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Is this the place where we get together to laugh at the Reds?
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@mariner4life and applaud the Sunwolves.
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@stargazer I think if they can find someone willing to pour money into the team and not care about losing cash, it will work.
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@taniwharugby said in Super Rugby News:
@stargazer I think if they can find someone willing to pour money into the team and not care about having it pinched, it will work.
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So Ben O'Keeffe is the ref for Canes v Reds this weekend.
The joke that is SANZAAR continues.
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@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby News:
So Ben O'Keeffe is the ref for Canes v Reds this weekend.
The joke that is SANZAAR continues.
And the Chiefs get Fraser 3 weeks in a row.
Hometown for the Blues-Crusaders game - put that win in the bank!
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@kiwimurph what have I missed... Why's this a joke?
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@bones Not sure whether that's @KiwiMurph's point, but it seems some people want O'Keefe to be penalised for all refereeing mistakes made in the Crusaders v Waratahs game, by not getting to officiate a game this weekend. Not sure why, as IMO the whole refereeing team (particularly the TMO) made mistakes. SANZAAR doesn't have the luxury to suspend them all though. Maybe it's useful to note that Jamie Nutbrown (AR in that game) and TMO Aaron Paterson have not been appointed for any of this week's games.
Edit: I should add that O'Keefe is a Wellingtonian. So appearance of neutrality is even weaker than last week. If he makes one mistake, the whole of Australia will start yelling about cheating again.
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@Bones @Stargazer so O'Keeffe a Kiwi makes some very dubious calls in a trans Ta$man game in NZ. So the very next week they assign him to a trans Ta$man game in NZ.....
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@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby News:
@Bones @Stargazer so O'Keeffe a Kiwi makes some very dubious calls in a trans Ta$man game in NZ. So the very next week they assign him to a trans Ta$man game in NZ.....
What SANZAAR are saying with that is that neutral referees are not required. If they all of a sudden changed to neutral then they've admitted that it is a bias problem, rather than a shite ref problem. What should have happened is that he was given a week off to improve his reffing!
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@machpants
The referee standards in SANZAAR and World Rugby in general is through the floor. People want neutral refs but forget that NZ have by far the most refs on the panel this year. Australia haven't had more than 3 refs in what feels like 10 years. South Africa, the usual standard bearers havve 4 refs this year of which 2 is very inexperienced (1 whom is just dire) and 1 whos is rather dire. So that leaves only Jaco Peyper the ref a high number of games.I think its about time SANZAAR centralise the referee development as clearly the individual unions (AUS and SA in particular) standards has slipped
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@machpants Maybe O'Keefe wasn't deemed the one that needed improving (at least, not more than others)? Unfortunately, SANZAAR never publishes referee evaluations, so we don't know why Nutbrown and Patterson don't feature on the referees list for this weekend, but maybe they - and not O'Keefe - were considered the ones who were responsible for most refereeing mistakes in the Crusaders v Waratahs game? (See my previous posts)
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@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby News:
@Bones @Stargazer so O'Keeffe a Kiwi makes some very dubious calls in a trans Ta$man game in NZ. So the very next week they assign him to a trans Ta$man game in NZ.....
I don't see why this should change given the lack of action against SA assistant ref & TMO over the last few years.
Week in, week out they prove they are biased as hell with continual home town calls / TMO interference. I'm actually convinced it's in their mandate.
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