Blues v Highlanders
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It reminds me a lot of Marius Jonker's 2019 fuck up that cost the Crusaders a game in Cape Town.
(start 4mins in).
@tim that headline must be wrong...crusaders dont get bad calls against them
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@tim so we just ignore people we disagree with? generally people on here know at least something about rugby, so if there was disagreement about rules between people that know at least a little then maybe the rules aren't as clear and obvious as we might think
@kiwiwomble said in Blues v Highlanders:
@tim so we just ignore people we disagree with? generally people on here know at least something about rugby, so if there was disagreement about rules between people that know at least a little then maybe the rules aren't as clear and obvious as we might think
Do you think it was a forward pass? If so, how do you reconcile that with the video from World Rugby showing how it goes over the ground is irrelevant?
We don't ignore people we disagree with, but the objection has to be grounded in reality. The law interpretation is crystal clear - forward passes are about relative movement to the runner.
Goodness knows how the TMO figured out their result
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@kiwiwomble said in Blues v Highlanders:
@tim so we just ignore people we disagree with? generally people on here know at least something about rugby, so if there was disagreement about rules between people that know at least a little then maybe the rules aren't as clear and obvious as we might think
Do you think it was a forward pass? If so, how do you reconcile that with the video from World Rugby showing how it goes over the ground is irrelevant?
We don't ignore people we disagree with, but the objection has to be grounded in reality. The law interpretation is crystal clear - forward passes are about relative movement to the runner.
Goodness knows how the TMO figured out their result
@nzzp ive said quite a few times i thought it was ok and would have given it
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@kiwiwomble don't disagree your sentiments mate, I just think people are not able to accept wrong decisions. That's why we went the route of the TMO. It's not working as well as we would like but I can't see us going back.
@crazy-horse said in Blues v Highlanders:
@kiwiwomble don't disagree your sentiments mate, I just think people are not able to accept wrong decisions. That's why we went the route of the TMO. It's not working as well as we would like but I can't see us going back.
Close. People aren't able to accept decisions against their team. Which is how we end up here, and will always end up here.
That "forward pass" ruling is almost the worst thing I have ever seen.
2 games in NZ this weekend. Both threads finish with approximately a hundred posts about the refereeing. And nothing else. Nah, rugby doesn't have a problem. And the TMO has absolutely cleared everything up.
Fuck the TMOs off, stop putting who the ref is in the opening post of the thread. Ignore fans on social media. Fine.coaches looking for scapegoats when they lose.
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@crazy-horse said in Blues v Highlanders:
@kiwiwomble don't disagree your sentiments mate, I just think people are not able to accept wrong decisions. That's why we went the route of the TMO. It's not working as well as we would like but I can't see us going back.
Close. People aren't able to accept decisions against their team. Which is how we end up here, and will always end up here.
That "forward pass" ruling is almost the worst thing I have ever seen.
2 games in NZ this weekend. Both threads finish with approximately a hundred posts about the refereeing. And nothing else. Nah, rugby doesn't have a problem. And the TMO has absolutely cleared everything up.
Fuck the TMOs off, stop putting who the ref is in the opening post of the thread. Ignore fans on social media. Fine.coaches looking for scapegoats when they lose.
@mariner4life said in Blues v Highlanders:
Fuck the TMOs off, stop putting who the ref is in the opening post of the thread. Ignore fans on social media. Fine.coaches looking for scapegoats when they lose.
Honestly, I'd prefer if the ref has to make the call off the big screen. They know what they saw, a quick look at the evidence and it's up to them to change their mind. The TMO should be an assistant there to answer matters of fact only - 'what's the number on the person with the elbow' kind of thing.
Responsibility clear, it's the ref. Clear and obvious is up to the ref, and the ref alone. No one else. Scrap captain's calls, call the ref 'Sir' (or madam these days) and get on with the game.
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I remember O'Keeffe saying in the offseason they put refs in the TMO box cos they thought it would help instead of these people who are only TMOs and not refs (i.e. Ben Skeen who was awful at RWC 2019).
I saw somewhere that this weekend's games were the first games Paul Williams has ever been TMO.
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@crazy-horse said in Blues v Highlanders:
@kiwiwomble don't disagree your sentiments mate, I just think people are not able to accept wrong decisions. That's why we went the route of the TMO. It's not working as well as we would like but I can't see us going back.
Close. People aren't able to accept decisions against their team. Which is how we end up here, and will always end up here.
That "forward pass" ruling is almost the worst thing I have ever seen.
