Comments on: Positives and negatives from the Australia game http://www.therugbyblog.com/positives-and-negatives-from-the-australia-game/ Wed, 07 Aug 2019 22:03:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.10 By: Don P http://www.therugbyblog.com/positives-and-negatives-from-the-australia-game/#comment-407921 Fri, 07 Dec 2018 10:07:45 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=49271#comment-407921 Dear AlexD, In response & to another of yr rants, TRB is not only my whole life, it’s my ONLY life & is also known as ‘The Good Life’! Surprised you haven’t heard of it.

Besides, how else could I, er, ‘atavistically monopolise’ the top of the blogs list? You seem envious. But, seriously, I only do this to ensure that I don’t have to endure your drivel. There’s no room left for it! A kind of community service really. I’m also on commission.

Mind you, as you’ve been absent for so long, fortunately it’s not been too difficult to out post you. Did you undergo an HIA, then were you detained @ HM’s pleasure, but accidentally released?

As for drinking with you (you cannot be serious!? OTOH, I can see that a pint of Wallop around yr head has it’s attractions) to talk about as much, or as little, rugby as I like, um, is there an option for 100% less than ‘little’ please? I’d rather stay home & chew tin foil, if that’s alright with you.

Whatever.

Merry Crimbo & Best wishes.

A well wisher.




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]]> By: Don P http://www.therugbyblog.com/positives-and-negatives-from-the-australia-game/#comment-407920 Fri, 07 Dec 2018 09:56:12 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=49271#comment-407920 AD, not surprised I’d interested in Dublin or Cardiff either. Might lose as per NZ, although that was @ home wasn’t it?




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]]> By: AlexD http://www.therugbyblog.com/positives-and-negatives-from-the-australia-game/#comment-407905 Thu, 06 Dec 2018 16:33:02 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=49271#comment-407905 Nope……here as usual unfortunately for you. Bet you wished I had left the blog though.
No doubt you’re a lovely guy in the flesh and all this yaada/banter is your male way of making up for something thats absent!
A pint Don. Come on….don’t be scared.




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]]> By: AlexD http://www.therugbyblog.com/positives-and-negatives-from-the-australia-game/#comment-407904 Thu, 06 Dec 2018 16:29:00 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=49271#comment-407904 Nope….just the next time England go up against NZ – not so interested in the rest!
Anyway why so coy about a pint of wallop?




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]]> By: Don P http://www.therugbyblog.com/positives-and-negatives-from-the-australia-game/#comment-407897 Thu, 06 Dec 2018 09:10:23 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=49271#comment-407897 Srry AD, I didn’t quite catch that. Haven’t done another runner have you ? Here’s hoping.




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]]> By: Don P http://www.therugbyblog.com/positives-and-negatives-from-the-australia-game/#comment-407880 Wed, 05 Dec 2018 21:36:45 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=49271#comment-407880 AD, I just remember the scoreboard! This horse has bolted. Too late to shut the stable door. Better luck nxt time, in Dublin or Cardiff, maybe?




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]]> By: AlexD http://www.therugbyblog.com/positives-and-negatives-from-the-australia-game/#comment-407876 Wed, 05 Dec 2018 20:29:43 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=49271#comment-407876 Nope….I was just betting you cr*pped your pants and thought your world was over as it seems from your atavistic monopolisation of this site that the rugby blog is your whole life. Pint any time Don….the 12 month offer still stands and then you can talk rugby with me face to face for as long or as little as you want.




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]]> By: Don P http://www.therugbyblog.com/positives-and-negatives-from-the-australia-game/#comment-407866 Wed, 05 Dec 2018 10:38:36 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=49271#comment-407866 AD, are you Pablito’s mother? Happy as you when the ref disallowed England’s ‘try’ v NZ. Still decision made, move on, huh? Bet you were gutted fella. Cried into yr pint pot did you? ‘Talk’ about toughening up. Still, it’s good to condone illegality. Farrell to kees doing it? Train crash waiting to happen. Will he go for action replays in the 6N’s, WC? Will it be yellow, or red? Even someone as dumb as you must know that he’s made himself a ref’s marked man? Look fwd to the day, eh? Get that pint pot, or is it mug, ready again?




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]]> By: AlexD http://www.therugbyblog.com/positives-and-negatives-from-the-australia-game/#comment-407829 Mon, 03 Dec 2018 19:51:52 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=49271#comment-407829 Toughen up Don! Pablito’s just highlighting, with relish I suspect, how a slightly built English back smashed an Aussie forward backwards! It was all ‘good’ rugby – surely! A bit illegal yes……twas a bit ‘naughty’!
I am sure that EJ gave him a good spanking in the English changing room afterwards!
Happy now Don?




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]]> By: Blub http://www.therugbyblog.com/positives-and-negatives-from-the-australia-game/#comment-407825 Mon, 03 Dec 2018 18:39:27 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=49271#comment-407825 Well firstly, I should say that I am not a ref with considerable experience. I have considerable playing experience, and a lot of coaching experience. Refereeing is very much my third ‘skill’, and my reference to it was really in regards to try to portray how difficult it is to make every decision the absolutely correct one by the letter of the laws (as I always expected others to do when I played and coached!).

I take his point on Farrell being off-balance, however if it was a penalty then surely it stopped the try scoring opportunity, so…

In terms of interpreting actions, I absolutely agree with him. I was at a junior game this weekend where the ref generally ignored all offsides, apart from the VERY obvious, as none of the offsides were cynical (more clumsy) it did not spoil the game in any way. In fact it was a cracking game.

I wouldn’t suggest this was the approach that International refs should take, but it was interpretive and it worked.




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]]> By: Don P http://www.therugbyblog.com/positives-and-negatives-from-the-australia-game/#comment-407809 Mon, 03 Dec 2018 09:44:25 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=49271#comment-407809 Acee, maybe.




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]]> By: Don P http://www.therugbyblog.com/positives-and-negatives-from-the-australia-game/#comment-407808 Mon, 03 Dec 2018 03:21:06 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=49271#comment-407808 SJ, no reply button again, but conversely, maybe England too will rue leaving Cipriani out.




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