Blues v Rebels
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@akan004 Exactly if you watched both Breakdown which is the NZ version and the guys on Fox,the NZ boys are always balanced when it comes to assessing each game and will give credit to a visiting team,but unfortunately for the guys on a Fox impartiality goes totally out the window,I guess when your getting torn a new one week in and week out,you will look for any little bit of light.
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@steven-harris said in Blues vs. Rebels:
@akan004 Exactly if you watched both Breakdown which is the NZ version and the guys on Fox,the NZ boys are always balanced when it comes to assessing each game and will give credit to a visiting team,but unfortunately for the guys on a Fox impartiality goes totally out the window,I guess when your getting torn a new one week in and week out,you will look for any little bit of light.
Agreed Steven. I think to be fair to Barbarian, my opening paragraph did come across as a bit of a whinge which wasn't my intention at all. The Blues were well beaten. The main point of my post was to take aim at the foxsports guys.
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@akan004 who are ‘you guys’???
Fuck right off mate. The only bloke I see whinging about the ref here is you.
This business of painting entire nations as sore losers/whingers is ridiculous. Every nation has their share of dickheads who can’t cop when a ref makes a blunder.
Nobody is perfect in this regard, and throwing stones like that just makes you look like a fool.
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@barbarian said in Blues vs. Rebels:
@akan004 who are ‘you guys’???
Fuck right off mate. The only bloke I see whinging about the ref here is you.
Not true. You managed to sneak in a whinge about the ref from a few weeks ago in your first post, in case you had not noticed.
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The Blues lost flanker Dalton Papali'i to a likely hamstring strain in the 18th minute, and Umaga admitted it "doesn't look good".
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@akan004 My point was whinging about refs is stupid, because it will always swing both ways.
I didn’t whinge about the ref in Saders/Tahs at the time for that reason. I’m trying to stop completely. Because refs give and they take away.
The circle of refereeing life. Hakuna Matata.
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@barbarian said in Blues vs. Rebels:
@akan004 My point was whinging about refs is stupid, because it will always swing both ways.
I didn’t whinge about the ref in Saders/Tahs at the time for that reason. I’m trying to stop completely. Because refs give and they take away.
The circle of refereeing life. Hakuna Matata.
Brave to try and go zen on the refs. I'm a bit like cricket - I don't mind wrong decisions so much - it's the bad decisions that kill me. It seems to me the quality of rugby refereeing is at an all time low, and they are not helped by being given appallingly bad laws to use - probably unrefereeable laws to be fair.
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@barbarian said in Blues vs. Rebels:
@akan004 said in Blues vs. Rebels:
As expected, not a word from the Foxsports clowns about how every call went the Rebels way. Nothing about the forward pass leading up to the first try or the side entry to prevent a certain Blues try. Had it been the other way around...
As for Tana, show some class and step down you useless prick.
Edit: Now they are having a whinge about the Samu issue. Really hope Ireland tear them a new one over the next few weeks.
Boo fucking hoo. The Blues played horribly and didn’t deserve to win, end of.
After the Tahs got the shaft against the Saders we were due a bit of luck in NZ.
I agree the Rebels got the rub of the green, but that’s rugby. There were no calls I thought were particularly aggregious.
Riiight.
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@barbarian said in Blues vs. Rebels:
@akan004 who are ‘you guys’???
Fuck right off mate. The only bloke I see whinging about the ref here is you.
This business of painting entire nations as sore losers/whingers is ridiculous. Every nation has their share of dickheads who can’t cop when a ref makes a blunder.
Nobody is perfect in this regard, and throwing stones like that just makes you look like a fool.
Isn't that @akan004 's point?
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@tim said in Blues vs. Rebels:
The Tahs did get shafted by the ref in that game.
They got a couple of pretty awful calls go against them at crucial times. They got a couple go their way too.
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@tim not saying they didn't get bad calls (a couple of shockers). But it wasn't exclusive.
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@crucial said in Blues vs. Rebels:
I'll get accused of white knighting but questioning the decency of a person is getting a bit carried away surely?
@crucial I'll remind you of all the things you said about Justin Marshall, Reuben Thorne, Caleb Ralph et al. There is no moral highground.
