NH club rugby
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Scary stuff. Hope Thomson gets well soon.
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@bones said in NH club rugby:
Lowe looked pretty neat for the bits I kept my eyes open for. Showed a bit of toe!
You missed his role in two of the Munster tries luckily... 😏
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@pot-hale
Ah he was probably at fault for one. But it was a decent enough second outing. Leinster have seriously good depth. They should be aiming for domestic and Europe glory this season.
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@billy-tell said in NH club rugby:
@pot-hale
Ah he was probably at fault for one. But it was a decent enough second outing. Leinster have seriously good depth. They should be aiming for domestic and Europe glory this season.
True - they should be. Stuart Lancaster seems very happy to keep going beyond next season working with Leo. They’re a good combo.
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@stockcar86 WTF, that's criminal.
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@antipodean the music? That act is just insane.
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What's your verdict? Toeava gets yellow for a high tackle (no penalty try awarded), but has now been cited, so the Citing Commissioner thinks it meets the red card threshold. By the way, there were 8 yellow cards in this game, 3 for Clermont and 5 for Castres.
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@stargazer Oh FFS, how does that come close to Red card. Another one in the WTF is going on these days column.
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Yellow and a PT for me. Looks like the damage to the Castres 15 may well have been caused by Parra sliding in with both knees.
Nowhere near a red.
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@nepia said in NH club rugby:
@stargazer Oh FFS, how does that come close to Red card. Another one in the WTF is going on these days column.
Yep, those were my thoughts as well. IMO it's a really marginal yellow. His right arm slips over the fullbacks shoulder (not towards the neck or head) and eventually he grabs the shoulder with his right hand. His left arm is below the fullback's arm pit (around the waist). What makes it look bad is the following roll, but it wasn't dangerous in terms of the law (definitely not a neck roll; it doesn't look like Toeava even touches his neck or head with his arm at all during the tackle). Edited to add that the fullback also moved downward in the tackle, which may have contributed to Toeava's arm ending up just above his shoulder.
To me it looks like the fullback got injured as a result of the movement of his head or neck in that roll, not Parra's knees.
I hope that, when Toeava has to appear before the French rugby judiciairy , it helps his case that all that time after his tackle until well after the whistle, he stayed with the injured fullback, protecting him while the game was continuing close to where it happened.
The ref didn't award a PT because according to him or the TMO it wasn't certain that the try would have been scored; it seems they came to that conclusion because the tackle happened 3 metres from the try line. Hmmm
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@stargazer said in NH club rugby:
@nepia said in NH club rugby:
@stargazer Oh FFS, how does that come close to Red card. Another one in the WTF is going on these days column.
Yep, those were my thoughts as well. IMO it's a really marginal yellow. His right arm slips over the fullbacks shoulder (not towards the neck or head) and eventually he grabs the shoulder with his right hand. His left arm is below the fullback's arm pit (around the waist). What makes it look bad is the following roll, but it wasn't dangerous in terms of the law (definitely not a neck roll; it doesn't look like Toeava even touches his neck or head with his arm at all during the tackle). Edited to add that the fullback also moved downward in the tackle, which may have contributed to Toeava's arm ending up just above his shoulder.
To me it looks like the fullback got injured as a result of the movement of his head or neck in that roll, not Parra's knees.
I hope that, when Toeava has to appear before the French rugby judiciairy , it helps his case that all that time after his tackle until well after the whistle, he stayed with the injured fullback, protecting him while the game was continuing close to where it happened.
The ref didn't award a PT because according to him or the TMO it wasn't certain that the try would have been scored; it seems they came to that conclusion because the tackle happened 3 metres from the try line. Hmmm
Only have to be certain that a try would probably have been scored.
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@catogrande said in NH club rugby:
Yellow and a PT for me. Looks like the damage to the Castres 15 may well have been caused by Parra sliding in with both knees.
Parra should have been sent from the field for diving in legs first like that.
@stargazer said in NH club rugby:
The ref didn't award a PT because according to him or the TMO it wasn't certain that the try would have been scored; it seems they came to that conclusion because the tackle happened 3 metres from the try line. Hmmm
The standard of refereeing appears to be getting worse.
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This is going to be very "the game's gone soft" but i fail to see how that is anything but an excellent covering tackle, a lost ball, and an unfortunate injury (I'll leave Parra out of it). The whole thing happens at full pace. The guy going for the line correctly gets his body height low and leads with the head. Toeava grabs him by the shoulder and the waist (the guy is basically bent at 90 degrees, he actually doesn't have much choice at that speed). At no time can i see evidence he even touches the head or neck.
The tackle goes to ground, and momentum rolls them over, made to look worse because the guys legs end up under Toeava.
The guy drops the ball, and something hurts him. This happens, it's rugby. But i can't really see what Toeava could have done differently. And that is my main argument.
He hits him in the head or even the neck? No problem. But he didn't, so why any censure at all?
