England v Australia
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I watch, and read about, a wiiiide variety of sports. I don't know if there is any other sport that talks about referees, laws, and specific referee calls more than Rugby. Commentators, panel shows, dickheads on internet forums. Before and after.
Possibly Rugby League is worse, but it would be only just.
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@mariner4life said in England v Australia:
Possibly Rugby League is worse, but it would be only just.
It is made worse by the fact that there are only about a dozen rules in their whole book.
And Gus Gould. He makes everything worse.
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@nta said in England v Australia:
@mariner4life said in England v Australia:
Possibly Rugby League is worse, but it would be only just.
It is made worse by the fact that there are only about a dozen rules in their whole book.
And Gus Gould. He makes everything worse.
For them it starts with the losing coaches press conference, especially if they don't get at least 50% of the penalties. Shane Flanagan is the worst at the moment. But no one tops Toovey for that.
I think a big part of rugby's problem is the fact that there is a heap of broadcast time straight after a penalty. If it's in your own half, there is a minute or two of faffing about while the 10 kicks for touch, then another 30 seconds while the forwards lumber up for the lineout. That's a lot of time for 10 suuuuuper slow motion replays, and a mouth breather in the box to spout inaccurate bullshit.
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@nta said in England v Australia:
@mariner4life said in England v Australia:
mouth breather in the box
yea that guy right there. But, he is faaaar from alone.
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@nta said in England v Australia:
yea, but i am not sure people actually listen to him seriously any more do they? Now that Kafer has take up the same victim mentality, he is far more dangerous.
You'll probably mock me for this, but more dangerous to public opinion of refs are the super excitable Northern Hemisphere ones who are depserate to beat the All Blacks, so jump on every 50/50 and spout utter crap. The Irish dipshit on BeIn was deplorable this year, but he is far from alone there.
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@mariner4life said in England v Australia:
yea, but i am not sure people actually listen to him seriously any more do they?
People aren't watching rugby. And he's only on Foxtel.
We get Gordon Bray and Matt Burke on Channel 10, which is so much b-
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@nta said in England v Australia:
@mariner4life said in England v Australia:
yea, but i am not sure people actually listen to him seriously any more do they?
People aren't watching rugby. And he's only on Foxtel.
We get Gordon Bray and Matt Burke on Channel 10, which is so much b-
Bray isn't too bad in that respect is he (i don't watch on Ch10). I know, and am so disappointed by the fact, that Burke strays down that path.
Bray is too busy talking about where a player's family comes from, and which person he played U10s with, to have time to whinge about referee injustice.
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@mariner4life said in England v Australia:
Bray isn't too bad in that respect is he (i don't watch on Ch10). I know, and am so disappointed by the fact, that Burke strays down that path.
Bray is too busy talking about where a player's family comes from, and which person he played U10s with, to have time to whinge about referee injustice.You are correct.
Burke is a fucking entitled private school boy whiner. His book is fairly boring but has a "Why didn't I stand up to getting shifted to centre when Mat Rogers came along? Waaaaaaaah!"
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@mariner4life said in England v Australia:
@nta said in England v Australia:
@mariner4life said in England v Australia:
Possibly Rugby League is worse, but it would be only just.
It is made worse by the fact that there are only about a dozen rules in their whole book.
And Gus Gould. He makes everything worse.
For them it starts with the losing coaches press conference, especially if they don't get at least 50% of the penalties. Shane Flanagan is the worst at the moment. But no one tops Toovey for that.
I think a big part of rugby's problem is the fact that there is a heap of broadcast time straight after a penalty. If it's in your own half, there is a minute or two of faffing about while the 10 kicks for touch, then another 30 seconds while the forwards lumber up for the lineout. That's a lot of time for 10 suuuuuper slow motion replays, and a mouth breather in the box to spout inaccurate bullshit.
Good point. Can be fixed with an attitude change and having the so called ‘expert comments’ person actually doing their job and pinpointing player skills in attack or defence rather than targeting the refs decision.
I point again to NFL where they also have gaps in play but the TV broadcast immediately lines up replays that show exactly what went down and the comments are describing the nuances that the average viewer may not have picked up.
When a controversial event takes place, just note it and say ‘that’s one for the post match analysts’. Have the panel show all lined up for straight after.
