The Current State of Rugby
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@canefan the only thing i'll add to that is i think they have made themselves more important at least partially because there is more and more outcry from people...like us....for things not being pulled up in the past, i think part of fixing things is for the fans to chill out and accept calls will generally go both ways
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@canefan said in The Current State of Rugby:
I think this is a bullshit call to be honest.
How about the players and coaches finding every little way possible to make the refs job a nightmare? Pushing the envelope continually and then crying that the refs are blowing the whistle too much is a bit rich.
You still need rules/laws to play the game and therefore someone has to keep both teams within those rules to keep things fair.
The refs don't commit fouls or act illegally, that's the players. Add in the coaches that get them to push the boundaries.I'm happy to continue calling for consistency and for as much accuracy as possible, also for refs to have a 'feel' for the game and allowing minor infringements to go uncalled if both sides are doing the same thing. Campo just wants rules to apply when it suits.
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@NTA said in The Current State of Rugby:
@Crucial agreed. Every time Campo has a sook about the state of Rugby, I remind myself that laws were very loose when he started, didn't change much while he played, and he still doesn't know a lot about any of them.
He would fit right into the Fern
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@canefan said in The Current State of Rugby:
@NTA said in The Current State of Rugby:
@Crucial agreed. Every time Campo has a sook about the state of Rugby, I remind myself that laws were very loose when he started, didn't change much while he played, and he still doesn't know a lot about any of them.
He would fit right into the Fern
was just going to say all of that doesn't stop us having a sook
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Raynals performance on Thursday was the current malaise the game faces writ large.
Fucking farcical.
Foleys fwd pass to Kellaway for the try missed.
Foley practically chips the conversion kick over Raynals head to avoid it getting looked at again.
Swain not getting a red......and the commentators lack of froth about it.
Angus Ta'avo got 6 weeks for an accidental head clash that knocked himself out.
Tupea had his MCL ruptured and a partial ACL tear. Fucking unacceptable.Foketi's turnover that was going to win the Wallabies the match. He crawled into the ruck on his knees within 2 yards of the ref. Penalty Australia.
The correct (but never ever fucking given) time wasting penalty to award NZ a scrum.
Then Mo'unga gets to take a drop goal conversion while there is a camera man on a Segway under the posts and about 5 Allblacks in front of him fighting with Folau Fa'ainga. Dane Coles can be seen running in from 20 yards away for some biff.
The conversion was immaterial to the result but indicative of how Raynal had lost complete control of proceedings.
Will Mathieu Raynal be the star of the show in the first Bledisloe test?
Who’ll be the star of the show at Marvel Stadium on Thursday? Will it be Rieko Ioane? Captain Fantastic Sam Cane? Marika Koroibete or Rob Valetini?
This article was written BEFORE the match....
It speaks to how little faith most of us have in the dice rolling circus act that the game has become.
It is a fucking horrendously run sport at the moment and it is driving me bonkers.
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@Steve said in The Current State of Rugby:
Dane Coles can be seen running in from 20 yards away for some biff
Funnily, after that time wasting scrum was awarded, Coles came storming in aggressively trying to snatch the ball off whoever still had it, such a muppet.
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@Steve said in The Current State of Rugby:
@Crucial said in The Current State of Rugby:
@Steve or you could have just posted....”French ref”
That linked article barely hits the low bar of fact of a forum.
It’s not just French ref though…..the whole thing is a mess.
You’re post was just “French ref” though and the “article” linked to was so full of hyperbole and outdated comments it might just have been written by David Campese.
Had to laugh at how the writer completely tangled up their logic to support refs not being the centre of things by praising Gardner for taking control and not listening to anyone else. -
@Crucial said in The Current State of Rugby:
@Steve said in The Current State of Rugby:
@Crucial said in The Current State of Rugby:
@Steve or you could have just posted....”French ref”
That linked article barely hits the low bar of fact of a forum.
It’s not just French ref though…..the whole thing is a mess.
