Comments on: Rate the match: Wales v Australia http://www.therugbyblog.com/rate-the-match-wales-v-australia-2 Rugby Union opinion and discussion, for the fans, by the fans. Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:02:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 By: Paul Knight http://www.therugbyblog.com/rate-the-match-wales-v-australia-2#comment-352971 Sun, 08 Jun 2014 14:25:48 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=30523#comment-352971 7months on; Was at the Aussie game with an Aussie friend and I am still bemused by Wayne Barnes decision to allow final try by Tomane…. Conclusion: Is rugby more corrupt than soccer?

]]> By: Pontylad http://www.therugbyblog.com/rate-the-match-wales-v-australia-2#comment-180976 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 14:12:01 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=30523#comment-180976 I think McKenzie was the only one who actually that two way ref link ;-)

]]> By: brighty http://www.therugbyblog.com/rate-the-match-wales-v-australia-2#comment-179897 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 18:23:39 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=30523#comment-179897 Some wag at the Wales v Aus game had a sign offering two-way reflinks for fifty quid. My hand was in my pocket before I realised the joke. It would be such an amazing idea, but a little bit rough on the ref.

]]> By: Blub http://www.therugbyblog.com/rate-the-match-wales-v-australia-2#comment-179783 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:56:01 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=30523#comment-179783 Ref!!!!!! (I do hope that is an ironic nom de plume)

In addition to the wise words from Brighty. The TMO does not make the final “dicission”. The on-field ref is the sole decision maker on the pitch.

He can of course – under certain circumstances – take advice from another official, but that is all that it is – advice. Fortunately, it is usually the case that the TMO knows the same laws as the ref, so looking at the same replays, they can often make the same determination.

There is no time element to “Advantage”, and not arrogantly, but factually, the ref is sole judge of whether or not a team has gained an advantage. The Advantage ends only when the ref determines that the non-offending team cannot gain an advantage.

It may be a little more contentious, but I am quite happy to watch the ref at a game, in fact I do enjoy taking on the ref-link, and hearing him too. Don’t forget that the game doesn’t happen without a ref, but it can certainly continue with reduced numbers of players :-)

]]> By: brighty http://www.therugbyblog.com/rate-the-match-wales-v-australia-2#comment-179693 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:51:17 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=30523#comment-179693 “A forward pass is if the ball travels forward as in relation to the pitch from a pass or touched by the upper body” – that may well be your opinion but it is certainly not the law of the game.

]]> By: REF!!!!!! http://www.therugbyblog.com/rate-the-match-wales-v-australia-2#comment-179602 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:40:11 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=30523#comment-179602 I was of the understanding that a scrum was deliberatelly wheeled if one side of it went back and the other side stood its ground or went forward. A forward pass is if the ball travels forward as in relation to the pitch from a pass or touched by the upper body. The referee takes advice from a second official eg. a forward pass is made and if that is not enough he can refer to the fourth official the TMO for his close up analasys to give his final disission. Advantage is normaly played for short time if there is foul play is made. The Wales v Australia game was a brilliant game. Up there with the Ireland v New Zealand game but the Wales v Ausralia game was spoilt by another arrogant official who think they are more important than the men who put their bodies on the line and provide us with fantastic rugby entertainment. I am Welsh and proud of it. Thank you Australia for a great MATCH

]]> By: Eric the Red http://www.therugbyblog.com/rate-the-match-wales-v-australia-2#comment-178561 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 23:23:08 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=30523#comment-178561 Hope the ref enjoys his free holiday in Brisbane. He was good in the first half but had a shocker in the second half with several poor decisions and the linesman, who must have seen some of it, and the TMO didn’t help him out.

When you see one of the Aussies making the forward pass sign as the replay is shown on the big screen it speaks volumes.

]]> By: Pontylad http://www.therugbyblog.com/rate-the-match-wales-v-australia-2#comment-177900 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 12:32:18 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=30523#comment-177900 Coaches whinging about the ref is certainly bad form and something creeping in from football we could do without .I excuse the fans in Cardiff though on Saturday night who were calling Barnes parentage into account (yours truly not excluded ) as if you can’t follow your team with a certain amount of biased emotion then what’s the point of going ,we aren’t all capable of sitting there as if we were checking our monthly bank statements .

Looking at the highlights it’s clear that the Aussies in fact blew a few chances so they could have been out of sight in any event . I also have absolutely no doubt that if NZ had been playing against 14 men with 5 minutes to go with a penalty to the corner they would have won .

Australia look nothing like the team that played England and at the moment you would put them favourites to top that World Cup group . So that would leave Wales and England fighting for the second place which to be frank emotionally might well suit us .Might be worth buttering up my relatives who are members of English clubs and taking out a second mortgage to get tickets for that match .

]]> By: James http://www.therugbyblog.com/rate-the-match-wales-v-australia-2#comment-177875 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 12:12:25 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=30523#comment-177875 Leagues a bit of a weird one though. Considering the enormous gulf between the top three sides and everyone else. You would think Australia NZ and England were the only three countries with pro rugby league teams…

]]> By: Jacob http://www.therugbyblog.com/rate-the-match-wales-v-australia-2#comment-177790 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 11:20:40 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=30523#comment-177790 Agree with you Blub, it was Samson Lee, good player. But he is still very far from being in Adam Jones league.

Agree with Pablito on the pack yesterday; although I said back row in my post, I agree that the locks were not great either. I do want to exclude Faletau from my comments though, really rate him. Lydiate just looked so poor IMO, so far off the pace.

Line outs were definitely a mess; not sure what went on but it certainly needs to be addressed.

]]> By: Pablito http://www.therugbyblog.com/rate-the-match-wales-v-australia-2#comment-177767 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 10:59:09 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=30523#comment-177767 North is a monster in attack, but still needs to sort his defence out. On a number of occasions he didn’t trust the man inside him to make the tackle and came in as well, leaving space on the outside for the Aussies to exploit – which they did very effectively

Welsh flankers and second row were poor yesterday. Totally outplayed in the tight. Lydiate is not the man he was and Warburton went missing. Tipuric improved things. Alyn Wyn Jones and Ian Evans were ineffective – too slow to the rucks and often driven backwards in the tackle.

Not enough scrums to judge the front row, although Jenkins seems a lot slower. Hibbard did ok but seems to get isolated easily on his runs.

As for the line-outs, I think most of the blame goes to the jumpers. There was one Welsh line-out when Hibbard threw in and absolutely no-one jumped – god know what went on there

]]> By: Blub http://www.therugbyblog.com/rate-the-match-wales-v-australia-2#comment-177731 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 10:30:17 +0000 http://www.therugbyblog.com/?p=30523#comment-177731 Jacob, that round fella who came on late in the game at Tight Head looked half decent from what little I saw of him.

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