Cap'n Grumpy wrote:BaggyTrousers wrote:Tighty wrote:Amiga500 wrote:Cap'n Grumpy wrote:Maybe I'm in a minority of three (at least two people with me came to same conclusion) that all the Connacht player did was hold his ground. He's not obliged to get out of Charlie's way, and he didn't change direction. If there was any contact, it was Charlie jumping into him, and he did brace himself for impact, and it did come on his shoulder, but for once I agree with Fitzgibben.
There was no foul play. For all that Charless stayed down and GG was holding his head steady, when he got up, there was no suggestion of a HIA.That to me is proof positive that any contact with the head was minimal. If Ulster wanted to convince the officials that Charless had taken a blow to the head, they should have been prepared to sacrifice him for the duration of an HIA. The fact they didn't suggests to me that they didn't think anything would have come of it.
Me too.
The booing is really starting to fúck me off. There was nothing in it, yer man had committed to the jump/block and could hardly be expected not to defend himself.
If it was a card against us, I'd have been raging.
Re. the vitrol from the stands. Nothing compared to Garces vs. Sarac**ts.
I never thought I would say this , but I agree with the Cap'n on this one
Also as Amiga said, If the situation was reversed and a card had been given to an Ulster player, there rightly would have been a furore on this MB.
Only from the dickheads Tighty.
If you look again, maybe a few times, you will be convinced that I am right when you accept that a player jumping to contest a kicked ball does so with arms positioned to charge the ball, whereas the Westies yute was positioned for impact, arms in, shoulder dipped towards Charles. If you wish to save yourself from impact you do not jump into a player. It's that simple.
Surely jumping into a player with no arms wrapped, shoulder dipped and high is a penalty in anyone's book? I would not have carded him, I think it was borderline for a card but a cert penalty and he could have had no complaint had he got a yella.
Your Honour, the prosecution rests.
The prosecution can rest indefinitely
The judiciary (in the form of the match day officials) have already seen the evidence, reviewed it and found the defendent not guilty!
Oh dear Grumps, oh dearie dearie dear. You saw that one go woooooosh right over your head. You appear to believe that a suitable jjjjjjjjjjury can be comprised of a well-known Ulster hater with a large dollop of previous, to-wit Fitzbastard, the yellow-clad omadon Braceyerself, and poor ould Francisco Murphy, not long deceased as a card-carrying Connacht player who was the only one faultless on the night.
No no no sonny, this case is in the hands of the great jjjjjjjjjjjjjjury of public opinion, not the dross of Specsavers, a selection of twisted Ulster hating whistle perverts from the 3 unjustifiably proud provinces of the Irish Republic. What you refer to is a kangaroo court, presided over by a man whose proudest boast is that he has never ever in his long-legged life given Ulster an even break.
Clancy stopped cheating against Ulster because he knew in his own black heart that he could never plumb the depths of bigotry, hatred and loathing that Fitzwankbucket holds for the good men and true of Alster Ragby. This hateful squat & shortarsed little turd has made his life's work one of thwarting Alster's attempts to rise from the ashes of the Fat Controller's wasted years to world domination, just around the corner, for the unprecedentedly Fit Controller's reign. God save the Queen.