Bledisloe II - Have a stab at the teams.

Hooroo

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Side note - what the fuck is Keith Quinn's fucking problem?
 
He's now tweeted that NZ fans are more concerned about Phipps shoe throwing than Franks non-citing. This has of course, been forwarded on and shared buy all the anti-NZ brigade. 
 
I am fucking furious. For a start, it's a load of shit. Read this thread, read the GAGR thread, read anything - nobody really gives a fuck about Phipps, I've only seen it mentioned by NZ rugby journo's who need a base case level 1 course in PR. I am fucking sick of being told what I think about things because I support the AB's by halfwits who have an agenda against us. Fucking sick of it.
 
I get that being at the top of the tree means you have more people throwing barbs at you. I get that there are a couple of shitty AB incidents over the past 50 years that leave certain bitter dipshits with a permanently engrained view that everything we do is cheating, I get all that. But why do we have all have to be tarred with some shitty brush to suit some fuckheads crappy agenda. We're crap because we all boo QC - Fuck off, at it's peak it was probably 20-25%, and on Saturday, it sounded like maybe 250 people max. In a crowd of 35,000. Fuck that, we aren't all shittty uncouth saddo's from the wrong sides of the track (which btw, is nothing to be ashamed of as nobody chooses how much money their parents have), and we aren't all crazy one-eyed lunatics who think the AB's are beyond reproach.
 
I've had a fucking gutful of the last few days, but Quinn, you've properly crossed the line. I give you offical Major Rage, Go and GET FUCKED award. I've read probably about 20 times on the weekend that AB greatness is "tainted" because of leaner treatment from the officials, well whatever, but I assure you Keith, Everything you do, write, say is now tainted as well. Because you are just trying to kiss the arse of the cancer of rugby, which to me, makes you part of the cancer of rugby.
 
Keith, your a fluffybunny. Fuck you.
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you're
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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No Quarter

Fucking A+ for that rant MR. Well played.

jegga

Keith Quinn is close mates with Stephen Jones.

antipodean

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Any salad can be a Ceasar salad if you stab it enough.

Frye

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Other players have been banned for less, and this area has been of huge focus over the last year or so. 
It makes no sense to me that he hasn't been cited and subsequently banned.</blockquote>
Which players? And in those examples, were the victims far more vocal after receiving said "gouge"?

pukunui

I don't really agree that SANZAAR should be coming out and explaining the non-citing. By not citing it they have said everything they need to say. ie. There was no citable offence. 
Where would it stop if they had to explain every non citing? 
What is the threshhold for outraged tweets or news paper columns? Would they then explain the wallaby 5s non citing for his non gouge on read? There would be a list of about 500 marginal clean outs and tackles from every game that didn't get cited but could have been close.

sparky

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="booboo" data-cid="610678" data-time="1472512020">"Incandescent with rage" was John Inverdale</blockquote>
 
No it wasn't. It was a comment by Brian Moore on Sunday Grandstand on the BBC in November 2005 when he was being interviewed by John Inverdale.

booboo

Ok. My bad.

Hooroo

Come on Booboo.... stop embarrassing yourself

Immenso Rapido

I like it how the historic NH journos outrageous idiocy now gets attributed, over time, to all of them, as memory fades if who the actual dunce was. 
Just like how a John Beattie can't tell the difference between a Tana Umaga and a Joeli Vidiri and calls all brownskins a poach. We now attribute the "born in Tokoroa" to about 5 or 6 different journos. 
One day we will be teasing Marto for running over children ......

MajorRage

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Which players? And in those examples, were the victims far more vocal after receiving said "gouge"?
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Ashton is the obvious case. But it's not isolated. Ashton was also viewed by the commissioner to not be a gouge, but to be hands on the face only.

ACT Crusader

All Black fans in India are outraged by the Phipps incident..... <img src="http://www.aaj.tv/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/shoe-1.jpg" alt="shoe-1.jpg">

MajorRage

I think my award would be more akin to this though:
 
<img src="https://img1.etsystatic.com/045/1/10199128/il_170x135.688473473_t5yp.jpg" alt="il_170x135.688473473_t5yp.jpg">

Kirwan

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="sparky" data-cid="610733" data-time="1472524576">No it wasn't. It was a comment by Brian Moore on Sunday Grandstand on the BBC in November 2005 when he was being interviewed by John Inverdale.</blockquote>
 
My memory of that was that it was Inverdale that said it. Was still in UK at that time and was watching the show.

Mick Gold Coast QLD

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Given their track record, I don't know how anyone can come on here and cite SANZAAR's 'laws and practices' with a straight face.
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I give up. Outraged outrage has been put aside, ever so briefly, in favor of fabulously persuasive argument that Owen Franks is guilty of performing a tonsillectomy or something because SANZAR was invented by the Three Stooges.

MN5

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I like it how the historic NH journos outrageous idiocy now gets attributed, over time, to all of them, as memory fades if who the actual dunce was. 
Just like how a John Beattie can't tell the difference between a Tana Umaga and a Joeli Vidiri and calls all brownskins a poach. We now attribute the "born in Tokoroa" to about 5 or 6 different journos. 
One day we will be teasing Marto for running over children ......
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Och no, noot a Scotsman havin a whine too ?

jegga

If you are on Twitter you might like to ask Quinn to back that up with some actual evidence 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://mobile.twitter.com/KeithQuinn88?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author'>https://mobile.twitter.com/KeithQuinn88?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author</a> 
That should be a bit awkward for him 
I don't buy rugby news anymore , he's one of the reasons . He had two pages of his name dropping and bullshit in every issue but the final straw was when he was banging on about what an awesome guy Stephen Jones was . I wish he'd find some other outlet for his self loathing, there's no need for him to join the Nh/Aussie circle jerk about nz rugby.

Siam

The niggle, the standing up to niggle, the face touches (where no one actually gets hurt), the Cane pushing Pococok and Kepu holding Cane down, the Coles swinging cleanout that gets seen and the Moore swinging cleanout that doesn't,
 
they're all normal parts of rugby, part of the essence of rugby
 
When you go live to a game you're reminded it's 15 blokes against 15 blokes. Blokes who play and practice and try to win just like we do or used to do at a far lower level. Fired up by the game and what you have to do to play it - just like we do/did.
 
Going over the minutae of details and incidents can cause a loss of context
 
By far the most reprehensible "just not rugby" act was that little twat going to so much trouble hiffing Malakai's boot into the stands!
 
Swatting it away is one thing but a full throw to the boundary is the act of prize dickhead.
 
We all might mimic something the lads did in the heat last week, but surely not one of us would do what Phipps did?
 
Rugby is better than that

Immenso Rapido

I thought the boot throw was hilarious, in a Will Ferrall, grown man tantrum, kind of way.

Hooroo

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I thought the boot throw was hilarious, in a Will Ferrall, grown man tantrum, kind of way.
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I like it even more when I think of it like that.
 
It really was a great piece of work

The Silver Fern

Bledisloe II - Have a stab at the teams.