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Rugby World Cup: Referees To Rule The World
Whoever said the team with the best defence or attack would win the World Cup was having a right laugh. With the Boks chewing over their Burger ban and England's world cup ride going from bad to worse now they've lost Captain Pugwash for two tests (for a naughty ankle tap), it seems that refs and the IRB judiciary are to be the main players when it comes to winning or losing matches and not the actual, er players.
So while everyone starts collectively minding their Ps and Qs; bets are on for the team with the most diminished squad due to citings by the end of the tournament. Scrumbag's pick? The All Blacks (any team with Jerry Collins in it has to be a liability), although we have been known to be wrong before...
September 13, 2007 in Rugby World Cup 2007 | Permalink
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Romania were certainly reffed out of the game against Italy last night.
Whether they deserved it or not I couldn't tell, I think at a lot of breakdowns in reality the inevitable resulting scrum or penalty could go either way and the ref simply gives it to whoever he's feeling warmer to at that moment.
Posted by: Bentos | 13 Sep 2007 11:00:36
Please, someone get some control over these refs! Or better still get the refs to get some real control over the game. Stop all the on-field coaching, that's not the ref's job, he's there to blow the whistle. If the best players in the world don't know the rules, or don't play to the rules (at the end of the day, what is the difference?)the refs should hammer them! Not warn them, and certainly not coach them. This is 100% completely wrong! Rugby players only understand one rule, and that is when they are penalised.
What's the point of stopping the game because a pass "just may have been very slightly forward" on one hand, then completely turning a blind eye to the ball being put into the scrum completely under the hooker's feet?"
Come on refs, shut your mouthy mouths, and blow the game you are reffing. Forget all the coaching, get some control over those wild animals under your care. Then we'll see some real rugby.
And surely one of the most important rules, the offside rules, how can we expect to see a decent game when half of the time most of the players are just a little bit offside. Penalise them when they are just about offside, (and I mean just on the onside side of being offside!), then everyone will definitely be onside, and we'll see a real game of rugby. Let's face it, most sports people spend most of the tiume trying to cheat just a little bit, and this does no good to the game at all. Penalise, penalise, and penalise again, then all the cheats will settle down, and we'll see some real rugby!
It's up to you referees. If the players can get away with cheating, and ruining the game they will. You must create the right conditions in order to get a succesful game.
England were soundly beaten, but wow, all that hanging around in offside positions. That's just not acceptable at this level of rugby.
Posted by: Guy De Maupassant | 15 Sep 2007 08:04:44
Thanks for the info!
Posted by: PinkCat | 28 Apr 2008 15:37:13
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