Tuesday, September 27, 2011
rugby officiating
i have said this 100 times but seems like water off a duck's back to many, then post cup we will have to listen to the usual tripe bout how this team won because they did this or that. The reality is refs will have a huge hand in deciding what team makes it how far, and as we surely havent seen the last bit of controversy in this cup, will quite possibly decide the semis, finalists & even the eventual champ. Sepp Blatter would be in heaven controlling our sport if people really did like debating refereeing incompetency.
keep reading the comments for the crap that's been whistled up so far this world cup.
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steve walsh makes a howler to gift the frogs their 1st try vs the japs. After the frenchman fielded the kick, was tackled, & the whole jap pack drove over the top, the same frenchman got back to his feet (with the ball in hand!) and ran off down field to set up the 1st 5pointer. A mammoth error in the scheme of things & putting a gutsy jap team on the back foot through no fault of their own.
ReplyDeleteAdd to that in the same movement a tackled yashvili plays the ball for a 2nd time in what should have been a penalty for the japanese on their own goalline.
Once again incompetent reffing rules the day.
the whole set up is a joke at moment. Cant believe the calamitous comedy that is rugby officiating is being glossed over. You have to be totally ignorant of the sport not to see it. Ironic that the reffing order is to clamp down on scrums & the ruck area when they are the 2 parts that refs have shown they have absolutely no clue whatsoever. If bryce lawrence is regarded the top trinations ref what does that tell us about the standard of refereeing?
ReplyDeleteare referees ever going to penalise brussow for turning over countless amounts of ball while on 2 knees?
ReplyDeleteInteresting to hear that fran steyn said "that" penalty went over. Then the argument over using the tmo to check???...a tmo has no anfgles & no mathematical logarithm to work that out. ONLY the linesman can see that...if they cant even control that then thats a perfect fit for today's officiating.
a few 50/50 decisions over the final period of wales samoa all seemed to go wales way. Also 2mins to play samoa on the welsh line & a welch turnover....i would have given a samoan penalty & adam jones a yellow for holding the ball illegally.
ReplyDeletekaplan lets the poms away with murder vs georgia. In a replay of what they did vs the pumas the english insist on playing at the ball while in the tackle. Kaplan took a age to warn them, then warn them again, then 2 mins later could have yellow carded 2 of the tight 5 at the same ruck for this very offence yet him and the (5m from the ball) linesman chose to ignore it. One yellow card for 80mins of cheating. Even Barnes said Kaplan was weak.
ReplyDeleteOnce again a minnow stuffed by an (intimidated?) incompetent ref.
Clancy & co intimidated by the Boks in the Namibia game? How else can you explain the numerous off the ball incidents that went unpunished?
ReplyDeleteDave Pearson had a shocker in the japan tonga game. Fighting for 3rd spot in the group to ensure qualification for the next cup and he yellow cards arlidge for offside when he was clearly onside. A big call taking a team's 1st5 off them for 10mins. Add to that the english touchjudge who flagged a tongan in the dying seconds for a shouldercharge tackle, got the wrong player, stopped a japanese attack from a quickly taken penalty for another offense allowing the tongan defence to reassemble, then top marks to pearson to going back 5m for this offence when the later offence was upfield.
ReplyDeleteTop marks to Clancy for impeding not 1 but TWO American defenders & allowing the Italian ballcarrier to waltz through what became a large hole untouched. The resulting period of pressure resulted in a try.
ReplyDeleteLater awarding a scrum turnover to the Americans because the scrum had rotated 90°....funny, seemed more like 45° to me.
Mind you we saw this guy's incompetence in the ABs Boks game where he showed total disregard for protocol to disallow an AB try. Let's face it...the guy looks like a badminton player, that's where he should stay.
Allain Rolland stopping play to talk to both teams in the All Blacks France clash then allowing Yashvili to take a quick tap when the ABs were still standing 2m away and the frogs scoring? First he whistled to stop it then after a small injury timeout ended up awarding it? Keystone Cops. Would normally say dirty French after that & seeing Yashvili's dive (reminiscent of 1 George Gregan)for Kaino's "elbow" but let's bbe fair...the guy is Romanian or Georgian or something. Won't make many fans in NZ doing that.
ReplyDeletescots vs poms
ReplyDeletejoubert calls a non existent knock on by danielle, misses a clear one from tuilagi, then another by the scots.
