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Re: Owen Farrell: Saracens fly-half escapes citing for high
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 10:09 am
by BaggyTrousers
BuckRogers wrote:Snipe Watson wrote:BuckRogers wrote:Not really ones to preach after McGrath got away with a fairly blatant knee in the Baa-Baas game.
He's starting to get a bit of a reputation as a cheap shot merchant. Knee to the back in a non competitive end of season celebration game is fairly low. Not that there is any excuse for it in a competitive game either.
Mind you, if a turnip had dropped the knee on Cheatawalu yesterday, he have got a medal.
Tramped on Rory at the OurDS as well.
Ach, sure doesn't everybody, the Weegies certainly did.
Re: Owen Farrell: Saracens fly-half escapes citing for high
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 10:14 am
by BaggyTrousers
If it's the same incident, on the wireless, I heard it explained that Watson took a hit & was on his way down, more or less making hitting him high inevitable.
Mind you that was the appalling Matthew Dawson, so I expect it was bullshit.
Re: Owen Farrell: Saracens fly-half escapes citing for high
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 10:45 am
by Russ
BaggyTrousers wrote:If it's the same incident, on the wireless, I heard it explained that Watson took a hit & was on his way down, more or less making hitting him high inevitable.
Mind you that was the appalling Matthew Dawson, so I expect it was bullshit.
Watson was in the process of being tackled legally when farrell threw a stiff arm at the side of his head
Borderline red card. Garces would have given it
Re: Owen Farrell: Saracens fly-half escapes citing for high
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 1:24 pm
by Snipe Watson
Russ wrote:BaggyTrousers wrote:If it's the same incident, on the wireless, I heard it explained that Watson took a hit & was on his way down, more or less making hitting him high inevitable.
Mind you that was the appalling Matthew Dawson, so I expect it was bullshit.
Watson was in the process of being tackled legally when farrell threw a stiff arm at the side of his head
Borderline red card. Garces would have given it
There's no place in the game for bring deceased's body parts onto the field of play. Straight red..
Re: Owen Farrell: Saracens fly-half escapes citing for high
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 9:33 pm
by Bart S
Snipe Watson wrote:BuckRogers wrote:Not really ones to preach after McGrath got away with a fairly blatant knee in the Baa-Baas game.
He's starting to get a bit of a reputation as a cheap shot merchant. Knee to the back in a non competitive end of season celebration game is fairly low. Not that there is any excuse for it in a competitive game either.
Mind you, if a turnip had dropped the knee on Cheatawalu yesterday, he have got a medal.
If it had been an english player and an english citing commissioner who had decided not to cite after an incident such as the mcgrath one i suspect people in ireland would have been up in arms. The mcgrath incident looked bad because it was bad and the nature of the game should be irrelevant. IMHO mcgrath was a lot luckier than farrell. Would hate to think that the end of season nature and disruption to world cup plans had any impact on the decision....
Re: Owen Farrell: Saracens fly-half escapes citing for high
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 9:44 pm
by Snipe Watson
Bart S wrote:Snipe Watson wrote:BuckRogers wrote:Not really ones to preach after McGrath got away with a fairly blatant knee in the Baa-Baas game.
He's starting to get a bit of a reputation as a cheap shot merchant. Knee to the back in a non competitive end of season celebration game is fairly low. Not that there is any excuse for it in a competitive game either.
Mind you, if a turnip had dropped the knee on Cheatawalu yesterday, he have got a medal.
If it had been an english player and an english citing commissioner who had decided not to cite after an incident such as the mcgrath one i suspect people in ireland would have been up in arms. The mcgrath incident looked bad because it was bad and the nature of the game should be irrelevant. IMHO mcgrath was a lot luckier than farrell. Would hate to think that the end of season nature and disruption to world cup plans had any impact on the decision....
World Rugby saw fit to mention the McGrath incident along with the Huget stamp. I read that as a very public warning to the unions that they expect indiscipline to be properly dealt with. I applaud that action from World Rugby, citings and punishments need to be consistent and applied without fear or favour.
Re: Owen Farrell: Saracens fly-half escapes citing for high
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 10:32 pm
by BaggyTrousers
Snipe Watson wrote:Bart S wrote:Snipe Watson wrote:BuckRogers wrote:Not really ones to preach after McGrath got away with a fairly blatant knee in the Baa-Baas game.
He's starting to get a bit of a reputation as a cheap shot merchant. Knee to the back in a non competitive end of season celebration game is fairly low. Not that there is any excuse for it in a competitive game either.
Mind you, if a turnip had dropped the knee on Cheatawalu yesterday, he have got a medal.
If it had been an english player and an english citing commissioner who had decided not to cite after an incident such as the mcgrath one i suspect people in ireland would have been up in arms. The mcgrath incident looked bad because it was bad and the nature of the game should be irrelevant. IMHO mcgrath was a lot luckier than farrell. Would hate to think that the end of season nature and disruption to world cup plans had any impact on the decision....
World Rugby saw fit to mention the McGrath incident along with the Huget stamp. I read that as a very public warning to the unions that they expect indiscipline to be properly dealt with. I applaud that action from World Rugby, citings and punishments need to be consistent and applied without fear or favour.
I agree Snipe, when we're at it, would you mind firing off a missive to the SRU and let them know our findings.