RWC QF: Wales v Argentina

[MiketheSnow]

Architects of our own demise

And fuck you Dickson and Jonker

[Jailbreak7]

Good for Argie

[Bones]

Argentina really are warming up nicely eh, trending up every week.

[sparky]

See you in the Semis, Pumas.

[stodders]

Well one thing is for sure, Sir Clive’s accumulator is buggered now 😂

[Jailbreak7]

@MiketheSnow Yes feel for you mate. We constantly shoot ourselves in the foot with the reffing teams. Just a complete and utter lottery. Those decisions could have gone either way. Dire from Jonker, Dickson.

[Victor Meldrew]

@Dodge said in RWC QF: Wales v Argentina:

I’ve literally no idea what the ref is going to give anymore. That could have been red, in the end not even a penalty. Weird

It was the decision I'd like to see in a game - no intent. But in the context of how things have been reffed it was mind-boggling.

If something has changed, why haven't we, the punters, been told? Have the players?

[stodders]

@Victor-Meldrew same thing happened in 2019. Card lottery in the pools, then refs lost their cards in the knockout rounds.

[Tordah]

Jonker: "I need to show you foul play by blue" - ref looks at it and says "no foul play, you agree with me?" - "yes, just felt it was important to show the process"

Another Marius Wonker classic

[stodders]

@Tordah ah Marius. Consistency personified.

[Bovidae]

All we ask for is consistency around the issuing of cards. I bet we don't get it across the other QFs.

[GibbonRib]

@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC QF: Wales v Argentina:

@Dodge said in RWC QF: Wales v Argentina:

I’ve literally no idea what the ref is going to give anymore. That could have been red, in the end not even a penalty. Weird

It was the decision I'd like to see in a game - no intent. But in the context of how things have been reffed it was mind-boggling.

If something has changed, why haven't we, the punters, been told? Have the players?

If I drive my car at 100 through a school crossing but try to avoid the kids, that's ok because I didn't intend to hit them, right?

[Wairau]

@sparky let's hope South win all 4 !

[game_film]

Agree with Dickson there. Player was held up, he came in legally. ‘Tina player saw it coming and pulled it down leaving Tompkins in the way.

[stodders]

Sad end to for Dan Biggar. Congrats to him on a fab international career.

One NH fly half great has been retired this weekend 😬

[GibbonRib]

@Wairau said in RWC QF: Wales v Argentina:

@sparky let's hope South win all 4 !

This Welshman would be happy to see you take 3 - need France to see off the boks

[Victor Meldrew]

@GibbonRib said in RWC QF: Wales v Argentina:

If I drive my car at 100 through a school crossing but try to avoid the kids, that's ok because I didn't intend to hit them, right?

I think a better analogy might driving at 30mph near a school crossing expecting to be nicked as you think the speed limit is 20mph, as no-one told you the speed limit had been raised to 30mph.

[Bones]

@game_film said in RWC QF: Wales v Argentina:

Agree with Dickson there. Player was held up, he came in legally. ‘Tina player saw it coming and pulled it down leaving Tompkins in the way.

Player came in out of control, at chest height, unsighted, at speed to a breakdown, with people are typically bent to chest height or lower.

Just have some fucking restraint and use your brain.

[game_film]

@Bones It wasn’t really a breakdown yet though. Tina player wasn’t on the deck, he caused the drop in height late doors when he got off the train tracks. I was very surprised to see the outcome though.

[Catogrande]

@game_film

I'm with you on this. Just. Just, about the right decision but a long way away from any degree of consistency.

My view on the game itself was that it was the Argy breakdown and the Welsh discipline that determined the outcome.