ABs v Scotland
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@taniwharugby said in ABs v Scotland:
@infidel tough to see what Hogg is doing when there is a Scot running interference
I thought the call was fair in this instance, but this is an area of concern in his game.
10 Foul Play.
10.4 Dangerous play and misconduct
(i) Tackling the jumper in the air. A player must not tackle nor tap, push or pull the foot or feet of an opponent jumping for the ball in a lineout or in open play.I can't give the benefit of the doubt to Naholo, as he has already managed to get past the interfering player, so Naholo managed to bypass what the Scot running interference was doing, and still managed to tackle Hogg in the air.
As far as I can tell, it's Naholo's reponsibility to ensure he doesn't tackle a jumper in the air.
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@rapido said in ABs v Scotland:
I know we've had the lawmakers turn the World upside down the last few years. Probably need to separate those who think lucky not carded because the laws get interpreted badly recently, from this who think he's lucky as they genuinely think all tackles in the air should be an automatic card.
I'm in the former camp. I think it was a common sense decision, but is absolutely not how the law has been interpreted the past couple of years. Players have been binned for far less. When it happened I was 100% certain he was gone, and was amazed when he wasn't.
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@infidel What you're wanting basically removes any chance of a contest in the air because any contact ensures a yellow card for the guy who doesn't catch the ball. That's idiotic. Not every collision is a tackle in the air.
Lets say a guy is set under the ball, times his leap, but as he does the attacker leaps forward and gets to the ball first (Ben Smith is particularly good at this), there's a mid air collision and the attacker goes down. Then it's a yellow card to the guy who vertically leapt but didn't get to the ball.
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@talisker said in ABs v Scotland:
Any defence of stereotypes and slurs can be found in places like the Daily Mail, it's 70 years out of date.
70 years out of date and completely dominating online web traffic of any UK newspaper.
Anyway, that paper is often found waling about political correctness and why can't I be an ignorant fuckwit any more?
Maybe that's a reason why it's dominating online web traffic in the 21st century? On account of it being all seventy years out of date 'n all?
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@chimoaus said in ABs v Scotland:
Anyone know the laws in AFL?, those guys practically wrestle in the air.
fucking play on
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@infidel said in ABs v Scotland:
Some random thoughts, was at Murrayfield for the first time.
We were in corporate hosting, Doddie Weir was our MC, he was absolutely hilarious. Very moving when he went onto the field before kickoff. Justin Marshall also present, dull by comparison.
Battling win, probably deserved, with about 7 minutes to go the ABs were up by 12. I think Hansen emptied the bench too early. He was basically saying with 10 minutes to go it was all over.
Thought the ref was very good, he seemed to rule absolutely everything, probably better than the other way and allowing a free for all. Did think he got the Naholo situation wrong, yellow card all day for me, massive benefit of doubt there.
Taylor was very good and a credible replacement for Coles as starter which is a good thing. Should have dummied Russell when try butchered!
Romano from the replay poor, needs to get lower on the carry, but was on his own once at least surrounded by four Scots, need your teammates there to help you out sometimes.
Read must be running on empty, thought he had a very, very quiet game, apart from lineout.
Fifita got through a lot of work, mostly good.
Big fan of Liam Squire, massive potential. Should have passed when he made the big break but I guess he thought Sopoaga would get tackled. He did pick the ball off that scrum in preference to Kieran Reid.
Echo what others have said about Edinburgh, great city to go for a test match.
Pakman seems you went to the Hilton buffet so you could rub shoulders with Kane Hames and Crockett, love your work.
Did he have one of those obnoxious tartan suits on? It takes a real character to pull those off. He is a real funny bugger judging by some YouTube footage I've seen.
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Dod or Doddie is a shortened version of George in Scotland.
My favourite off-field Doddie moment was from the Lions - they were doing media training and being asked questions to see how they would respond, Doddie was asked why he'd been spotted out drinking late in a night club before a game and he said, "Mistaken identity"
"Could you tell us who the B&I Lions player it was then?
Doddie says, "My father is out on tour with us"
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@rapido said in ABs v Scotland:
@crash said in ABs v Scotland:
@mn5 The Scots are funny buggers though. Anyone who calls themselves"Doddie Weir" or "Dusty Hare" can't take themselves too seriously..
Dusty Hare was English, though.
This
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@infidel said in ABs v Scotland:
Pakman seems you went to the Hilton buffet so you could rub shoulders with Kane Hames and Crockett, love your work.
Took my son up in 2005 and we did same. He spoke to Rieko Gear, whom he said was very friendly. Carl Hayman he said less so.
He wanted to repeat, so we did.
Dirty job, but someone's got to do it!
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@infidel said in ABs v Scotland:
@antipodean
It's his job to see what Hogg is doing. Hogg has the rights.
Naholo has to err on the side of caution for me, let's stick to the facts, Naholo tackled Hogg in mid-air.That's why he was penalised. This isn't difficult to grasp.
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@akan004 said in ABs v Scotland:
Except Jones was half a metre in front of the kicker in the game against the ABs and the try should have been disallowed.
Just saw that. Was it Jones or the bloke further inside?
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