definition of pushing things to the line but without going over. Australia do tend to do this when they get caught going maybe too close (or too far over) the line. Same with the ball tampering in South Africa, once caught no one tried to say "Dozens of players have been caught in the past year by the ICC including ABdV who is captaining this other mob - if you think we are the only ones doing this you are kidding yourself".
That said it is probably the most concise example of the two nation's respective sporting psyches there has ever been.
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@Rapido said in The Underarm Ball:
@jegga said in The Underarm Ball:
@Rapido said in The Underarm Ball:
@canefan said in The Underarm Ball:
Dier the Liar was another example of the Aussie win at all costs attitude
To put this in some context though, Dyer never played for Australia again. In 1978 Andy Haden still had 7 more years in the All Black jersey.
It pains me to defend Haden but the penalty was against Geoff Wheel on Frank Oliver . I know there probably isn’t a single Welsh rugby fan that accepts that though in much the same way Irish rugby fans think Umaga and Mealamu deliberately took out BOD because he disrespected the Haka/was such a threat .
They both dived, Haden has admitted that. It was pre-meditated.
Oliver, and Quittenden and Haden, just have the good fortune that Wheel also used his elbow to muddy the water and allow us to rationalise the event. But, we cheated.
No sympathy for the Weksh thugs.
Two words: Fenwick, Curry.
Karma's a bitch huh boyos?
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@SammyC said in The Underarm Ball:
@jegga said in The Underarm Ball:
@Rapido said in The Underarm Ball:
@jegga said in The Underarm Ball:
@Rapido said in The Underarm Ball:
@canefan said in The Underarm Ball:
Dier the Liar was another example of the Aussie win at all costs attitude
To put this in some context though, Dyer never played for Australia again. In 1978 Andy Haden still had 7 more years in the All Black jersey.
It pains me to defend Haden but the penalty was against Geoff Wheel on Frank Oliver . I know there probably isn’t a single Welsh rugby fan that accepts that though in much the same way Irish rugby fans think Umaga and Mealamu deliberately took out BOD because he disrespected the Haka/was such a threat .
They both dived, Haden has admitted that. It was pre-meditated.
Oliver, and Quittenden and Haden, just have the good fortune that Wheel also used his elbow. We cheated.
As the article says they thought the Welsh had been cheating their arses off in the lineout and getting away with it . Then they got called on it and it cost them the game.
Try to justify it if you like, but still a disgraceful act by Haden.
Define disgraceful.
Play acting
Breaking a guy's jaw and ending his careerHmm
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@rotated said in The Underarm Ball:
Two things have struck me as strange about the underarms place in history...
From the NZ side... I find it strange that while the underarm is one of the seminal moments in our sporting history I don't really think as a sporting nation we have a hang up or complex about it (and we do have our hang ups; see Dalton, Andy). Living in Aus I've listed to hours of chrip and chat between people from both sides of the Ta$man and I don't think I've heard a Kiwi bring it up as a sore point once. Even in this thread the responses are pretty dispassionate. I'm sure in the immediate aftermath it was, but I've never found it to be.
It used to be. Was the go to taunt for years
(Out of interest how old are you? Im 50 so 12 in at the time)
