RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D)
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I’m no fan of Cheika but I think he has a point. The referees are acting like startled rabbits, second-guessing themselves and appearing terrified of crossing their increasingly legalistic overlords. The game is being ruined by excessive scrutiny by lawyers to the point that referees aren’t making decisions based on the game in front of them but by how they think their World Rugby overlords will see it.
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@MrDenmore said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
I’m no fan of Cheika but I think he has a point. The referees are acting like startled rabbits, second-guessing themselves and appearing terrified of crossing their increasingly legalistic overlords. The game is being ruined by excessive scrutiny by lawyers to the point that referees aren’t making decisions based on the game in front of them but by how they think their World Rugby overlords will see it.
I’m in many ways a very petty man and one of the ways that manifests itself is when another team or it’s supporters -particularly Irelaland and South Africa and to a lesser extent Australia and England bleat about refereeing decisions. After the asinine behaviour of their fans and press in the wake of the 2007 quarter final to any suggestion that Barnes had a mare the likes of Cheika can help themselves to a big warm cup of GFYs.
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Well that game raised another curly scenario for the refs/law makers to deal with.
If a tackler is coming at you upright and your instinct tells you to protect yourself from head injury you should get leeway for instinctively raising your arm.
Apparently you can’t fend with your elbow even to protect your own head and the craziest thing is that if that elbow had connected with the head the RC would have gone to the player protecting himself from poor technique.
Cheika would have also suffered an extreme head injury as he head butted the desk.Hate to say it but clown and Hooper had this one right.
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@Crucial said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
Well that game raised another curly scenario for the refs/law makers to deal with.
If a tackler is coming at you upright and your instinct tells you to protect yourself from head injury you should get leeway for instinctively raising your arm.
Apparently you can’t fend with your elbow even to protect your own head and the craziest thing is that if that elbow had connected with the head the RC would have gone to the player protecting himself from poor technique.
Cheika would have also suffered an extreme head injury as he head butted the desk.Hate to say it but clown and Hooper had this one right.
And that's where the interpretation muddies the water.
You saw/say fending with the elbow to protect, others saw/say fending with the elbow to inflict.
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@MiketheSnow said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
@Crucial said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
Well that game raised another curly scenario for the refs/law makers to deal with.
If a tackler is coming at you upright and your instinct tells you to protect yourself from head injury you should get leeway for instinctively raising your arm.
Apparently you can’t fend with your elbow even to protect your own head and the craziest thing is that if that elbow had connected with the head the RC would have gone to the player protecting himself from poor technique.
Cheika would have also suffered an extreme head injury as he head butted the desk.Hate to say it but clown and Hooper had this one right.
And that's where the interpretation muddies the water.
You saw/say fending with the elbow to protect, others saw/say fending with the elbow to inflict.
Agree that you can interpret what happened two ways but when you look at the full circumstance it was the so called “tackler” that created the situation by steaming in upright and creating risk of a head clash. Looked like instinctive protection because of that.
If he had been lining up a decent tackle then the elbow would definitely have been out of order. -
I didn't think the penalty for the fend was a big deal. You can't raise a forearm to the throat -- and that's always been the case. As with tackles nowadays, the "it slipped up" defence no longer applies. You fend with the hand, not the forearm.
Should be an on-field decision though. If it's not terrible enough for the ref to notice, it's play on.
Every game will have a poor decision or two. Many worse than that.
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Also of concern is that the officials seem mostly unable to not pass a sanction on every tmo review.
It's as though " no, just an accident, resume play" is not even an allowed as we watch them pathetically build a narrative to keep the legal teams and the "optics" satisfied while rugby people the world over think "wtf"
Great progress is made with vague rules that are only discovered after the fact - said no one ever.
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@booboo said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
@sparky said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
Some heroes for Wales tonight. Wyn Jones 23 tackles, Navidi 15 tackles and no misses, Gareth Davies made over 110 running metres from half back.
Because everyone loves a corrector ...
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That's "Jones" or "Alan Wyn" ... mot "Wynn Jones".
His given names are "Alan Wyn".
His surname is "Jones".
I'm helping ...
Umm, yeah, but it's Alun.
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World Rugby should be concerned that Garces and Poite seem to be a part of many of the more controversial moments in games over the past few years.
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@taniwharugby said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
World Rugby should be concerned that Garces and Poite seem to be a part of many of the more controversial moments in games over the past few years.
Whilst I am on correcting - I thought they were Faeces and Prat?
They are both terrible refs but I don't think the outcome would have been different in this case and it was a great game to watch.
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@MiketheSnow said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
@Crucial said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
Well that game raised another curly scenario for the refs/law makers to deal with.
If a tackler is coming at you upright and your instinct tells you to protect yourself from head injury you should get leeway for instinctively raising your arm.
