RWC Week 1: Wales v Fiji
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC Week 1: Wales v Fiji:
@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 1: Wales v Fiji:
@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC Week 1: Wales v Fiji:
Not criticizing Wales, but I can't make up my mind if Wales won by being better at playing the Ref or because Carley was better at reffing Wales.
Honestly, it wasn't just incompetent, it was so bad and blatantly one-sided that it needs serious looking at.
Combination of everything tbh
I honestly don't think he was cheating. He's just not up to the intensity and significance of a match like this
But it wasn't one way traffic
See my earlier post, two of Fiji's four tries should not have happened
Mistakes I get and accept. That includes the disallowed Fiji try.
Wales being allowed 4-5 penalties in front of their line without a YC while Fiji get a YC after 2 penalties (one near the 22 IIRC) I don't.
Yeah, agreed. As a Welsh fan I'd have had no complaints if he'd carded one of our guys a lot earlier.
The Fijian YC near the 22 was the one for pulling the maul down right? I don't think there's anything wrong with a YC in that situation without prior warning, you see those given often. It's just that he was too weak when Wales kept infringing on their goal-line.
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@mantissanet said in RWC Week 1: Wales v Fiji:
@Bones Some of my best friends are referees...
I call bullshit.
Referees are selected by choosing the kids with no friends and poor eyesight (except when the spot something the team you support has done).
Unless...you are a referee...
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@mooshld to be fair to him when the scrum was moving forward didn't the ball get knocked on at the base, or did I imagine that?
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@pooler-fan said in RWC Week 1: Wales v Fiji:
@mooshld to be fair to him when the scrum was moving forward didn't the ball get knocked on at the base, or did I imagine that?
Yes
He said it on ref mic
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@GibbonRib said in RWC Week 1: Wales v Fiji:
I don't think there's anything wrong with a YC in that situation without prior warning,
He can justify his decisions and ask us to accept his errors and that's fine, as long as they even-handed. They weren't.
I don't think I've ever bagged a ref for being biased since they went neutral (not even Barnes) and hate criticism of them as they generally do a bloody good job and actually make bugger all mistakes - but as a neutral, Carley reffing last night deserves looking at for more than incompetence.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC Week 1: Wales v Fiji:
@GibbonRib said in RWC Week 1: Wales v Fiji:
I don't think there's anything wrong with a YC in that situation without prior warning,
He can justify his decisions and ask us to accept his errors and that's fine, as long as they even-handed. They weren't.
I don't think I've ever bagged a ref for being biased since they went neutral (not even Barnes) and hate criticism of them as they generally do a bloody good job and actually make bugger all mistakes - but as a neutral, Carley reffing last night deserves looking at for more than incompetence.
But if he was biased or corrupt, how do you explain the various Fijian offences that were missed?
Hanlon's Razor says "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
I reckon you can substitute stupudity with incompetence and it will still hold true.
But yes, he fell far short of the minimum expectation of consistency
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Hanlon's Razor says "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Take your point, but as Lee Atwater said: "Perception is Reality". It isn't just the stupidity or incompetence, it's the look.
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60th minute, Biggar should have been yellow carded.
Gets up offside.
Never looked like retreating.
Took the halfback.If pulling down a maul is a professional foul, so is that.
Subsequent penalty awarded for But it isn't just the ones blown, is all the other shithousery - Wales desperately off their feet at every ruck and scrabbling hands.
The warning didn't take into account the nature of either penalty I might add.
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@GibbonRib you also see yellows whipped out all the time for cynical, offside, ball tampering infringements a couple of metres out from the tryline. Not a couple more penalties then a warning.
You also see yellow cards for no arms tackles aimed at the knee - not comments of "no foul play" followed by penalising the other team 30 seconds later for a seatbelt tackle of minimal effect.
It's these type of incidents that give it the "look" of something more than incompetence.
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Yeah, you're right, plenty of incidents where Wales could and should have had another card.
I'm just wary of ascribing it to corruption, when incompetence is a perfectly adequate explanation.
Look at the Rassie inspired farce during the last Lions tour - thousands of Boks fans will go to their graves swearing that the refs were (and still are) conspiring to cheat them, despite all evidence to the contrary. As you say, perception becomes reality. Don't want to play that game.
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@NTA said in RWC Week 1: Wales v Fiji:
They still had their fate in their hands - despite any issue they may have with the officiating - and couldn't execute.
I find this line of thinking a bit insincere. It would've been a helluva lot easier to execute it they weren't getting shafted.
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@NTA said in RWC Week 1: Wales v Fiji:
Still, at the end Fiji had a fairly straightforward chance to score a try and kick the conversion from close enough.
They still had their fate in their hands - despite any issue they may have with the officiating - and couldn't execute.
Yeah, after two hours of blood, sweat and tear-inducing refereeing it came down to this moment. Still can't quite believe he didn't take it, Radradra of all people.
I had a mixture of emotions, I was absolutely sure we'd lost the game, then the relief that we'd hung on - but it's hard to see it end that way. You want to win through some great defence forcing the turnover, not an error like that. Feel for the Fijian players & fans.
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Well this is Fiji fans complaining about refing in Fiji games (yeah I know you're Kiwis, but don't go telling me you were neutral for that one (and definitely don't give me any of the "I was neutral until the ref started being biased"))
Go to a Welsh forum and they'll give you a big list of the calls that went Fiji's way. That's just how the game is.
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@NTA said in RWC Week 1: Wales v Fiji:
60th minute, Biggar should have been yellow carded.
Gets up offside.
Never looked like retreating.
Took the halfback.If pulling down a maul is a professional foul, so is that.
Subsequent penalty awarded for But it isn't just the ones blown, is all the other shithousery - Wales desperately off their feet at every ruck and scrabbling hands.
The warning didn't take into account the nature of either penalty I might add.
As I mentioned previously the ruck which Biggar infringed at should never have happened because the tap and go was an infringement itself and Wales should have been awarded a free kick for dummying the tap & go
Carley waved play on despite warning Fiji for doing it just seconds before
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@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 1: Wales v Fiji:
@NTA said in RWC Week 1: Wales v Fiji:
60th minute, Biggar should have been yellow carded.
Gets up offside.
Never looked like retreating.
Took the halfback.If pulling down a maul is a professional foul, so is that.
Subsequent penalty awarded for But it isn't just the ones blown, is all the other shithousery - Wales desperately off their feet at every ruck and scrabbling hands.
The warning didn't take into account the nature of either penalty I might add.
As I mentioned previously the ruck which Biggar infringed at should never have happened because the tap and go was an infringement itself and Wales should have been awarded a free kick for dummying the tap & go
Carley waved play on despite warning Fiji for doing it just seconds before
That would have been hilarious if he'd FKd Fiji for that while Wales were all offside in front of the line.
