Final: Chiefs v Crusaders
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Good on NZR for standing up for the officials from some pathetic,Bitter twisted people we don’t need these sort of people involved in rugby setting kids a great example ,Do they do this shit at their kids games .
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@pakman said in Final: Chiefs v Crusaders:
Better to upgrade officials so result changing clangers aren't dropped. Treat the cause not the effect.
Wow, that's a really poor response. Criticising a referee if you disagree with his decisions is one thing; abusing him and threatening him (which is what has happened) is totally unacceptable and I can't believe that you're condoning it. Referee abuse is a major reason for the declining numbers of referees, particularly in grassroots rugby. Without them, there's no game to play or watch.
The cause of the abusive behaviour is not the officials making a few mistakes; the cause is entirely within the abusive persons, who've lost their sense of what is acceptable behaviour and what is not. If you want to treat the cause, then these abusive people are the ones who should be "upgraded", so the abuse no longer happens and bad examples are no longer set to children and young people, who may copy that bad behaviour.
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@Stargazer I don't support refs being abused. But in many walks of life a person who made a mistake with the massive consequences of Saturday's would be summarily dismissed. It's a professional game now.
NZRU ought to be investigating how to avoid a recurrence.
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I didn't realise Cane never fronted the press conference afterwards. Appears pretty gutless unless he had genuine reason to skip it.
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@Chris Absolutely feral. Get a hobby, or something better to do. If you really want to make a change get involved with your union. Though it'd be best not to announce yourself with a conspiracy theory about refs. Unless you have completely convincing evidence of some kind of favourite team advantage. Probably not the kind of thing that is presented in Instagram comments ...
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@pakman I don't think you can compare what a ref does into the business world.
Where you have 30 grown men you are trying to keep in line, while they are all trying to push the limits, and will make errors as well, not to mention you have 3 others trying to help you too, and you are saying he should be sacked because of an error that he and 3 other officials missed?
Should ALB be similarly sacked for his error? That was quite important and could well have swung the pendulum to the Crusaders victory.
Usually only lose your job on the spot through gross negligence, which mean you think they weren't errors, they were deliberate actions, as in he cheated?
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@taniwharugby said in Final: Chiefs v Crusaders:
@pakman I don't think you can compare what a ref does into the business world.
Where you have 30 grown men you are trying to keep in line, while they are all trying to push the limits, not to mention you have 3 others trying to help you too, and you are saying he should be sacked because of an error that he and 3 other officials missed?
Should ALB be similarly sacked for his error? That was quite important and could well have swung the pendulum to the Crusaders victory.
Usually only lose your job on the spot through gross negligence, which mean you think they weren't errors, they were deliberate actions, as in he cheated?
I'm not actually gunning for BOK.
But sport is now business. We have two touchies aided by technology to try and improve the game.
Pre technology the second Narawa try stands and Chiefs win going away. Maybe ALB doesn't see yellow even.
If we embrace technology in the professional era we need to ensure the results of games aren't reversed through ropey application.We know from the technology that the Mo'unga try was bogus. One can try and cite various protocols to explain things away, but the plain fact remains that between two touchies and the TMO watching real time, even though BOK missed it, the system ought to have tipped him off and the scrum Chiefs been awarded.
As a business, NZRU need to look into why the error occurred and what can be changed going forward to ensure such errors don't recur.
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Sam Cane being a has been shithouse player, who would not be in any other tier one XV, was one of the main reasons that the Chiefs lost.
ABs go out in the QF, and the main reason is loser Cane is preferred over a vastly better player at international level for the last two years - Papalii.
What tier one team would Cane start for? None. He is shit.
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Some people not exactly covering themselves in glory following this game. My memory is as selective as everyone else's but I cannot recall such a bitter and twisted aftermath from a local NZ game.
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@Tim said in Final: Chiefs v Crusaders:
Sam Cane being a has been shithouse player, who would not be in any other tier one XV, was one of the main reasons that the Chiefs lost.
ABs go out in the QF, and the main reason is loser Cane is preferred over a vastly better player at international level for the last two years - Papalii.
What tier one team would Cane start for? None. He is shit.
Your opinion I know (and no problem with it), but if I was selecting Cane would be starting everyday of the week for ABs. But then again I think Papalii is pretty good, just what I prefer at test level is someone who tackles all day, gets off ground as quick as and stays involved in game etc.
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@pakman the more you post the sweeter the victory is.
Forget the NZRU looking into anything, the Chiefs need to have a full on review on whoever made the decision to go for that penalty kick from beyond half way. On a night when the conditions were not going to give the kicker any love it seemed a very poor and low percentage decision.
Was it because they didn’t trust their set piece? (Lineout risk)
Was it because DMac thought I did it last week why not tonight? (Different conditions)That penalty gave Chiefs some needed momentum, but the decision to kick for goal IMO took that momentum away.
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Why is everyone acting like the on field officials had no idea about Dmac being offside? The ref and touchie seemed to immediately be talking about it and specifically called it out when referring in to the tmo. If there was no tmo then I think that try still gets called back based on what the touch judge saw. As others have pointed out, the markings on the field made it really blatant that he wasn't back 10.
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@Canerbry said in Final: Chiefs v Crusaders:
@Steven-Harris said in Final: Chiefs v Crusaders:
Thought Chiefs supporters were better than that.
Big call there.
Can't up-vote that but it is a pretty funny delivery
The reaction to this game is bizarre. McMillian's comments after the game were also fairly borderline. Asked about the refs, he said look at the crowd's reaction (booing at ceremony), that shows you something or words to that effect. Pretty poor all round really.
