Rebels v Hurricanes
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9.27 A player must not do anything that is against the spirit of good sportsmanship including but not limited to:
Hair pulling
Spitting at anyone
Grabbing, twisting or squeezing the genitals (and/or breasts in the case of female players)
OtherMassive virtue signalling by officials to equate a verbal dispute that includes a gesture with hair pulling, spitting or ball squeezing.
Everyone agrees that it wasn’t a good look but this law isn’t about game repute it is about foul play toward others.
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@Dan54 said in Rebels v Hurricanes:
@Crucial I would suggest that the Stan rugby panel achieved their result on Friday night I not sure Ardie will defend it, he has already said he was wrong just we may hear what was said that got him and Numia so fired up.
Jeez it would crack me up if it turned out to be a racial jibe.
Not throwing stones here just imaging the egg on the faces.
Ardie: I tried to put it to bed after the game but as you insisted on dragging things into the court of record, here’s what went down.Citing Commissioner gets cited for bringing the game into disrepute.
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@Dan54 said in Rebels v Hurricanes:
@Crucial I would suggest that the Stan rugby panel achieved their result on Friday night I not sure Ardie will defend it, he has already said he was wrong just we may hear what was said that got him and Numia so fired up.
Shite happens on the field. Sure it didn't look great, but I am sure lots of off colour stuff gets said during a game that the cameras don't pick up. And it's not like he actually tried to kill someone....
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@Stargazer hurt feelings is a big deal these days, plus, he threatened to kill him!
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@taniwharugby said in Rebels v Hurricanes:
@Machpants haha I know, some of the headlines 'threatened to kill' haha wtf.
Is Brian O’Driscoll the citing commissioner now ?
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@MN5 said in Rebels v Hurricanes:
@taniwharugby said in Rebels v Hurricanes:
@Machpants haha I know, some of the headlines 'threatened to kill' haha wtf.
Is Brian O’Driscoll the citing commissioner now ?
That fruit was hanging so low you had to pick it up off the ground...
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@canefan said in Rebels v Hurricanes:
@MN5 said in Rebels v Hurricanes:
@taniwharugby said in Rebels v Hurricanes:
@Machpants haha I know, some of the headlines 'threatened to kill' haha wtf.
Is Brian O’Driscoll the citing commissioner now ?
That fruit was hanging so low you had to pick it up off the ground...
Either that or go into the Foster thread and mention how fat he is
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I haven't seen what Ardie did but it was a throat slitting gesture right? Don't the ABs do the same thing at the end of the haka? I recall a bit of a kerfuffle a few years back about it.
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@Stargazer said in Rebels v Hurricanes:
Bid deal. Tempers were raised and ardie expressed regret afterwards. Much worse is actual physical damage.
Seemed a harsh yellow too
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@Stargazer said in Rebels v Hurricanes:
I've never seen Ardie get that mad before. I wonder that really happened?
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@Stargazer said in Rebels v Hurricanes:
@Winger IMO, it was a deserved team yellow. The Rebels should have gotten one, too.
I haven't seen the full match. But seemed completely over the top from this clip
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@Winger said in Rebels v Hurricanes:
Seemed a harsh yellow too
It was entirely preventable. Why would the captain throw someone out of the scuffle - all it did was escalate the situation.
As for the throat-slitting gesture - it seems like the type of thing in US sport that would be dealt with via a fine not a suspension. However, since that isn't really an option here - I would expect him to be suspended as SANZAAR won't want to be seen to be doing nothing.
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@canefan said in Rebels v Hurricanes:
@Stargazer said in Rebels v Hurricanes:
I've never seen Ardie get that mad before. I wonder that really happened?
I’m guessing he mentioned something about John Farnham wanting his haircut back and it escalated from there
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@MN5 said in Rebels v Hurricanes:
@canefan said in Rebels v Hurricanes:
@Stargazer said in Rebels v Hurricanes:
I've never seen Ardie get that mad before. I wonder that really happened?
I’m guessing he mentioned something about John Farnham wanting his haircut back and it escalated from there
Johnny or even your average 80s WWF wrestler would be very at home with that do
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Hopefully the hearing asks what blue 10 was even doing where he was for Ardie to pull him out of it. If anyone escalated the situation it was him. Comes from 20 metres away to push his way through a melee and get over the top of players on the ground.
He is the aggressor here and gets rightly pull out before doing something even stupider than he already has.
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@Crucial said in Rebels v Hurricanes:
Hopefully the hearing asks what blue 10 was even doing where he was for Ardie to pull him out of it. If anyone escalated the situation it was him. Comes from 20 metres away to push his way through a melee and get over the top of players on the ground.
He is the aggressor here and gets rightly pull out before doing something even stupider than he already has.
Refs first line of thought should have been to see who was mixed in there that shouldn’t have been.He and the assistants had a pow pow didn't they? They just reached a different conclusion. Strayans...