Apparently you can’t fend with your elbow even to protect your own head and the craziest thing is that if that elbow had connected with the head the RC would have gone to the player protecting himself from poor technique.
Cheika would have also suffered an extreme head injury as he head butted the desk.Hate to say it but clown and Hooper had this one right.
And that's where the interpretation muddies the water.
You saw/say fending with the elbow to protect, others saw/say fending with the elbow to inflict.
Over to the team at SA Rugby magazine 😎
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@taniwharugby said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
World Rugby should be concerned that Garces and Poite seem to be a part of many of the more controversial moments in games over the past few years.
This is Skeen, though.
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@NTA he is, but in the middle they could have over-ruled him...
I know it isnt always thier fault, but they are still somehow involved, like controversy follows them....
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@NTA said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
@MiketheSnow said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
@Crucial said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
Well that game raised another curly scenario for the refs/law makers to deal with.
If a tackler is coming at you upright and your instinct tells you to protect yourself from head injury you should get leeway for instinctively raising your arm.
Apparently you can’t fend with your elbow even to protect your own head and the craziest thing is that if that elbow had connected with the head the RC would have gone to the player protecting himself from poor technique.
Cheika would have also suffered an extreme head injury as he head butted the desk.Hate to say it but clown and Hooper had this one right.
And that's where the interpretation muddies the water.
You saw/say fending with the elbow to protect, others saw/say fending with the elbow to inflict.
Over to the team at SA Rugby magazine 😎
I know the blatant hand on Barrett’s shoulder wasn’t called a penalty. Farcical.
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Only just saw footage of the “forearm”. What a fucking joke.
This RWC has already been a disaster with these ridiculous interpretations and it’s only going to get worse.
It was entirely predictable though. WR has been trying to kill the game since introducing this crap after the last RWC. The fact Red cards (or at least calls for red) are now common where they used to be reserved for the dirtiest of plays is a huge problem.
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@taniwharugby said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
World Rugby should be concerned that Garces and Poite seem to be a part of many of the more controversial moments in games over the past few years.
One of the more astounding things was that Pocockwomble had to talk to Poite at halftime to clarify the words he was using at the rucks. I know there are language differences but that implies that his communication was inconsistent and ambiguous. For a ref of his experience and standing that is quite incredible.
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@Crucial said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
@taniwharugby said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
World Rugby should be concerned that Garces and Poite seem to be a part of many of the more controversial moments in games over the past few years.
One of the more astounding things was that Pocockwomble had to talk to Poite at halftime to clarify the words he was using at the rucks. I know there are language differences but that implies that his communication was inconsistent and ambiguous. For a ref of his experience and standing that is quite incredible.
Talking/coaching refs are a stupid idea IMO anyway. Very anglocentric. Very mextedy.
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@NTA said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
@MiketheSnow said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
@Crucial said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
Well that game raised another curly scenario for the refs/law makers to deal with.
If a tackler is coming at you upright and your instinct tells you to protect yourself from head injury you should get leeway for instinctively raising your arm.
Apparently you can’t fend with your elbow even to protect your own head and the craziest thing is that if that elbow had connected with the head the RC would have gone to the player protecting himself from poor technique.
Cheika would have also suffered an extreme head injury as he head butted the desk.Hate to say it but clown and Hooper had this one right.
And that's where the interpretation muddies the water.
You saw/say fending with the elbow to protect, others saw/say fending with the elbow to inflict.
Over to the team at SA Rugby magazine 😎
And we all know their point wasn't to suggest that neither should be a penalty.
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@Crucial said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
@MiketheSnow said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
@Crucial said in RWC: Australia v Wales (Pool D):
Well that game raised another curly scenario for the refs/law makers to deal with.
If a tackler is coming at you upright and your instinct tells you to protect yourself from head injury you should get leeway for instinctively raising your arm.
Apparently you can’t fend with your elbow even to protect your own head and the craziest thing is that if that elbow had connected with the head the RC would have gone to the player protecting himself from poor technique.
Cheika would have also suffered an extreme head injury as he head butted the desk.Hate to say it but clown and Hooper had this one right.
And that's where the interpretation muddies the water.
You saw/say fending with the elbow to protect, others saw/say fending with the elbow to inflict.
Agree that you can interpret what happened two ways but when you look at the full circumstance it was the so called “tackler” that created the situation by steaming in upright and creating risk of a head clash. Looked like instinctive protection because of that.
If he had been lining up a decent tackle then the elbow would definitely have been out of order.I disagree with that. Standing up straight in the tackle and looking to wrap the ball and the player is a perfectly legitimate technique...
The issue here is that he's pretty much the 1st person in the history of the game that's been pinged for leading into the tackle with his forearm.. it's always just been ignored previously, and it seems like it's a bit of a gray area.