2 games in NZ this weekend. Both threads finish with approximately a hundred posts about the refereeing. And nothing else. Nah, rugby doesn't have a problem. And the TMO has absolutely cleared everything up.
Fuck the TMOs off, stop putting who the ref is in the opening post of the thread. Ignore fans on social media. Fine.coaches looking for scapegoats when they lose.
@mariner4life said in Blues v Highlanders:
2 games in NZ this weekend. Both threads finish with approximately a hundred posts about the refereeing. And nothing else. Nah, rugby doesn't have a problem.
2 games with decisions against the Chiefs and the Blues and approx. 100 + posts on the fern. And you're surprised? Does rugby have a problem or does the fern have a problem? Or do certain teams' fans have a serious problem?:beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:
Clear and obvious backwards pass. Clear mistake from officials. Why is there any discussion? Move on.
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@mariner4life said in Blues v Highlanders:
2 games in NZ this weekend. Both threads finish with approximately a hundred posts about the refereeing. And nothing else. Nah, rugby doesn't have a problem.
2 games with decisions against the Chiefs and the Blues and approx. 100 + posts on the fern. And you're surprised? Does rugby have a problem or does the fern have a problem? Or do certain teams' fans have a serious problem?:beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:
Clear and obvious backwards pass. Clear mistake from officials. Why is there any discussion? Move on.
@old-samurai-jack said in Blues v Highlanders:
Clear and obvious backwards pass. Clear mistake from officials. Why is there any discussion? Move on.
there were only a few posts about Wayne Barnes refereeing in 2007. Bad reffing is bad reffing.
This one is more frustration about incompetence than anything else. Calls into question the point of having a TMO.
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@kiwiwomble said in Blues v Highlanders:
@kruse GPS just isn;t accurate enough but the ball tracking stuff from cricket or tennis might be
You would still have the same problem as now. The ball would still travel forward relative to the ground.
@crucial said in Blues v Highlanders:
@kiwiwomble said in Blues v Highlanders:
@kruse GPS just isn;t accurate enough but the ball tracking stuff from cricket or tennis might be
You would still have the same problem as now. The ball would still travel forward relative to the ground.
But you could measure speed relative to the player who grows it.
How do they get those graphics in 7s where they show the speed of the player running?
But as has been said this was so so simple to work out based on where the ball was relative to Skies after he passed. (If he had been stopped and driven backwards it would have looked worse.)
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@kirwan i was with you until the last line, thats just not true, as @Crucial said, you can throw it over your head and it wont go forward...and there is every angle between that and lateral/90 degrees, its not a case of a single degree off directly behind you and if will fly forward
@winger is right though, it would be a big change, maybe too big, too much to ask for player to run so much deeper
@kiwiwomble said in Blues v Highlanders:
@kirwan i was with you until the last line, thats just not true, as @Crucial said, you can throw it over your head and it wont go forward...and there is every angle between that and lateral/90 degrees, its not a case of a single degree off directly behind you and if will fly forward
@winger is right though, it would be a big change, maybe too big, too much to ask for player to run so much deeper
I think he said it can. ??
Player running forward at 5m/s, throws it back over his head at 3m/s, ball travels forwards at 2m/s.
I think you said you were a surveyor? You dig vectors then.
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@kiwiwomble said in Blues v Highlanders:
@kirwan i was with you until the last line, thats just not true, as @Crucial said, you can throw it over your head and it wont go forward...and there is every angle between that and lateral/90 degrees, its not a case of a single degree off directly behind you and if will fly forward
@winger is right though, it would be a big change, maybe too big, too much to ask for player to run so much deeper
I think he said it can. ??
Player running forward at 5m/s, throws it back over his head at 3m/s, ball travels forwards at 2m/s.
I think you said you were a surveyor? You dig vectors then.
@booboo said in Blues v Highlanders:
@kiwiwomble said in Blues v Highlanders:
@kirwan i was with you until the last line, thats just not true, as @Crucial said, you can throw it over your head and it wont go forward...and there is every angle between that and lateral/90 degrees, its not a case of a single degree off directly behind you and if will fly forward
@winger is right though, it would be a big change, maybe too big, too much to ask for player to run so much deeper
I think he said it can. ??
Player running forward at 5m/s, throws it back over his head at 3m/s, ball travels forwards at 2m/s.