And matt stevens should have been penalized off the park.
scots needing try to get through to 1/4s...scottish ruck on english 22...tuilagi enters rucks from side. result english scrum. turnover.
ReplyDeleteFollowing scrum..illegal scrummaging from poms...english penalty.
joubert having a weak game.
Boks Samoa
ReplyDeleteTouchjudge Barnes, no stranger to controversy flagging Jannie Du Plessis for slapping Schwalger when it was only retaliation for the same offence. All game long(and a common Bok ploy these days) the Boks were masters of being told to leave the ball yet infringing for that extra second often resulting in a turnover, at the least slowing the opposition ball down.
Penalty on the Samoan lock Thomson for going in the side when he clearly went through the middle of maul. Result 3pts to the Boks. Huge kick from Steyn, 57m.
Penalty on Lemi for not releasing....come on, he wasn't even close to being held. Owens' decision halting a strong Samoan foray into the Bok half, the defence at 6s & 7s. Quite possibly a try costing decision.
Boks trying to maul over line early in 2nd half, 3 or 4 players clearly no part of maul and clearly trying to only clear path for ball carrier even diving on ground over line to make it difficult to defend. Justice the TMO couldn't give the try on the footage available. Time for refs to smarten up on Bok mauling practise...it turns the art into a sham.
13-5 Boks, Peterson's hand swiping at the ball while clearly off his feet at Samoan ruck 1m from the Springbok line. The defence in disarray, what was obviously cynical play, should have been a yellow card & clear call penalty try. South African turnover and a real match deciding decision from Owens. When questioned by Schwalger responded "Yep they were all back behind the last feet, I was watching it"...??? What was he watching? Their arses? Weak weak weak.
Red card on Williams? A punch that was actually a palm in the face. And stating Brussow was hitting Williams' arm because was being held...I saw bout 3 clear smacks to the back of Williams' head. All from a touchjudge 3m from the action but still managing to get it all wrong.
Then the yellow on Smit? Crazy call. Still, put both teams down to 14 for last 10mins and 2 bad calls evened it out. Still...bad, bad officiating. Diabolical.
Yet what would a rugby game be without absolute crap dished out by the officials?
isnt it about time props actually had something to grip onto? with all the resets added to the complete lack of knowledge shown by refs do they need a whole season to decide to put a better grip below the sleeves? apart from the safety factor...
ReplyDeletejust seen ABs Canada. Now when a ref misses a 5m crooked lineout throw you know you are gonna get some shocking calls. This twerp frog missed everything that was forward while calling play back for quite a few that didnt even exist. I dont believe he knows rugby has an advantage law either.
ReplyDeletefor the uninformed and ignorant here are a couple examples of the state of the rules of rugby.
ReplyDeleteThe lawbooks guidelines for when the ball is actually regarded as out of play contradict themselves. Result is often it comes down to a touchjudge's interpretation. Thats a joke.
The current tackle release law is a shambles. If you tackle an opponent close to the line the new law says you have to release. However, releasing him allows him, under the laws of the game, to reach out for the line. What would you do?...and what should a ref call??
If world cup soccer refs cant get it right when they only have to call offsides, fouls and when the ball actually crosses the line into the goal....then how on earth are the misfits we have running round gonna be capable of getting a rugbby match correct?
Viva Sepp Blatter
the most inconsistent decison i have seen this cup...
ReplyDeleteRussia v Australia...Russia kicks off and the ref calls them back for man in front. Bizarre
embarrassing for a ref when a frontrower gets 1 over you outside of scrum time. Wales_Ireland 1/4, ref calls Irish scrum inside Welsh half but before it sets time ticks over. Welsh prop points out stadium clock to Joubert so he whistles halftime. I'd be embarrassed.
ReplyDeleteHow about making players take penalties from where they were actually awarded? Every kicker in the game tries to pick of extra metres by running well past the mark when clearing.
ReplyDeleteThis is where one of the major problems with refereeing lies. The officials start allowing a grey area that over time slowly gets bigger & bigger until the rule itself becomes a joke.
dying minutes 1st half French English 1/4...Cueto held back with a possible try on the cards.
ReplyDeletethe entire Australia South Africa game. Bryce Lawrence is seriously weak. He simply has to dropped from the international board.
ReplyDeleteAlain Roland you ruined a world cup semi final. A red card? Where's the consistency??
ReplyDeleteIrish Bet agency Paddy Power refund all losing bets on wales semi, result of warburton's shocking red card
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