You’re post was just “French ref” though and the “article” linked to was so full of hyperbole and outdated comments it might just have been written by David Campese.
Had to laugh at how the writer completely tangled up their logic to support refs not being the centre of things by praising Gardner for taking control and not listening to anyone else.It’s a thread about how they are making a bollox of it . And my post is about the latest ref to make a bollox of it.
The article is about the possibly of said ref making a bollox of it.
I’m not sure if your angle here? Do you think Thursdays game was a judicious tour de force ?
Or have you inserted yourself into the thread to be an intentionally disagreeable conversational speed bump.
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@taniwharugby said in The Current State of Rugby:
@Steve said in The Current State of Rugby:
Dane Coles can be seen running in from 20 yards away for some biff
Funnily, after that time wasting scrum was awarded, Coles came storming in aggressively trying to snatch the ball off whoever still had it, such a muppet.
He had to be restrained TWICE. Couldn't believe it
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@Steve said in The Current State of Rugby:
Raynals performance on Thursday was the current malaise the game faces writ large.
Fucking farcical.
Foleys fwd pass to Kellaway for the try missed.
Foley practically chips the conversion kick over Raynals head to avoid it getting looked at again.
Swain not getting a red......and the commentators lack of froth about it.
Angus Ta'avo got 6 weeks for an accidental head clash that knocked himself out.
Tupea had his MCL ruptured and a partial ACL tear. Fucking unacceptable.Foketi's turnover that was going to win the Wallabies the match. He crawled into the ruck on his knees within 2 yards of the ref. Penalty Australia.
The correct (but never ever fucking given) time wasting penalty to award NZ a scrum.
Then Mo'unga gets to take a drop goal conversion while there is a camera man on a Segway under the posts and about 5 Allblacks in front of him fighting with Folau Fa'ainga. Dane Coles can be seen running in from 20 yards away for some biff.
The conversion was immaterial to the result but indicative of how Raynal had lost complete control of proceedings.
Who’ll be the star of the show at Marvel Stadium on Thursday? Will it be Rieko Ioane? Captain Fantastic Sam Cane? Marika Koroibete or Rob Valetini?
This article was written BEFORE the match....
It speaks to how little faith most of us have in the dice rolling circus act that the game has become.
It is a fucking horrendously run sport at the moment and it is driving me bonkers.
And amidst all that anarchy the All Whites of NZ transgressed not once
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@chimoaus in response to your post in argie match thread
while refs need to be held accountable for poor performances, it's the vitriol and abuse via social media that is disgraceful must make some question why they are stil refs.
But the ambiguity of the rule book and quality of current crop of refs ends with a game struggling with its direction and identity.
Guess the problem is, the money in the NH game means WR thinks all is well
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@taniwharugby said in The Current State of Rugby:
But the ambiguity of the rule book and quality of current crop of refs ends with a game struggling with its direction and identity.
Guess the problem is, the money in the NH game means WR thinks all is well
In recent internationals the refs haven’t called the hands on the ground prior to turnover. But there are so many rules that aren’t managed very well and I feel for refs - wingers in front of box kick or just players at restart, not straight feed at scrums, players making a mistake then playing the ball on the ground - penalty? players joining in front of players at maul..etc
Like you say the issue is the rules and the product that results. The thing I hate most is lineout mauls because so much of the game has become about this phase. We are seeing 3 or more tries per game at this phase. It reduces back play. Just seems out of whack - I would like them to make this more of a contest or just referee the attacking team more.
The oddest rule is the held up dropout. The reward to defender seems unfair on the attacking team.
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@voodoo said in The Current State of Rugby:
@taniwharugby said in The Current State of Rugby:
@Steve said in The Current State of Rugby:
Dane Coles can be seen running in from 20 yards away for some biff
Funnily, after that time wasting scrum was awarded, Coles came storming in aggressively trying to snatch the ball off whoever still had it, such a muppet.
He had to be restrained TWICE. Couldn't believe it
That's a guy you definitely want to shake hands with.
