Red Card Lottery at the weekend
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@gt12 said in Red Card Lottery at the weekend:
I was happy with that call, the Argentinian was just too high and clocked him in the head. I'm not sure Argentina needed a man rubbed out for 50 minutes though.
The 20 minute red would have made this game much more interesting - I went straight to bed.
The non call on this tackle on Dmac is one I can't understand at all.
There was a call. It was “boomfa”.
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@kiwiwomble said in Red Card Lottery at the weekend:
its the same when a player never takes his eye off the ball in the air...its very hard for him to know if someone else is jumping for it
You answered yourself in the very same post, but surely you can see how reckless that is?
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@bones my point is it can be a circular argument
if the player isn't watching the ball and jumps, competes, but doesn't get it...its quite likely he'll get done for not having a realistic chance of regathering...how could he...but if he never takes his eye of the ball...its hard to know where other players are...do he could go up...but the only thing stopping him getting it is another player...he didn't know about because he was watching the ball
In this case, hes tried to watch both and decided to tackle rather than go for the ball, even drops into the tackle, what he hasn't seen is the wales player drop slightly upon catching and so they go head to head to shoulder to shoulder
yes, starting point is RED but for me there are mitigating circumstances
You can see the ground covered and both go from standing to crouched and a second doesn't pass
I know, its just me, i hate seeing these red cards where in my mind there is no malice past past trying to make the perfectly timed tackle, i see it very different to the DMac tackle for example where hes lined him up from a mile away, and even then on first watching i tought it was just a huge hit, only on the reply did i click the hit to the head
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@kiwiwomble you can't just decide you're going to ignore players, that's reckless and pretty silly in a game where there's 29 other players. "He only had eyes for the ball" is a stupid argument that doesn't apply to any other part of rugby.
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@bones you do understand what im saying though, we also hear people say, if theyre not watching the ball that they cant have had a realistic chance of regathering. and the line between the two is razor thin and were handing out the ultimate punishment for it
In this case i think he times almost everything perfectly, its in less than a second both players drop resulting in an accidental (in my eyes) contact to the head, which would mitigate things
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@kiwiwomble said in Red Card Lottery at the weekend:
@bones you do understand what im saying though, we also hear people say, if theyre not watching the ball that they cant have had a realistic chance of regathering. and the line between the two is razor thin and were handing out the ultimate punishment for it
In this case i think he times almost everything perfectly, its in less than a second both players drop resulting in an accidental (in my eyes) contact to the head, which would mitigate things
Am I the only one here with peripheral vision? It's a pretty disingenuous phrase if you ask me - you're never "just watching the ball". That's what makes it even worse for me.
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@bones peripheral vision s much better side to side than up and down
nearly a third smaller, so when tracking a ball almost directly above you your vision whats directly in front of you is going to be less than ideal, combined with the tiny timeframes were talking about...it just seems harsh to say there were no mitigating factors, but im happy to accept that's just me
I dont want punishments to be as big a part of the game as they currently are, even penalties. I was always taught that penalties/YC/RC were degrees of punishment for deliberate cheating or foul play...not negative results of direct competition for the ball....but as above, i may well have to accept i am in the minority
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@bones I’m not even sure what that one means sorry
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@kiwiwomble they turned their head sideways, result! You can see the tongue firmly in the cheek even.
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@kiwiwomble said in Red Card Lottery at the weekend:
@bones my point is it can be a circular argument
if the player isn't watching the ball and jumps, competes, but doesn't get it...its quite likely he'll get done for not having a realistic chance of regathering...how could he...but if he never takes his eye of the ball...its hard to know where other players are...do he could go up...but the only thing stopping him getting it is another player...he didn't know about because he was watching the ball
In this case, hes tried to watch both and decided to tackle rather than go for the ball, even drops into the tackle, what he hasn't seen is the wales player drop slightly upon catching and so they go head to head to shoulder to shoulder
yes, starting point is RED but for me there are mitigating circumstances
You can see the ground covered and both go from standing to crouched and a second doesn't pass
I know, its just me, i hate seeing these red cards where in my mind there is no malice past past trying to make the perfectly timed tackle, i see it very different to the DMac tackle for example where hes lined him up from a mile away, and even then on first watching i tought it was just a huge hit, only on the reply did i click the hit to the head
Well there's a shock, Kieran Hardy is 1.85m tall (I was expecting him to be much shorter)
So even with a 30cm loss in height for knee bend and shoulder slouch and 20cm for ground to over the boot height, that still leaves a 1.35m target zone.
Great tackling technique, poor execution.
First contact to ball carrier's head.
Clear red.
Aim lower, be more accurate.
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There it is. Layed out. Korobeti's is not even close to a red. Not even on the same ball park.
Rugby has lost its fucking mind
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@mariner4life said in Red Card Lottery at the weekend:
There it is. Layed out. Korobeti's is not even close to a red. Not even on the same ball park.
Rugby has lost its fucking mind
He was too high and as a result ended up shoulder to head. I would've probably sided with yellow, but look, if we want players to be more careful and they're not learning, red card makes sense.
Think they need to bring in the 20 minute red card and player is replaced though.
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@bones said in Red Card Lottery at the weekend:
@mariner4life said in Red Card Lottery at the weekend:
There it is. Layed out. Korobeti's is not even close to a red. Not even on the same ball park.
Rugby has lost its fucking mind
He was too high and as a result ended up shoulder to head. I would've probably sided with yellow, but look, if we want players to be more careful and they're not learning, red card makes sense.
Think they need to bring in the 20 minute red card and player is replaced though.
Our friends in the NH, namely the poms and I think the Scots voted down the 20 minute red card. It ain’t happening.
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@bones said in Red Card Lottery at the weekend:
@mariner4life said in Red Card Lottery at the weekend:
There it is. Layed out. Korobeti's is not even close to a red. Not even on the same ball park.
Rugby has lost its fucking mind
He was too high and as a result ended up shoulder to head. I would've probably sided with yellow, but look, if we want players to be more careful and they're not learning, red card makes sense.
Think they need to bring in the 20 minute red card and player is replaced though.
Totally agree.
I think 99% of people on here care greatly for player safety, and 80%+ want some movement away from reds meaning 14-man rugby after a non-malicious incident.
But I can't understand why people are choosing this incident as the hill to die on to make theit point. This isn't him in the defensive line, squaring up to make a hit and having a player adjust his height at the last minute to make incidental contact. This is a bloke running 25m at pace to try and make a huge hit, and he doesn't get nearly low enough. He chose his height, and it was blatantly wrong.
It's also a fucking shoulder charge which nobody seems to care about. His arm is pointing down, not wrapping around.
Shit tackle, right result.
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I believe the shot was high and dangerous and he had plenty of time to aim lower. The issue is the impact a red usually has on the game and spectacle. Credit to Australia here but imagine WC Semi, full strength French side and it would likely be a different result.
I personally would prefer a red to be 10 minutes and not replaced. Reds used to be very rare and for when you bit off another players ear. Now we seem to have reds every weekend.
It is a team sport and one players brain fart or poor technique can fuck it for everyone. I just hope common sense prevails at some point.
