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Re: Graces Strikes Again!

Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:42 pm
by Joe Schmo
That was stupid from gopperth

Re: Graces Strikes Again!

Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:44 pm
by Russ
Wasps have 3 players
All play in the backrow

All the rest are utter dung

Re: Graces Strikes Again!

Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:45 pm
by Joe Schmo
Russ wrote:Wasps have 3 players
All play in the backrow

All the rest are utter dung
just the opposite of Ulster really.

Re: Graces Strikes Again!

Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:45 pm
by Russ
Joe Schmo wrote:
Russ wrote:Wasps have 3 players
All play in the backrow

All the rest are utter dung
just the opposite of Ulster really.
All tom kite

Re: Graces Strikes Again!

Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:50 pm
by Russ
The worst drop kick in history

Re: Graces Strikes Again!

Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:52 pm
by for dog and ulcer
20 20 fulltime. Leinster in QF. Harlequins out. Wasps have to wait. Goode missed final ball drop goal. Madigan expensive!!

Re: Graces Strikes Again!

Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:56 pm
by Spiffsson
Fair play to Wasps for getting back into it. Leinster imploded in the second half. Boss takes the zing out of any attack. Fitz and McFadden looking keen. Cruel luck for D Kearney. Fanning again does not look up to it at this level.

Re: Graces Strikes Again!

Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 4:18 pm
by bazzaj
Will Greenwood has just made the point about ref consistency and how Harlequins will be as annoyed as anyone.
Was going to start this thread had it not been done already.
People trying to justify the Payne card with any reasonable argument for it, has all gone the way of Anscombe.

Hate the way we are called Kingspan now btw with the sky pundits refering to it as being not an easy place to come to.
Its about as intimidating a name as spamalot.

Re: Graces Strikes Again!

Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 4:33 pm
by for dog and ulcer
bazzaj wrote:Will Greenwood has just made the point about ref consistency and how Harlequins will be as annoyed as anyone.
Was going to start this thread had it not been done already.
People trying to justify the Payne card with any reasonable argument for it, has all gone the way of Anscombe.

Hate the way we are called Kingspan now btw with the sky pundits refering to it as being not an easy place to come to.
Its about as intimidating a name as spamalot.
Haha! Spamalot is better.

Re: Graces Strikes Again!

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 1:36 pm
by UlsterNo9
Just watched the incident, this makes me extremely mad!

Re: Graces Strikes Again!

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 1:39 pm
by UlsterNo9
For the record I think neither are worthy of a red card, but where is the consistency Farces!

Re: Graces Strikes Again!

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 4:38 pm
by BaggyTrousers
Very clear red card, dangerous in the extreme, bottled by Garces. Kearney appeared badly injured, unlike Goode he will now miss matches.

Incomprehensible that the same ref who made the Payne decision, which which had as much as no intent but plenty of stupidity can make that decision on a tackle that had intent aplenty.

Is there a reluctance to red card after 4 seconds that vanishes after 4 minutes? >flog

Re: Graces Strikes Again!

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 4:39 pm
by Russ
BaggyTrousers wrote:Very clear red card, dangerous in the extreme, bottled by Garces. Kearney appeared badly injured, unlike Goode he will now miss matches.

Incomprehensible that the same ref who made the Payne decision, which which had as much as no intent but plenty of stupidity can make that decision on a tackle that had intent aplenty.

Is there a reluctance to red card after 4 seconds that vanishes after 4 minutes? >flog
I think there is a reluctance to give red cards against english sides due to the abuse they will get in the media.
Same they will give red cards in the benefit of english sides.

Not even a conspiracy theory

Re: Graces Strikes Again!

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 5:13 pm
by OldMan
laughable how BOD and Delaglio try to justify the refs decision and now 24hrs later the esteemed pundits now appear to be admitting the Garces made an error. Credit to Joe Worsley last night said Johnson was a lucky lad

Re: Graces Strikes Again!

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 6:37 pm
by Spiffsson
BaggyTrousers wrote:Very clear red card, dangerous in the extreme, bottled by Garces. Kearney appeared badly injured, unlike Goode he will now miss matches.

Incomprehensible that the same ref who made the Payne decision, which which had as much as no intent but plenty of stupidity can make that decision on a tackle that had intent aplenty.

Is there a reluctance to red card after 4 seconds that vanishes after 4 minutes? >flog
The whole business of sanctions for tackles in the air has to be sorted out. At the moment it is just a lottery on how the player falls. If he lands on his head it is red, any other part of his body is yellow. Kearney landed on his shoulder and was out for the entire match; yet he could have landed on his head, remained uninjured and just got up and played on, but it would still have been a red card. So where's the sense in all this. I don't believe in reffing relative to outcomes. The offense should be judged on its own and not by what happens afterwards by pure chance. The offense is taking a player out in the air and should not be assessed by how he happens to fall.