Things that annoy you about rugby...
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@taniwharugby yeah, and when was the last time you saw the attacking side penalized for collapsing? Though every team does it if they are trying to free the ball.
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Grant Nisbett. Learn some names George. Oops no, thats Gary. No, actually it is Grant.
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Dickhead coaches and managers who keep telling us, pre-match, how they're going to smash the opposition and physically annihilate them.
Do your talking on the pitch.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Things that annoy you about rugby...:
Dickhead coaches and managers who keep telling us, pre-match, how they're going to smash the opposition and physically annihilate them.
Do your talking on the pitch.
I'll add half time interviews, pointless sound bites
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Things that annoy you about rugby...:
Dickhead coaches and managers who keep telling us, pre-match, how they're going to smash the opposition and physically annihilate them.
Do your talking on the pitch.
Eddie Jones would have been quicker to type
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@Machpants @Victor-Meldrew I think coaches wouldn't mind ditching those pre-match and half time interviews, or those stupid interviews during the game. I'm not sure what they did do to deserve being called dickhead coaches. They're answering questions asked by the interviewer. What else are they supposed to say?
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@KiwiMurph said in Things that annoy you about rugby...:
The Blues....
But a less obvious one would be how long teams are allowed to have maul set up before they have to use it if they aren't going forward. They are allowed to stop twice and refs generally allow them ages before they call each of those 2 "stops". It should either be 1 stop and use it or the refs need to be a lot harsher/quicker on what they determine is a maul 'stopped'. Mauls are way too advantageous for the attacking team.
Agree with this. I would add that a maul going backwards should be deemed to have stopped.
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@Crucial said in Things that annoy you about rugby...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Things that annoy you about rugby...:
Dickhead coaches and managers who keep telling us, pre-match, how they're going to smash the opposition and physically annihilate them.
Do your talking on the pitch.
Eddie Jones would have been quicker to type
Not just Jones, Crucial, though he's the loudest current exponent.
This this sort of fluffybunny-ness has been getting worse for a decade or more
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Things that annoy you about rugby...:
@Crucial said in Things that annoy you about rugby...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Things that annoy you about rugby...:
Dickhead coaches and managers who keep telling us, pre-match, how they're going to smash the opposition and physically annihilate them.
Do your talking on the pitch.
Eddie Jones would have been quicker to type
Not just Jones, Crucial, though he's the loudest current exponent.
This this sort of fluffybunny-ness has been getting worse for a decade or more
Examples? I can only go by games that I follow closely enough to listen to pre match comments by coaches or those that are high profile.
Is this something prevalent in the English game? I don’t see it here. -
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@Machpants said in Things that annoy you about rugby...:
reporters need to step up and get decent questions
The vast majority are leading questions. The coach/player could legitimately just answer every question with "Yes"
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Personally, the growing antagonism between opposing fans and partisan press. There have always been muppets, but now it seems like there's a narrative (driven by media) that somehow the opposition are cheating, the refs favour them and nothing that your team does is wrong.
This is exemplified by the 'we have a deal' penalty discussion at the end of Lions 3; so many people arguing 'it's never a penalty', 'Read was offside', etc. Just frustrating
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@nzzp said in Things that annoy you about rugby...:
Personally, the growing antagonism between opposing fans and partisan press. There have always been muppets, but now it seems like there's a narrative (driven by media) that somehow the opposition are cheating, the refs favour them and nothing that your team does is wrong.
This is exemplified by the 'we have a deal' penalty discussion at the end of Lions 3; so many people arguing 'it's never a penalty', 'Read was offside', etc. Just frustrating
Or more recently 'NZ players never get penalised' carry on fed by the Jaapie media.
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@booboo .....and articles from Stuff which says study "shows home ref bias" really, you think???
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@Jailbreak7 Apparently, a post with some numbers on GAGR's blog is a "study".
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@Stargazer said in Things that annoy you about rugby...:
@Jailbreak7 Apparently, a post with some numbers on GAGR's blog is a "study".
That's "social science" isn't it?
