Super Rugby 2020
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@Hooroo said in Super Rugby 2020:
@mariner4life said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Hooroo said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Hooroo I'd be wearing turf boots!
We weren't allowed to in the same vane we also weren't allowed to wear a bra.....
so your man tits just sort of swung around under your jersey? gross
I can't even remember moulds being a thing when I was playing
jesus, when did you last play?
My first set was when i was playing gridiron, around 2000?
To be fair, in the Waikato, you only needed them at the start of the season, then you needed the 18mm steels for the rest of the year.
In Wellington I used to have a set of both that i took to each game, depending on the quality of the surface, for the most part it was the long ones.
Of course in the Tropics wearing steel sprigs was just fucking stupid.
The main drawback of them in the early days was you couldn't hurt people with them. Then they changed the rules anyway.
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@mariner4life said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Hooroo said in Super Rugby 2020:
@mariner4life said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Hooroo said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Hooroo I'd be wearing turf boots!
We weren't allowed to in the same vane we also weren't allowed to wear a bra.....
so your man tits just sort of swung around under your jersey? gross
I can't even remember moulds being a thing when I was playing
jesus, when did you last play?
My first set was when i was playing gridiron, around 2000?
To be fair, in the Waikato, you only needed them at the start of the season, then you needed the 18mm steels for the rest of the year.
In Wellington I used to have a set of both that i took to each game, depending on the quality of the surface, for the most part it was the long ones.
Of course in the Tropics wearing steel sprigs was just fucking stupid.
The main drawback of them in the early days was you couldn't hurt people with them. Then they changed the rules anyway.
I played the majority of senior rugby in Marlborough for Pelorus. 95-2000
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@Hooroo said in Super Rugby 2020:
@mariner4life said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Hooroo said in Super Rugby 2020:
@mariner4life said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Hooroo said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Hooroo I'd be wearing turf boots!
We weren't allowed to in the same vane we also weren't allowed to wear a bra.....
so your man tits just sort of swung around under your jersey? gross
I can't even remember moulds being a thing when I was playing
jesus, when did you last play?
My first set was when i was playing gridiron, around 2000?
To be fair, in the Waikato, you only needed them at the start of the season, then you needed the 18mm steels for the rest of the year.
In Wellington I used to have a set of both that i took to each game, depending on the quality of the surface, for the most part it was the long ones.
Of course in the Tropics wearing steel sprigs was just fucking stupid.
The main drawback of them in the early days was you couldn't hurt people with them. Then they changed the rules anyway.
I played the majority of senior rugby in Marlborough for Pelorus. 95-2000
then yeah, they probably weren't much of a thing
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https://www.allblacks.com/news/glen-jackson-to-retire-from-professional-refereeing
People of the fern rejoice. Hometown is finally retiring.
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@Yeetyaah said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Bones I disagree. Everyone on here bags him and rightly so. He's bias towards hometown teams and has been for years, there's a reason he never got a world cup gig.
Got some stats some that? Like percentage off home town wins much greater then averaged? Cos I think it's mostly internet reinforced bollocks
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@Yeetyaah said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Bones I disagree. Everyone on here bags him and rightly so. He's bias towards hometown teams and has been for years, there's a reason he never got a world cup gig.
Define everyone? And I see, the RWC is the benchmark then - so Mark Lawrence was a shit ref too? Also, what @Machpants said.
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@Yeetyaah said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Bones I disagree. Everyone on here bags him and rightly so. He's bias towards hometown teams and has been for years, there's a reason he never got a world cup gig.
Not so sure about that.
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@Yeetyaah said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Bones I disagree. Everyone on here bags him and rightly so. He's bias towards hometown teams and has been for years, there's a reason he never got a world cup gig.
Sorry, bugbear of mine: "biased", or shows bias.
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@Yeetyaah said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Bones I disagree. Everyone on here bags him and rightly so. He's bias towards hometown teams and has been for years, there's a reason he never got a world cup gig.
"Everyone" is an exaggeration, but I agree that a lot of Ferners have - for years - been criticizing Glen Jackson for bias towards the home team, because the 50/50 decisions more often favoured/seemed to favour the home team than the away team if he had the whistle.* Whether the criticism was justified is another matter, but he got his nickname "hometown" for a reason.
Some people appear to have memory problems?
*Don't think that's reason to celebrate his retirement, because there are refs who are significantly worse than he is.
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Preseason results (both games played in Durban on Friday, 10/1):
Sharks v NWU Pukke (a Varsity Cup team): 26 - 31
Sharks v Russia: 64 - 14The Stormers are next, and will play University teams UCT, Maties, CPUT and a DHL WP XV on Saturday, 11/1 (local time) in Cape Town.
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@Bones said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Yeetyaah said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Bones how So?
Because he's a decent kiwi ref and not exactly getting on. Think he could have continued on for a few more years and only got better.
Why is it a good thing?
With you on this. Experience is important in pressure situations and how people react. So "hometown" he may have been, but as time goes on and confidence builds the external pressures from the crowd, job security, etc, diminish and he becomes a better ref. Wayne Barnes (who I still can't forgive) also got better.
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Nafi Tuitavake has signed a two-year deal with the Bulls.
https://www.allblacks.com/news/nafi-tuitavake-signs-two-year-super-rugby-deal-with-bulls/
