All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2
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@Chris-B. Well I maybe a tad optimistic about how good your backs are, I would have backed them to defend short handed
For the life of me I can't understand this 'protecting the player' bullshit being dished out by the referees and comms at every turn. Seems its more like a fingertip to the head is red, but charge on a player on the ground(who is also retreating from the tackle) the head not being the point of contact and its play on?
I mean out of the two incidents, SoB on Naholo and Vunipola on Barret, the other had intent, no arms, and a real chance for the receiving end to get injured, whereas Naholo was unlucky to get a forearm to the head.
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O'Bruen cited so the process worked.
Mea culpa for thinking it wasn't so bad as it clearly was.
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O'Brien's a good christian man isn't he? Attended the same church as Mealamu today.
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@SimonAdd_2 said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
@taniwharugby you mean the second penalty against the tackler? I can't remember the first.
I've always hated it. Up there with diving over the top of a ruck to score a try for me. Leaves the defenders no legal recourse and just feels like a loophole in the laws that defies the spirit of the game.
my bad, it was the Fiji-Wales game last week where a Fijian was pinged when a Welshman jumped to take a pass (mentioned in post above)
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Having to penalise the tackler is a seriously moronic rule. So everyone jumps when you get to the gainline like Sinckler and you are through the first line of defense. Mind you the fatty can jump, which is probably the most surprising thing.....
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This is jumping into the tackle.
Don't think yesterday was remotely similar really.
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@Billy-Tell said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
This is jumping into the tackle.
Don't think yesterday was remotely similar really.
This is jumping over the tackle.
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@Samurai-Jack said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
Having to penalise the tackler is a seriously moronic rule. So everyone jumps when you get to the gainline like Sinckler and you are through the first line of defense. Mind you the fatty can jump, which is probably the most surprising thing.....
We were always taught it is illegal to jump into a tackle. I don't think that was the case with Sinckler, more that he was reaching for a poor pass. Not sure what Faumiuna could have done in that instance. If the idea is for him to wait until Sinckler is back to earth then that sends a message that jumping into tackles is a good percentage move.
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@Catogrande said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
@Samurai-Jack said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
Having to penalise the tackler is a seriously moronic rule. So everyone jumps when you get to the gainline like Sinckler and you are through the first line of defense. Mind you the fatty can jump, which is probably the most surprising thing.....
We were always taught it is illegal to jump into a tackle. I don't think that was the case with Sinckler, more that he was reaching for a poor pass. Not sure what Faumiuna could have done in that instance. If the idea is for him to wait until Sinckler is back to earth then that sends a message that jumping into tackles is a good percentage move.
Yep, look out for entire teams prancing about taking passes in the air like, er, springboks or, um, wallabies. Or other leaping and jumping things.
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fuckin spot on @mariner4life it's not our finest work. it's like as soon as SBW's card is so obviously deserved that it can't really be questioned (though some still try), people are going with 'well they should have got one too' as if it is something that happens all the time. shit some people seem to think they should have got two reds ffs.
it was not the ref's fault. SBW deserved red, vunipola didn't, nor did o'brien - so just grow a pair and take the loss. they played the better rugby and scored two tries to fucken none. -
@Bones arms used, angle of approach, accidental, player crouching. just a standard tackle assist that unfortunately ended badly - as happens in rugby pretty frequently.
if he had come in on the angle like SBW and put a shoulder into the head, then that's a different story.
