Affentitten Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Gee guys, you should get a better coach! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce90 Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Don't you just love it!!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_j_rambo Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 ? What The ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Other Means Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 The All Blacks Jon, not all the blacks. ...I think. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSgt Viljuri Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Is it because these brutes think they would look thinner in black? With matching handbags to hurl, perhaps? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Affe's right - we should have got ourselves a better coach.......half the country thought so last year......but I'm from Canterbury...what would I know??!! How long is Roobbie Dean's contract for?.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted July 27, 2008 Author Share Posted July 27, 2008 30 turnovers from NZ. Unprecedented. Every time the Blacks got the ball we just had to wait 10 seconds to get it back again. What a hardcore game though. Some great attacking from everybody and a ref who was judicious in his application of the whistle and prepared to let the game flow. But how those players can walk the next day is beyond me, given the constant battering they get. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Yeah he let the game flow....especially when the Aussies were cheating!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted July 27, 2008 Author Share Posted July 27, 2008 What's amazing is that if you loook at the stats http://stats.rugbyheaven.com.au/rugbyheaven/rugbygame4.aspx the ABs are ahead in virtually everything except points. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 They fixed that up tonight tho. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce90 Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 Oh well. At least I've got the title of this thread as my wallpaper 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted August 2, 2008 Author Share Posted August 2, 2008 They fixed that up tonight tho. Fixed things up?? It's like they just swapped scripts. Or jumpers or something. Christ. I've never seen a more aimless effort by the Wallabies. Just keep bombing the ball straight up the middle of the field and hope something comes of it. How about that Fijian linesman? He certainly wasn't ready for the big league. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 We fixed up the score thing about the AB's having fewer points - 58-44 aggregate over the 2 games. You should blame the coach for the rest of it The Fijian's not ready? Why's that then? Because he wasn't pinging only the AB's? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 No, because he'd come out and say things like "I saw a black player and a gold player swinging their arms." And the ref would say "Which numbers?" and the Fijian guy would just shrug. And the ref would say "What do you reccommend?" and the Fijian guy would just shrug. Happened about 3 or 4 times. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 Yep well you can't call what you don't see, and if he didn't see eth nubmers what do you expect him to do? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 See the numbers? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 Well if you call a stoppage on a game, the linesman needs to be able to provide a case for why. He's there to assist the ref, not just throw mud in the water. If for some reason he can't see the numbers on either player involved in a two-player incident, he certainly should be at least providing an opinion on what happened and what the outcome should be. But that's a minor quibble. We had the better of the ref in the first game, you guys had it in this last one. The fact is that the refereeing didn't really come into it as far as the result. We were hopeless and the ABs were clinical. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Jeez if that's the worst you can say about him of then he should be on the elite panel and be the main ref not just an assistant ...given some of the howlers the big boys have perpetrated lately!! I don't think there was any great "getting the better of the refereeing" in either game personally (apart from that blind bastard and the penalty try!) - the AB's played like a provincial "B" team in the 1st one and the Wallies played well...the AB's stepped up to where they should be in the 2nd one...the Wallies didn't shift - they played just as well IMO, but that wasn't enough so they got overtaken and left in the dust! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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