RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool B)
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Why would you cut away from getting the Namibian coach’s interview...?..amateur hour from spark sport ..!
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@Machpants said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@Machpants said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:Just let them fall over then attack the ball fuck heads.
I'll say this again, these guys are falling. Let them but the ground
Until of course they don't and you just let a bloke straight through the defensive line.
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@Machpants said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:Just let them fall over then attack the ball fuck heads.
Not that simple, Ofa was committed and had begun his "lunge" into the tackle. There's really not much he could have done to avoid neck contact there, other than not try to wrap his arms. However, if he did that, it would be a shoulder charge and he'd be looking at an even worse sanction. So, I guess you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
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@mariner4life said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@Machpants said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@Machpants said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:Just let them fall over then attack the ball fuck heads.
I'll say this again, these guys are falling. Let them but the ground
Jordie amazing 80 and 80 in 4 days. ALB and Ardie other top 3.
Jordie for canes 10
At full speed that decision cannot be made, it's ridiculous to even suggest it
Yep and as soon as they blow past they just get up and run again. If they're near the line you're just letting them score.
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@Bones said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:Yeah, I'm not sure why you have to attack a player that's already half tackled. The swinging arm isn't good and not in that manner.
The issue is that you have to wrap the arms and grasp them in order to make a tackle. If he falls over, he's not tackled and he can get up and go again. Imagine it's close to the try line and an attacking player "falls over", you leave him alone and he gets up and goes again - you're probably going to concede a try.
So, you have wrap the arms to make a tackle and stop that guy getting up and going again. However, when he's falling, there's very little of the body that you can wrap your arms around. Even when you try to wrap safely - as someone said above, with a "vertical arm" - you're still likely to get some incidental contact on the neck or head. This is because there's not really any other safe way to make a "legal" tackle in those situations.
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@Stargazer said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@Rembrandt said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:honestly what do you do when an opposition is at knee level? Do you just stand down?
Analysis from ITV (Bloody good, BTW ) saying it was for a swinging arm.
And questioned what a player is supposed to do with his limbs when falling down
Just fall on your head, apparently. Can't use your arms to break your fall, because they might touch someone's neck or head.
But then you're at risk of doing a shoulder-charge, which is arguably a much worse offence. Again, you're damned if you do, damned if you don't
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Wow sometimes you can't stop some one scoring a try. Well done to the attacking player. If the only way you can stop a try is kick a player in the head cos they're lunging on your outside, you don't do that. Same applies, don't swing your arm into their head, or shoulder. It's illegal. Works both ways, make sure you dive when you go for the line
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Comments before I read the thread.
Flush the dunny on that first half.
Aaron FFS you're fucking Aaron Smith. What the fuck was that?
Ref made some really random calls to keep Namibs close, the van Jaarsveld flop over the ruck then penalise Whitelock, followed immediately by the forward pass in midfield as an example.
Jordie's first two kicks worried me but he was goid from the tee after that.
Our ruck work was incredibly untidy in the first forty.
Why did we take so long to work out that Laulala's 10 minutes was up?
POTDs for me were Ardie, Frizell and Jordie.
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@Machpants said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:Wow sometimes you can't stop some one scoring a try. Well done to the attacking player. If the only way you can stop a try is kick a player in the head cos they're lunging on your outside, you don't do that. Same applies, don't swing your arm into their head, or shoulder. It's illegal. Works both ways, make sure you dive when you go for the line
Well if we adopt your idiotic suggestion you can replace "sometimes" with "always".
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@booboo said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:Comments before I read the thread.
Flush the dunny on that first half.
Aaron FFS you're fucking Aaron Smith. What the fuck was that?
Ref made some really random calls to keep Namibs close, the van Jaarsveld flop over the ruck then penalise Whitelock, followed immediately by the forward pass in midfield as an example.
Jordie's first two kicks worried me but he was goid from the tee after that.
Our ruck work was incredibly untidy in the first forty.
Why did we take so long to work out that Laulala's 10 minutes was up?
POTDs for me were Ardie, Frizell and Jordie.
Oh yeah. How good was van Jaarsveld? What a pain in the arse was he? Not always legal but fun to watch.
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@mariner4life said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@Machpants said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@Machpants said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:Just let them fall over then attack the ball fuck heads.
I'll say this again, these guys are falling. Let them but the ground
Jordie amazing 80 and 80 in 4 days. ALB and Ardie other top 3.
Jordie for canes 10
At full speed that decision cannot be made, it's ridiculous to even suggest it
At 120 kgs , you have you legs bent . Crouching, assuming good low body position and he dives in , its fucken difficult to make adjustments split second
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@Nepia said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@booboo said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:POTDs for me were Ardie, Frizell and Jordie.
Did you not notice ALB on the field - easily the best player on the park.
He gets the next vote after 3 2 and 1
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@kiwiinmelb said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@mariner4life said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@Machpants said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@Machpants said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:Just let them fall over then attack the ball fuck heads.
I'll say this again, these guys are falling. Let them but the ground
Jordie amazing 80 and 80 in 4 days. ALB and Ardie other top 3.
Jordie for canes 10
At full speed that decision cannot be made, it's ridiculous to even suggest it
At 120 kgs , you have you legs bent . Crouching, assuming good low body position and he dives in , its fucken difficult to make adjustments split second
No apparently you just back out and leave him. No sweat.
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@booboo said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@Nepia said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@booboo said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:POTDs for me were Ardie, Frizell and Jordie.
Did you not notice ALB on the field - easily the best player on the park.
He gets the next vote after 3 2 and 1
So 4 points.
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@junior said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@Stargazer said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@Rembrandt said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:honestly what do you do when an opposition is at knee level? Do you just stand down?
Analysis from ITV (Bloody good, BTW ) saying it was for a swinging arm.
And questioned what a player is supposed to do with his limbs when falling down
Just fall on your head, apparently. Can't use your arms to break your fall, because they might touch someone's neck or head.
But then you're at risk of doing a shoulder-charge, which is arguably a much worse offence. Again, you're damned if you do, damned if you don't
One of the ITV studio comms (ex Irish rugby player) suggested just using his chest. I'd love to see how that works
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@Rembrandt said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:honestly what do you do when an opposition is at knee level? Do you just stand down?
I guess you have to let him fall and try to stop 8 metres of rabbiting.
At the tryline it's now essential a player dives close at shin height.
