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@taniwharugby said in Red cards:
@Bones they did try changing the rules a few years back didnt they (re mauls)
No idea. I'm hardly going to go searching out any facts.
That right there is the level of dedication we should all be striving for. All you younger fellas watch and learn from a pro.
Steady on old man! The implication I'm no longer younger is
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@Catogrande said in Red cards:
@taniwharugby said in Red cards:
@Bones they did try changing the rules a few years back didnt they (re mauls)
No idea. I'm hardly going to go searching out any facts.
That right there is the level of dedication we should all be striving for. All you younger fellas watch and learn from a pro.
Steady on old man! The implication I'm no longer younger is
deeply offensive.completely true.40 is the new GFY.
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Easy RC decision for the Cannuck’s shoulder to the head clean out.
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Ben Skeen is a fucking whiney little pissant fluffybunny who is the villain of this world cup
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Should we rename the thread title to
“When you want to rant about Skeen”
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Said in a small-balled whine
"Ah, gerome, I just need to show you vision of this thing that happened right in front of you 5 minutes ago, but I found with 40 cameras and super slow mo.
Let's watch it for 3 minutes
I recommend a public hanging"
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@mariner4life said in Red cards:
Ben Skeen is a fucking whiney little pissant fluffybunny who is the villain of this world cup
Second to Ben Stokes in the Most Hated NZer stakes
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Drew Mitchell reads the Fern
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@ACT-Crusader said in Red cards:
Drew Mitchell reads the Fern
Barbarian has been quiet tonight....conspiracy much??
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@ACT-Crusader said in Red cards:
Drew Mitchell reads the Fern
Barbarian has been quiet tonight....conspiracy much??
I've met @barbarian and he's not that good looking
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Aussie panel feeding it to Skeen, absolutely giving it to him.
And Owens should have got a red.
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@Billy-Webb said in Red cards:
@Rembrandt said in Red cards:
Genuine question for those pro the yellow cards on the kiwi props as my rugby career ended before my balls dropped.
How does someone defend a try-line when an attacker is diving in leading with their head and you are camped on that line? (Or worse are a couple metres away and have to act fast)
Maybe I'm not understanding the concept of 'swinging arm' but I would have thought that if you didn't use your arm and instead braced with your bodyweight that that could be classified as a no-arms tackle.I tried to do a youtube search for great prop tries..but the highlights are all just overweight outside backs
Arms out in front of you. Take him onto your body, wrap man and ball and hold him up. Not so hard.
This is fine if the attacking player is already lower than the defending player. But what about when he suddenly drops, like what happened min the cases of Nepo and Ofa?
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So if a team is unable to stop a driving maul legally and it's about to score, they should be allowed to collapse it right?
If you can't win a lineout legally, you should be able to drag down the jumper or take out the lifter. It's not fair otherwise.
No, of course not - why are you being so obtuse on this issue?
What people are complaining / confused about it that a defending player can do everything absolutely legally and then - at the very last moment - the attacking player drops his body height, thus creating an automatically illegal situation through no fault of the defending player.
You say the defending player should stand up and cradle the attacking player - but what if the attacking player is also upright? You're then in Lavanini territory. So you have to start low, but then you end up in the situation we are complaining about.
Me and other posters here have described in some detail the issue with (a) requiring tacklers to drop their body heights in the tackle, but then (b) penalising them when they've dropped so low that they inevitably make head / neck contact on an attacking player who drops even lower after the tackle has been initiated.
However, for some reason which is not readily apparent, you and @MiketheSnow are taking a very obtuse and unhelpful approach to this issue, pretending it doesn't even exists and, in effect, saying that defenders should just let attacker score from close out.
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@Billy-Webb said in Red cards:
@Rembrandt said in Red cards:
Genuine question for those pro the yellow cards on the kiwi props as my rugby career ended before my balls dropped.
How does someone defend a try-line when an attacker is diving in leading with their head and you are camped on that line? (Or worse are a couple metres away and have to act fast)
Maybe I'm not understanding the concept of 'swinging arm' but I would have thought that if you didn't use your arm and instead braced with your bodyweight that that could be classified as a no-arms tackle.I tried to do a youtube search for great prop tries..but the highlights are all just overweight outside backs
Arms out in front of you. Take him onto your body, wrap man and ball and hold him up. Not so hard.
This is fine if the attacking player is already lower than the defending player. But what about when he suddenly drops, like what happened min the cases of Nepo and Ofa?
Ah.
Well in that case the defender should knee him in the head, followed by a short-arm jab just behind the ear and if at all feasible, finish off with a kung-fu round-house kick to the nuts.Sheesh. Let's accept that it is incumbent on the defender to make every reasonable effort to tackle within the laws of the game. Sometimes you're going to get unlucky despite your best efforts. Refs will use a degree of discretion if they are any good.
If I recall in the case of Nepo and Ofa, at least one or both of them were actually blown as much for the swinging arm as anything else. And I believe I've made my view perfectly clear on the latter elsewhere on this thread / board.
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