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@mariner4life said in NH International Rugby:
@rapido can i ask why? and which game you watched that had so many it became an issue for me? i barely see any of them.
Any time I see a try with a pop off the ground, I inwardly groan and wonder why the game hates defenders. I've even seen a 10 metre sideways 'pop' directly to a wide player who runs in the try (in my fuzzy memory I am seeing an Otago FIjian winger in this memory). It's a 'pass' Trapper Loveridge would have been proud of. A guy has done a perfectly text book tackle and his reward is for the ball carrier to hold onto it like he's still actually in play and chose who he passes/pops to. It's horseshit.
The first man to a breakdown should decide how the play is to unfold, not the numpty who was useless enough to get tackled with the ball and is out of the game until he retains his feet.
I know there was a time in the late 70s when this was legal. E.g. the Hika Reid try at Cardiff 1980. It was one of the best televised test tries in history up to that point and would get replayed quite a bit when I was a kid, But as this was totally illegal about a year later and from when I learnt the game, this always jarred as a weird try.
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@gt12 said in NH International Rugby:
One tricky thing is when players lead with their head. On that one, I'm not sure at all - you see this whenever someone is trying to drive over the line - pretty much every tackle makes head contact - what do we do in that situation?
And that was my problem with Vunipola in this instance. Duty of care goes both ways. If the player with the ball leads with their upper body almost parallel to the ground then that is a mitigating factor. You can bet players will train to run into contact that way.
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@rapido if a player on teh ground has that much time with a pop pass, then the defending team has failed anyway, especially with 15 guys on the field who are good over the ball.
the only time i hate it is when someone has already cleaned past the ball, and the tackled player then pops it. That's taking the piss and should be called back.
I laughed out loud when you said the game hates defenders, when test rugby is basically world war 1 trench warfare.
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@mariner4life said in NH International Rugby:
@rapido if a player on teh ground has that much time with a pop pass, then the defending team has failed anyway, especially with 15 guys on the field who are good over the ball.
the only time i hate it is when someone has already cleaned past the ball, and the tackled player then pops it. That's taking the piss and should be called back.
I laughed out loud when you said the game hates defenders, when test rugby is basically world war 1 trench warfare.
Against the defenders:
Barely lets you defend rolling mauls, barely lets you defend close to your line, until 5 minutes a go didn't let you defend the pad protruding on your goal post, doesn't reward tacklers unless you wrap the ball, punishes the tackler if they slightly get the ball-wrap wrong. Allows sneaky fuck halfbacks to take quick taps not inline with the penalty spot. Allows shepherds.For the defenders.
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@gt12 said in NH International Rugby:
One tricky thing is when players lead with their head. On that one, I'm not sure at all - you see this whenever someone is trying to drive over the line - pretty much every tackle makes head contact - what do we do in that situation
Have more tries
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Plenty of talk in the English press today about the "Break Clause" in Eddie Jones's contract being invoked by the RFU.
It's the briefings to the Press which may portend doom for Jones, and maybe they're looking to axe him now to give time to both find a new coach and give new coach as much time as possible before RWC2023
Eddie Jones faces RFU talks on future with break clause in England deal
The RFU’s chief executive, Bill Sweeney, is to meet head coach Eddie Jones after England’s poor Six Nations campaign
Eddie Jones is facing crunch talks with the Rugby Football Union chief executive, Bill Sweeney, as part of a review into England’s poor Six Nations campaign with the head coach’s contract understood to contain a break clause. Jones is the world’s highest-paid rugby union coach and agreed an extension through to the 2023 World Cup last April. It is believed, however, that it would not necessarily be prohibitively expensive for the RFU to part ways with Jones due to a clause in his contract, similar to that which existed in his previous deal. In that instance the clause was performance related, dependent on how England fared at the 2019 World Cup. -
@mariner4life said in NH International Rugby:
The Eddie Jones cycle is in full effect, he's an incredible coach, but something about his methods always results in this, where the team and the results fall away, and markedly.
Although, this is the second time around for him and England.
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@gibbonrib said in NH International Rugby:
Speaking of second time around, rumours are circulating that Woodward fancies another tilt at the job. I so hope that happens.
Lol. Yeah no worries Clive, rugby has barely changed in the past 15 years...
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@mariner4life said in NH International Rugby:
@gibbonrib said in NH International Rugby:
Speaking of second time around, rumours are circulating that Woodward fancies another tilt at the job. I so hope that happens.
Lol. Yeah no worries Clive, rugby has barely changed in the past 15 years...
This doesn't sound like reality to me. It sounds like somebody starting this up on the fact that Woodward was clearly annoyed with the direction the England team is going in as part of his punditry on the weekend.
Which I might add, is the first time I thought Woodward was actually making a good go of punditry.
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@majorrage said in NH International Rugby:
@mariner4life said in NH International Rugby:
@gibbonrib said in NH International Rugby:
Speaking of second time around, rumours are circulating that Woodward fancies another tilt at the job. I so hope that happens.
Lol. Yeah no worries Clive, rugby has barely changed in the past 15 years...
This doesn't sound like reality to me. It sounds like somebody starting this up on the fact that Woodward was clearly annoyed with the direction the England team is going in as part of his punditry on the weekend.
Which I might add, is the first time I thought Woodward was actually making a good go of punditry.
Well he actually applied for the France job in 2016, so maybe he still has coaching ambitions?
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@booboo said in NH International Rugby:
@bones said in NH International Rugby:
@crucial I'll rephrase, clearly held up.
Nup.
Looked like it was probably held up.
To you, boomer.
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@bones said in NH International Rugby:
@booboo said in NH International Rugby:
@bones said in NH International Rugby:
@crucial I'll rephrase, clearly held up.
Nup.
Looked like it was probably held up.
To you, boomer.
Am not a boomer: I miss by 4 years.
And sorry your Engrish wooshes me.
Ploise exploin?
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@bones said in NH International Rugby:
@booboo it was clear to me, so I should be considered for all future TMO appointments.
How good would that be, with @bones on the TMO desk.
Forget the 'try'/'no try' graphics, you'll get memes and gifs signalling whatever the hell decision he's made up, beer in one hand, durry in the other, feet up on the desk muting the ref when he's trying to talk.
Love it
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@nzzp said in NH International Rugby:
whatever the hell decision he's made up, beer in one hand, durry in the other, feet up on the desk muting the ref when he's trying to talk.
Ben Skeen?
