Freedom of speech in its purest form. He was free to say it but not free of the consequences of saying it.
If he didn't share the same values of the ARU then he had every opportunity to not sign that contract but he signed it so tough shit. Now hes hiding from his boss like a little bitch. If I were his agent, I would be sooo pissed right now.
My 9 year old just got up and said fuck England and fuck this ref. In front of his grandmother. Then stormed up stairs saying yeah yeah I know time out but seriously fuck both of them. Hard to punish him when that's pretty accurate.
@ARHS said in RWC Week 1: Wales v Fiji:
Just watched this. Absolutely disgusted by the inconsistent and error-ridden display by the officials that ruined this match.
Fair play to Wales for playing the ref and bitching at everything. It clearly makes a huge difference. Amazing that a clear tackle headshot by Biggar was waved past given the scrutiny of Fiji.The only upside is that it wasn't the AB's on the receiving end this time around.
He is scheduled to handle the NZ Italy game.
I hate it when people bitch about the Ref, because so rarely are they the difference. But he was the difference.
Wales will probably cop some shit with their very clever game management and cynical penalties. But they don't deserve it they are under the pump at home too and they did what they needed to win. Carley letting them do it is total and utter incompetency and shows he doesn't command the necessary authority to ref a game at this level.
I am sorry but when you have warned a team to restart and they slow walk back to the half way. Stopping the clock is not acceptable. That behaviour needs dealing with. Then when they do it a second time to say nothing you are letting the teams walk all over you.
Hi performance was so bad it made me post after 6 years of lurking on this site. Unreal!
We did it. Sunday dinner with the in-laws tomorrow should be tasty. Hopefully by then I can hear all about how they were cheated!
Sam Cane take a bow you. Nobody would have begrudged you talking some shit after that to the totally anonymous Irish back row. But you just shake their hands and wish then well.
You're a better man than any of us here on the fern that's for sure!
Took my eldest to his first Top 14 game on the weekend. Awesome dad experience. He was so excited the whole game and the Racing people really put on a show with the pre match intros. Racing won by a point and it was a great atmosphere. Already planning the next game to go to.
Went to check him last night before going to bed, and he had snuck into his rugby kit to sleep in.
He is a decent person. I know from personal experience. When I worked at the Linwood Warehouse, he would come in just before Xmas and personally buy 1000's of dollars worth of kids toys, all to give away to kids who parents can't afford them.
Like the dude literally pushes trolley after trolley to the checkouts. When I saw what he was doing I got the boss down to talk to him. He said he didn't want to make a big deal of it and didn't want it in the papers, but the boss would swing him 10% off the lot anyway.
He gave us shit for not having his radio station on. I gave him shit for playing rugby for Sumner. All round decent bloke.
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Whatever happens in this game I would like to see this 2 Haka thing put to bed. I have never been okay with it. It smacks of us picking and choosing who is worthy of the special one and who is going to get the contractually obligated one.
Will they do Kapo Pango this week because they are hurt from their loss and have departing players. Or will they do Ka Mate because who honestly cares about a 3rd place play off and Wales are losers as well.
We look like total cocks pulling out our special haka, and then getting spanked.
Choose one or the other. Or one for home and on for away.
But this special haka thing just gets on my nerves.
Having had the weekend to absorb the loss I thought I would throw in my 2 cents.
Firstly well done the Lions you got there in the end. Plenty of teams would not have gotten over the line but you found a way to win ugly.
For the ABs I have to say even down to 14 I thought we would still win it. Mostly due to what I thought was tactical brilliance from Hanson. Subbing a forward was clearly something they had planned for as it happened almost immediately. It sucks for Kaino but our 7 man pack was more then competitive against the Lions 8 and that is purely down to conditioning. Every one of those blokes put in a shift and they got so close. I suspect if Cruden had passed that balls to the forwards and asked them to hold it for 5 minutes they would have.
But thats not us we play to win not to draw, was still a shitty option.
I can understand people are frustrated with SBW for what happened but I think people need a little perspective. He is not even close to being a serial offender wasn't his last card in 2011 that was 6 years ago. If you balance it up against the good stuff hes done I think hes still the kind of player you want around. So this talk of him never wearing Black again or people booing him needs to be put to bed. Its over no one will regret it more then him.
Vunipola on the other hand should count himself very lucky, in my view that was a straight up targeted shot. He saw it was Barrett and he went hard in on him. It was cheap as well as Barrett was rolling out of the ruck, and there was no other defender so he had no need to even enter the ruck, the ball was available. I think if the contact was any heavier we could have been down a fly half. I would be surprised if he was selected for the 3rd test, he didn't really bend the line and his discipline sucked.
For the SOB incident, it makes me really wonder if the way the Refs are implementing the head high rules needs some adjustment. One thing in common with a lot of the rulings that have been very inconsistent is that its not normally the tackler that is at fault, but more often the tackler assist. We see it here with Sean, with Sonny and even the Cane incident in Ireland. He was coming in as the assist but Henshaws spin caught him. I think as the assister there is a much greater risk of these sorts of accidents. For one you have a player who is in the process of being tackled that will normally be lowering there head as they move toward the ground. This puts it right in the tackle zone for anyone attempting the assist. Then you have huge amounts of force in the collision and the way that acts on the players is not easy to predict, making any assisted tackles a lot messier. The inverse is also true in a one on one tackle with two players colliding both have a good idea of where their bodies should be, to effect a safe tackle at impact.