I think you said you were a surveyor? You dig vectors then.
i said he said it can didn;t i?
i am and i do, i was always taught the rue the ball will always beat the man, as in you pass faster than you can run so if im running at at 5m/s i would expect to be able to throw it faster than that
I think we all just agreed to move on without actually saying
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@kiwiwomble said in Blues v Highlanders:
personally i think id rather that was the case then continued arguing over "cleary forward out of the hand" or "clearly backwards out of the hand"...when in reality neither is clear, and the refs having to make subjective decisions which is going to put people off watching
mate, if you think that'll take out the controversy you're completely wrong. All it will do is shift to a TMO trying to figure out if a parallax skewed pass travelled forward over the ground. It'll be a disaster.
also, you'll have the deepest backlines you've ever seen. Flat support will be gone, it'll be all so deep it's not funny. Defenses will love it - and the last thing we need in modern rugby is more defensive advantages.
Edit: the concept that you can give the ball to a player behind you is spot on, and should be maintained.
@winger - have a look at where Akira is when Rieko catches the ball. The ball has gone backwards a long way relative to him, unless he turned on the gas after throwing it
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@mariner4life said in Blues v Highlanders:
2 games in NZ this weekend. Both threads finish with approximately a hundred posts about the refereeing. And nothing else. Nah, rugby doesn't have a problem.
2 games with decisions against the Chiefs and the Blues and approx. 100 + posts on the fern. And you're surprised? Does rugby have a problem or does the fern have a problem? Or do certain teams' fans have a serious problem?:beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:
Clear and obvious backwards pass. Clear mistake from officials. Why is there any discussion? Move on.
@old-samurai-jack said in Blues v Highlanders:
@mariner4life said in Blues v Highlanders:
2 games in NZ this weekend. Both threads finish with approximately a hundred posts about the refereeing. And nothing else. Nah, rugby doesn't have a problem.
2 games with decisions against the Chiefs and the Blues and approx. 100 + posts on the fern. And you're surprised? Does rugby have a problem or does the fern have a problem? Or do certain teams' fans have a serious problem?:beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:
Clear and obvious backwards pass. Clear mistake from officials. Why is there any discussion? Move on.
Because there's some people disagreeing that is was clear and obvious and a mistake from officials. You're directing your scorn at the wrong posters.
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@mariner4life said in Blues v Highlanders:
2 games in NZ this weekend. Both threads finish with approximately a hundred posts about the refereeing. And nothing else. Nah, rugby doesn't have a problem.
2 games with decisions against the Chiefs and the Blues and approx. 100 + posts on the fern. And you're surprised? Does rugby have a problem or does the fern have a problem? Or do certain teams' fans have a serious problem?:beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:
Clear and obvious backwards pass. Clear mistake from officials. Why is there any discussion? Move on.
@old-samurai-jack said in Blues v Highlanders:
@mariner4life said in Blues v Highlanders:
2 games in NZ this weekend. Both threads finish with approximately a hundred posts about the refereeing. And nothing else. Nah, rugby doesn't have a problem.
2 games with decisions against the Chiefs and the Blues and approx. 100 + posts on the fern. And you're surprised? Does rugby have a problem or does the fern have a problem? Or do certain teams' fans have a serious problem?:beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:
You obviously don't know nothing! There is a very clear line that Blues and Chiefs fans just do not cross when it comes to hysterics. Unlike other sets of fans...
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@old-samurai-jack said in Blues v Highlanders:
@mariner4life said in Blues v Highlanders:
2 games in NZ this weekend. Both threads finish with approximately a hundred posts about the refereeing. And nothing else. Nah, rugby doesn't have a problem.
2 games with decisions against the Chiefs and the Blues and approx. 100 + posts on the fern. And you're surprised? Does rugby have a problem or does the fern have a problem? Or do certain teams' fans have a serious problem?:beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:
You obviously don't know nothing! There is a very clear line that Blues and Chiefs fans just do not cross when it comes to hysterics. Unlike other sets of fans...
@crazy-horse said in Blues v Highlanders:
@old-samurai-jack said in Blues v Highlanders:
@mariner4life said in Blues v Highlanders:
2 games in NZ this weekend. Both threads finish with approximately a hundred posts about the refereeing. And nothing else. Nah, rugby doesn't have a problem.
2 games with decisions against the Chiefs and the Blues and approx. 100 + posts on the fern. And you're surprised? Does rugby have a problem or does the fern have a problem? Or do certain teams' fans have a serious problem?:beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:
You obviously don't know nothing! There is a very clear line that Blues and Chiefs fans just do not cross when it comes to hysterics. Unlike other sets of fans...
All sets of fans have their moments.
