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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 2, 2024 22:26:17 GMT
Ireland destroyed France 38-17 in Marseille.
No one will stop them from retaining their title.
Erin go Bragh!
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Post by weststigersbob on Feb 3, 2024 8:36:01 GMT
Easily the best team in Europe at the moment.
But with the way the games are refereed now - a team could be completely hamstrung by a red card for a minor ruck infringement or worse, a pure accident that wouldn’t have been a penalty 5 years ago.
2 games like this and your 6 nations is cooked….
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 3, 2024 14:31:42 GMT
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 3, 2024 14:32:54 GMT
Easily the best team in Europe at the moment. But with the way the games are refereed now - a team could be completely hamstrung by a red card for a minor ruck infringement or worse, a pure accident that wouldn’t have been a penalty 5 years ago. 2 games like this and your 6 nations is cooked…. Did you disagree with both yellows for Willemse? |
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Post by weststigersbob on Feb 4, 2024 2:58:55 GMT
Easily the best team in Europe at the moment. But with the way the games are refereed now - a team could be completely hamstrung by a red card for a minor ruck infringement or worse, a pure accident that wouldn’t have been a penalty 5 years ago. 2 games like this and your 6 nations is cooked…. Did you disagree with both yellows for Willemse? If I’m being honest - penalty sufficient for both. Union is going to paint itself into a corner because they keep looking at these instances in super slow mo, and they always look much worse than in normal speed. In both instances though, the head contact is primarily because he is taller than the “offended” player. The second one was ridiculous. If #5 makes the exact same tackle, but from a different angle, it’s not a penalty. |
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Post by Nogbad on Feb 4, 2024 8:10:28 GMT
I don't like international rugby much, and was on my way back from football anyway, so didn't see the match. I have no way of telling whether any of this - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/68194599- is fair comment. It looks like utter shite to me. "Fatalism is bred into these people at birth" These people, uh huh. |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 4, 2024 18:16:55 GMT
Barry John RIP Wales rugby great Barry John has died at the age of 79. The former Wales and British and Irish Lions fly-half died peacefully in hospital, his family have announced. John, who was nicknamed The King by New Zealand journalists after he inspired the Lions’ famous 1971 Test series victory over the All Blacks, won 25 Wales caps between 1966 and 1972, claiming three Five Nations titles, a Grand Slam and two Triple Crowns during his stint on the international stage. www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/feb/04/barry-john-welsh-rugby-legend-and-british-and-irish-lions-great-dies-at-79 |
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Post by weststigersbob on Feb 4, 2024 18:25:28 GMT
I don't like international rugby much, and was on my way back from football anyway, so didn't see the match. I have no way of telling whether any of this - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/68194599- is fair comment. It looks like utter shite to me. "Fatalism is bred into these people at birth" These people, uh huh. What a shit article. Staccato Journalism. Short sentences. Making a big impact. We all know the story. Making a difference. Stupid analogies. My unborn grandchild can write better. |
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Post by Nogbad on Feb 5, 2024 11:59:30 GMT
I don't like international rugby much, and was on my way back from football anyway, so didn't see the match. I have no way of telling whether any of this - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/68194599- is fair comment. It looks like utter shite to me. "Fatalism is bred into these people at birth" These people, uh huh. What a shit article. Staccato Journalism. Short sentences. Making a big impact. We all know the story. Making a difference. Stupid analogies. My unborn grandchild can write better. That guy is absolutely unbearable talking about football on the radio, but tbf he's not alone in that, all his chums on Radio Scotland are just as bad. By all accounts, we were great in the first half and utter garbage in the second, but that article made no mention of the former. I may have overreacted slightly, but perhaps not. It's worth mentioning that Tom English is from Northern Ireland, and folk from there using phrases like "these people" sits particularly badly with me. |
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Post by Nogbad on Feb 10, 2024 15:19:38 GMT
International rugby bores the arse off me, and we're going to lose. Bah!
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 10, 2024 15:47:55 GMT
International rugby bores the arse off me, and we're going to lose. Bah! I prefer it to club rugby tbh. |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 10, 2024 15:52:52 GMT
Mind you, the second half of ScoFra has been awful.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 10, 2024 16:12:13 GMT
Come on, it’s a fucking try you poltroon!
He’s not going to award it though!
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 10, 2024 16:12:36 GMT
Idiot!
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Post by Nogbad on Feb 10, 2024 17:25:26 GMT
Was also just discussing this with my mate, even he (a Finn Russell fanboy extraordinaire) agreed that the decision was correct. If the try had been awarded, there would have been insufficiently clear evidence to change the decision, as with the converse. The rules are clear, the TMO system works and is infinitely superior to VAR in football. And we were fucking pish in the second half, cowering sleekit timorous beasties.
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