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@Steve said in The Current State of Rugby:
@Crucial said in The Current State of Rugby:
@Steve said in The Current State of Rugby:
@Crucial said in The Current State of Rugby:
@Steve or you could have just posted....”French ref”
That linked article barely hits the low bar of fact of a forum.
It’s not just French ref though…..the whole thing is a mess.
You’re post was just “French ref” though and the “article” linked to was so full of hyperbole and outdated comments it might just have been written by David Campese.
Had to laugh at how the writer completely tangled up their logic to support refs not being the centre of things by praising Gardner for taking control and not listening to anyone else.It’s a thread about how they are making a bollox of it . And my post is about the latest ref to make a bollox of it.
The article is about the possibly of said ref making a bollox of it.
I’m not sure if your angle here? Do you think Thursdays game was a judicious tour de force ?
Or have you inserted yourself into the thread to be an intentionally disagreeable conversational speed bump.
Hardly. If you actually read the thread you'd see that it is generally more constructive than a whinge about the latest performance and I have hardly just inserted myself in.
Your post wasn't about the state of the game and what could be done it was just your list of the latest ref errors or strange decisions. Match threads are good for that
The article had one line wondering how Reynal would go. WHOOP-DE-DO.How about discussing consistency (or lack thereof) across countries and comps. Or the deliberate ignoring of laws for unknown purposes? That kind of stuff.
Otherwise you may as well have typed 'French Ref'
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On the topic of consistency. I was googling about this weekend's ref and came across this
'Bottled that': Wayne Barnes leniency over high tackle sparks drama in Premiership final
Referee Wayne Barnes, officiating his third Premiership final, was reluctant to go with a red and explained that there
So apparently Barnes is the only ref that going that works on a theory of the ball carrier being the dominant person in a tackle even if they take a hit directly to the face.
I kind of get the concept (same as Porter v BBBR) but why is it that no other ref rules this way, the citing commissioners send it to judiciary then judiciary side with Barnes?
Both this case and the Porter ones look to be clear instances of what the guidelines are trying to remove from the game or discourage as technique from tacklers. Quite strange.As an aside I did laugh to see that despite all of his experience Barnes is still the ref most likely to get in the way of play. His positioning has always been terrible and he has often managed to do so in big matches
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In Bledisloe 1, the ball was in play for 12 minutes in the 1st half.
12 minutes out of 40. And this test was supposedly between 2 sides who like to have have a fast match with free flowing rugby.
In the Argie - SA game a few hours later, there was over 30 penalties. So, essentially he blew 1 penalty a minute for the time the ball was in play.
International rugby is slowly creaking to a halt and you know it will only get worse at the World Cup.
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@DaGrubster said in The Current State of Rugby:
In Bledisloe 1, the ball was in play for 12 minutes in the 1st half.
12 minutes out of 40. And this test was supposedly between 2 sides who like to have have a fast match with free flowing rugby.
In the Argie - SA game a few hours later, there was over 30 penalties. So, essentially he blew 1 penalty a minute for the time the ball was in play.
International rugby is slowly creaking to a halt and you know it will only get worse at the World Cup.
Ball in play time is a bit misleading but it is still a comparable stat.
Rugby by design has times when the ball is not in play eg lineouts and scrums. Also the more teams score, ironically the more the ball is 'out of play' by some measures. eg a goalkicker lining up a kickThe increases in out of play time measures I would prefer to compare is how long it is taking to set and complete scrums and lineouts (that would indicate fundamental issues with game management). How long players are taking from penalties/free kicks from hand. Those stats from last week seem to point to 20 secs max being the aim.
There are certainly some tweaks that can happen without major complication. One being clamping down on players throwing/kicking the ball away after the whistle as in 7s.The biggest problem, as always, is that the NH (especially UK) teams have no problem wanting a confrontational and slow game. Their sporting culture is based on football where the fan experience is more about tension and moments than it is about entertainment and fast play. The current state works for them money wise (debatable at club level) and they resist change.
That was the actual feedback given to the ELVs and replacing minor penalties with free kicks.
