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Re: This Is Not Soccer
DIR By: Quinky
Date: September 15, 2018, 1:26 pm
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I haven't seen the game yet, but I really wish the blocking had
been looked at last week...
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Re: This Is Not Soccer
DIR By: flapjack
Date: September 15, 2018, 1:31 pm
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Last week was bad but a bit more in the laws as they were
blocking kick chases and standing still just in the line of the
runners. Today was literally running a mirror line just a couple
of metres in front of earl taking his chance of making the cover
tackle completely out of the possible.
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Re: This Is Not Soccer
DIR By: Thesouthfields2
Date: September 15, 2018, 2:03 pm
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Pious nonsense from the kind of archaic members who nod sagely
into their Ref-radios! The South Stand are right behind our boys
when they need a lift and they pulled one out today. I hope it
doesn't become a regular feature but today it was justified.
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Re: This Is Not Soccer
DIR By: honkytonk
Date: September 15, 2018, 2:06 pm
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I dont mind it. I like the Stoop rocking. Dont want sides coming
here and getting an easy ride.
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Re: This Is Not Soccer
DIR By: harlequins
Date: September 15, 2018, 2:09 pm
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Is this a joke? The referee had a good game apart from this
terrible initial decision. Without the crowd making it very
clear he had missed something then he would have given the try.
It should not need crowd power, and it was not a football
effort, it was most of the crowd staying it had to be reviewed.
The referee then reviewed and realised he had missed it.
The linesman should have seen it and the fourth official seemed
to do nothing all day but thankfully it was finally refereed
correctly - with tv support.
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Re: This Is Not Soccer
DIR By: Archquin
Date: September 15, 2018, 2:27 pm
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The try should have stood as Earle would not have saved it with
or without the blocking - Brew should have been yellow carded
for foul play
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Re: This Is Not Soccer
DIR By: harlequins
Date: September 15, 2018, 2:42 pm
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Yellow card but the try stands???
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Re: This Is Not Soccer
DIR By: DOK
Date: September 15, 2018, 2:58 pm
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The ref was inconsistent and there were a number of laws around
the ruck that he applied, then ignored, then applied...
He pinged us for a not straight line out and when in a perfect
position to see Bath throw something even more crooked, he just
ignored it. So no, I wasn't impressed.
As for the booing, at least it woke the stadium up. It should
never have come to that because the rest of the stadium could
clearly see something that the referee and two assistant refs
could not. Now we come to the meat of it. Carley caved in to the
crowd! He should never have done that. If he believed that it
was a try he should have given it, end of. As it was he let
himself be persuaded by the crowd that there was something to
look at, and he looked at it. Fortunately there was something to
see, but what is he going to do next time he's in front of the
shed at Gloucester? A ref should not let the crowd influence his
decisions - that way lies madness!
I must say, in all the years I've been supporting Harlequins,
I've never heard a storm of boos and catcalls like that. You
have to get it pretty spectacularly wrong to get Harlequins fans
to make that sort of noise. It's usually just the quiet murmur
of conversations going on during the kicks!
It was the incident that woke up a pretty depressed and unhappy
bunch of supporters and turned them into a bunch of supporters
who really rocked the stadium in the final few minutes. So I
can't really decry people (like me) doing it. Rugby has moved on
from the amateur days when losing a game of rugby due to a poor
ref had little impact in the overall scheme of things. Today
it's a business, and people's careers hang on whether the team
wins or loses - look at John Kingston, look at Leicester. If
that try had been awarded we could easily have not scored any
more and we certainly wouldn't have got the LBP. Come the end of
the season, those 2 points could be what keeps us up, what gets
us into Europe or what gets us into the play offs.
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Re: This Is Not Soccer
DIR By: J Scott
Date: September 15, 2018, 3:01 pm
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Can’t stand this high and mighty bullshit. I am south stand ST
holder and a rugby man through and through if you just want to
nod and clap go watch cricket. I’ve seen us go down ii’ve seen
us lift trophies in fact I’ve been watching some 30 years rugb
is becoming more than a turn up and watch its inclusive the fans
and players as one.
Don’t like it move on.
I’ll be there for next home game hope you are too and maybe you
can look down you nose at me if you’re tall enough.
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Re: This Is Not Soccer
DIR By: DOK
Date: September 15, 2018, 3:04 pm
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--- Quote from: Archquin link ---
>
> The try should have stood as Earle would not have saved it
with or without the blocking - Brew should have been yellow
carded for foul play
>
--- End Quote ---
Can't agree. Foul play is foul play whatever the likely outcome
of it not happening. Suppose instead of blocking him he'd
tripped him? Suppose he'd punched him?
It's like someone committing a foul in the ruck when the ball's
coming back your side anyway. Is the ref supposed to say "well
you were going to win it anyway, so the foul had no affect on
the outcome, so I'm letting you off"?
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