I really don't know how to deal with that. I would like to see slow motion replays used less as I think reducing the time gives the impression that the players have a choice in their actions and for a lot of cases in the assist I don't think they have much of one. What they committed to 2 steps away is what they have to go through with.
I was happy with Laumape, thought he was good considering the circumstances. Reiko needed to be busier. He can't afford to run hot cold like that and needs to go looking for the ball a bit more rather then wait for it.
One final thing all of the international French Refs are totally fluent in English, please don't give them this excuse as a crutch for a poor performance. They don't need it if they are not communicating with their team properly its not down to language skills.
Well a big bunch of you seem to hate what the PM said. But I can tell you over here in France , its making news and its been really well received. It was a 1 minute clip for gods sake.
I don't know what the issue with what she said is. She said we pride ourselves on our hospitality. Which we do or we did when I lived there. She said the government will support the police in anything they need to close the case. And she said she should have been safe here and she wasn't.
I share some of her sentiment, Is it the use of the word shame? I feel embarrassed or ashamed it happened in New Zealand. I tell loads of people to go visit, you'll love it. There is a big difference between that and feeling responsible!
Whether its reality or not, people internationally perceive NZ as being a very safe place. If this had happened in Mexico I highly doubt it would have got the same level of attention.
She didn't say its all white dudes fault, she didn't say its the fault of all kiwis. She apologised to a parent that their child won't be coming home. Seems like a really human thing to do and really the least she can do under the circumstances.
Imagine it flipped a young kiwi backpacker dies in Paris. She's pretty and white so the media give a shit about it and ask the French president to comment. How would you feel if he said "Well the police are looking into that, nothing to do with me" That would be pretty cold.
You may not like the PM, I am hardly a super fan myself, but to get your panties in a bunch because she apologised to a grieving family, that the media were bound to ask about, that's what is triggering you? Really.
Scott Barrett massive unsung hero tonight. The work he got through unreal. Nothing flashy but he just tackled and hit rucks all night. Some motor!
I am not surprised by this reaction at all. You never beat the Irish they are always the victims of some injustice it seems. But if they beat you, oh you better be a good loser take it in your stride and accept it or you will never hear the end of it.
Source: Wife is Irish.
So what's been going on.
Well after years of being in a pretty good place with my health and my weight. I have had a rough few years and things have started to slip. While COVID is the catalyst for my issues the reality is that I have probably lost focus slowly over time.
So the stats I am now 10Kg heavier than where I want to be. 88Kg at last weigh in, and I have been there for nearly a year. While in the past I was able to just hit a hard calorie deficit for a few months. Something has changed, maybe its getting older, maybe its working from home 100% now but the self control is gone and I haven't been able to get it back. I can put in a few weeks then one bad day and its a shit show. I just go nuts.
The level of activity is good I am still running a lot, and I even put in a home gym and get out to it a couple of times a week.
That's the physical side on the mental side it has absolutely wrecked me. Its bought up a lot of stuff from my past even going back to being a kid. Self confidence is gone, self worth the works.
So what's the plan.
Friday I will do a week recap on here to say what I have done and what goals were hit. But at the moment the plan is simple 4 Strength workouts, 3 Runs, log all my food and keep it around 1800, journal daily, with an emphasis on trying to be a bit kinder to myself.
@Salacious-Crumb said in Aussie Rugby in general:
Folau targetted eight groups, including atheists and adulterers, as going to Hell. I haven’t repented yet. I guess that means I should be twice as outraged and incensed and offended as LGBTQers.
It's not a competition. He tweeted his views on a subject his employer contractually forbid him from tweeting on. He got fired. Stupid is as stupid does
An I the only one who thinks we will pump them?
We did in the first test, and then if not for a dodgy penalty, and a try with more obstruction then an Enron lawyer we nearly beat them with 14.
I feel more confident for this match then most others it seems.
Listen to all of you, letting the liberal elite mainstream scientists tell you how to live your life. Well if you had made any effort to understand the average Hamiltonian maybe your preferred candidate would be in office. Instead you were to busy telling us how smart your "science" is and how dental care works.
The people have spoken so now you can all fuck off. And cry yourselves to sleep cuddling your tubes of tooth paste.
I think that is what we say now when shit like this happens.
So Porter has been cleared.
I don't understand this game any more.
Just been told my wife is away and its on at the rugby club so I don't have to watch it surrounded by my Irish inlaws.
So week off to a good start.
Game day here in France. Sadly not much atmosphere since France got knocked out. But also not many neutrals either. Everyone I've spoken to wants a New Zealand win.
Feeling pretty laid back about it. If you asked me before the France game I would have happily taken a final but now that we are here I hope the boys put together a performance like the Ireland match. That way win or lose we put it all out there.
12 hours till kick off going to be a long day.
Rain won't bother us. Will make Barnes sympathetic to slips at scrum time. We need that fast start though want to see the spirit of athletic park 96 out there! Can't watch and comment on this one. See you on the other side boys!
We got this!
I need a better job. I am just back from NZ with 3 kids We flew economy with the baby on the knee. If I ever needed a glimpse of hell I got it.