Would like to point out the Blues fans (and a healthy group of "others") are complaining about a decision in a thrashing won by the Blues.
It's not just sour grapes, it's fair point of discussion. Would hate for any of these games to be decided on a howler like that.
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@crazy-horse said in Blues v Highlanders:
@old-samurai-jack said in Blues v Highlanders:
@mariner4life said in Blues v Highlanders:
2 games in NZ this weekend. Both threads finish with approximately a hundred posts about the refereeing. And nothing else. Nah, rugby doesn't have a problem.
2 games with decisions against the Chiefs and the Blues and approx. 100 + posts on the fern. And you're surprised? Does rugby have a problem or does the fern have a problem? Or do certain teams' fans have a serious problem?:beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:
You obviously don't know nothing! There is a very clear line that Blues and Chiefs fans just do not cross when it comes to hysterics. Unlike other sets of fans...
All sets of fans have their moments.
Would like to point out the Blues fans (and a healthy group of "others") are complaining about a decision in a thrashing won by the Blues.
It's not just sour grapes, it's fair point of discussion. Would hate for any of these games to be decided on a howler like that.
@kirwan said in Blues v Highlanders:
@crazy-horse said in Blues v Highlanders:
@old-samurai-jack said in Blues v Highlanders:
@mariner4life said in Blues v Highlanders:
2 games in NZ this weekend. Both threads finish with approximately a hundred posts about the refereeing. And nothing else. Nah, rugby doesn't have a problem.
2 games with decisions against the Chiefs and the Blues and approx. 100 + posts on the fern. And you're surprised? Does rugby have a problem or does the fern have a problem? Or do certain teams' fans have a serious problem?:beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:
You obviously don't know nothing! There is a very clear line that Blues and Chiefs fans just do not cross when it comes to hysterics. Unlike other sets of fans...
All sets of fans have their moments.
Would like to point out the Blues fans (and a healthy group of "others") are complaining about a decision in a thrashing won by the Blues.
It's not just sour grapes, it's fair point of discussion. Would hate for any of these games to be decided on a howler like that.
You are very noble
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Allow me to whinge about refereeing decisions given against the winning team.
Apparently that never happens.
And I know it's been said, but the Akira forward pass and the Sotutu vicious back charge really were crap. I get how @mariner4life Is losing his shit with rugby after crap like that.
Akira: went back out of his hands, and he was always in front of the ball indicating the ball travelled backwards relative to the player. How come us ignorant slobs on an internet forum know these rulings and the highly paid officials fucking don't?
I can see how they came up with the Sotutu ruling, I just disagree with it (ie., they got it wrong) and assert it was 100% unnecessary to even look at it.
Why have a TMO if they can't get simple decisions right?
There's whinging about whinging on the Saders v Chiefs thread about time taken to review. These were two examples where inordinate amounts of time were taken to review and get the wrong decision.
@booboo said in Blues v Highlanders:
I can see how they came up with the Sotutu ruling, I just disagree with it (ie., they got it wrong) and assert it was 100% unnecessary to even look at it.
Yeah, I didn't have a problem with this decision based on the evidence from the TV replay. Sotutu ended up being in a position where he couldn't catch the ball so became a blocker to Frizell. The collision was likely clumsy and unintentional but did have a material effect on what happened. Robinson actually came off worse in that incident.
The forward pass was a shocker though.
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@booboo said in Blues v Highlanders:
I can see how they came up with the Sotutu ruling, I just disagree with it (ie., they got it wrong) and assert it was 100% unnecessary to even look at it.
Yeah, I didn't have a problem with this decision based on the evidence from the TV replay. Sotutu ended up being in a position where he couldn't catch the ball so became a blocker to Frizell. The collision was likely clumsy and unintentional but did have a material effect on what happened. Robinson actually came off worse in that incident.
The forward pass was a shocker though.
@bovidae i think im the same, under the rules i can understand what it was given
as ive said before, i just dont like straight up accidents having such an effect, but the rules are the rules etc
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The try looks better every time I see it. Running it from your own line after a great turnover, Akira makes a great run and shows pretty spectacular vision and passing skills, and Reiko sprinting to get into position and then burning off the defenders.
O for Awesome.
@kirwan said in Blues v Highlanders:
The try looks better every time I see it. Running it from your own line after a great turnover, Akira makes a great run and shows pretty spectacular vision and passing skills, and Reiko sprinting to get into position and then burning off the defenders.
O for Awesome.
Plus Akira showed great acceleration for a big man..
