England vs All Blacks
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Deliberate decision by Grces not to ping Ofa. The ball was free and he wasn't slowing it or impeding a realistic option.
Even if he was, it was consistent. There were times when AS looked open side, couldn't pass there because of an offside pom and played blindside as well. -
Can we talk about what a dour fuckwit Barnes is a commentator?
His dreary, dad, my-wife-just-left-me tone of voice is very poor gor broadcasting. He offers very very little in terms of insight. And he is shameless in his opinion changing on the fly.
Read taking the scrum was another bad decision by a captain/team making a habit of bad decisions when we are under pressure. After we scored the try it was a great decision by the captain. Reverse when england went the corner and came up with zilch.
Fuck up you borin short neckless fuckwit. Where is that clip from 2011 again?
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@rapido said in England vs All Blacks:
@akan004 said in England vs All Blacks:
I don't think Shag will be too happy with Ofa for just lying on their side of the ruck towards the end of the match just outside their 22. He made no attempt to roll away. Another ref could have easily penalised him for that and it would have been 3 points to them and game over. Terrible discipline on his part.
It took me 79 minutes to get worked up enough to yell at the TV, that was the moment. Ofa lying there like a stiff corpse.
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@majorrage nah not me fella, you. Pretty damn sad you can't enjoy a perfectly legit win by your team because you feel a need to pander to the righteous opposition. Especially when it's for such an incorrect reason.
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@canefan said in England vs All Blacks:
Difficult to see from that shot but that "last man's foot" at the time looked to be the first man's foot - ie an AB. Not sure whether that makes any difference or not. Notwithstanding that though I have to agree that Lawes was just offside.
I think the difference on the day was our lineout not functioning in the second half added to which Retallick went into overdrive. Just couldn't get any decent possession.
Well done to NZ, winning a game that could so easily have gotten away from them. Many plus points for England though, we looked a much better team than last week - well we did for the first half anyway.
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@catogrande said in England vs All Blacks:
@canefan said in England vs All Blacks:
Difficult to see from that shot but that "last man's foot" at the time looked to be the first man's foot - ie an AB. Not sure whether that makes any difference or not. Notwithstanding that though I have to agree that Lawes was just offside.
I think the difference on the day was our lineout not functioning in the second half added to which Retallick went into overdrive. Just couldn't get any decent possession.
Well done to NZ, winning a game that could so easily have gotten away from them. Many plus points for England though, we looked a much better team than last week - well we did for the first half anyway.
It was a tackle, not a ruck, so the offside line was the All Black's foot. Notwithstanding rule changes due to the Italian Job. Lawes was miles offside.
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A couple of posts above contain the typo "iffside". I wonder whether this might be a good term to use for offside decisions (correct or otherwise) deemed to materially affect the result of a match, as opposed to plain vanilla offside calls?
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@sparky said in England vs All Blacks:
Curse of the Meldrews trumped by Aura.
Think I spotted her in the North Stand at about 75 mins into the game...
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There were a couple of very clear England off-sides near their line at the end of the first half - right in front of us.
To be fair, the ABs probably got away with a couple down the other end as well.
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That's exactly what Ben Kay told the crowd I was with after the game. He went thru the whole scene in slo-mo, pointing out that Lawes was "at least a metre off-side, it wasn't even a close decision"
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@no-quarter he was never in an onside position, the long haired prop next to him was the guide. But again its the refeering thats the problem as nobody would complain if they call that throughout the game
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@derm-mccrum like the bullshit call that went against Barrett. Please try another one. garces is a shit ref and generally goes with what he knows
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@catogrande said in England vs All Blacks:
@canefan said in England vs All Blacks:
Difficult to see from that shot but that "last man's foot" at the time looked to be the first man's foot - ie an AB. Not sure whether that makes any difference or not. Notwithstanding that though I have to agree that Lawes was just offside.
I think the difference on the day was our lineout not functioning in the second half added to which Retallick went into overdrive. Just couldn't get any decent possession.
Well done to NZ, winning a game that could so easily have gotten away from them. Many plus points for England though, we looked a much better team than last week - well we did for the first half anyway.
Every team lifts against the ABs, England will be much worse next weekend.
Offside last man's feet or first man's body parts, doesn't matter for defending offside line. Nicely illustrated by the offside at the tackle image from World Rugby website
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Yeah after seeing @Wairau reply I had a look at the world rugby site and saw that graphic and yeah, offside. Theoretically though(looking at the graphic) the tackled guy could throw his arm out and place someone offside?
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@catogrande I guess so, don't know how it would be ruled in the heat of a game
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Fark me.
Just reading Stephen Jones in the UK Sunday Times. Apparently BBBR rated 4/10 while Itoje gets 9/10. Without being sucked into an anti-Jones tirade, truly delusional.
For those who have access, David Walsh's review of the game is spot-on and well worth a read - defence and will to win got NZ the victory.
