FNRttC FNRttC 2nd October to Southend-on-Sea 2009
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GrumpyGregry
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Tim Hall said:
I'd love to get the Lovely Helen aka Mrs Collins of the history department out on the front of a Pino, if only to convince her that we need to buy one so we can do some 'together' stuff. She accepts, in season, she is a rugby widow as I was playing when we met but the cycling is a new innovation to her and she has never really come to terms with it. Oddly she gets FNRttC entirely but cant see the attraction of MTB or commutting in the rain. (Actually neither can I)
Not sure H mixes with the scientists... I think the humanities lot live in their own little world/staff room, certainly never had a science teacher round our house but I'm sure they are all lovely just like the historians/sociologists and politics peeps I've met.
GrumpyGregry
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Aperitif said:See what happens to a whistleblower Greg?
Good luck.
But imagine what they'd do to each other without me?
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GregCollins said:But imagine what they'd do to each other without me?
My experience is, even with a bit of handbags, each team would eventually sort themselves out and resume play. Apart from the odd dipstick who wants to fight (and every team has one) the vast majority want a good hard game of rugby. I daresay Freud would have something to say about it. Worse offenders in my experience were Essex Police which says a lot.
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The Met Police were quite handy with their "distribution facilities" in my day...do we notice a trend here..?
"Ref, REF! - he called me a name..." Mr Collins - you are the referee. Discuss how to deal with the potentially long-term psychological damage that can occur in such an incident.
"Ref, REF! - he called me a name..." Mr Collins - you are the referee. Discuss how to deal with the potentially long-term psychological damage that can occur in such an incident.
GrumpyGregry
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I played once without a ref, when at uni as a mature student in the Welsh Colleges League. Aber vs Lampeter iirc. Captains agree to be gentlemen we all agree to play nicely. Match abandoned after about 20 mins. First 5 mins fine. Then the first disputed call at a ruck. Then it went downhill. The cheating was rife, the retribution brutal (regrettably I was team enforcer and some of it was from me) and both captains agreed the bar was a more appealing place to be. Don't remember what we told the league.
Played once with a home club ref who didn't have a clue. Had never reffed before as it turned out but appointed ref had broken down or something. September '85 First away game after I got married. I was only Deputy enforcer that day, had Big Joe at my side at lock and Psycho Bill at hooker. After the third line out I was actually afraid for my safety for the first time ever on the pitch. Sucker punches, gouging, biting, stamping, the lot. Ref not seeing any of it. Or rather seeing it but not having a clue what to do, after all these are his club mates....
Huge high tackle went in on our winger. Out cold and out for the rest of the season. Nothing. Not a sausage from the man with the whistle. 20+ man brawl erupted. Once it calmed down we walked rather than play on. They jeered us all the way back to the changing rooms.... next time we played I put my opposite number in an ambulance. They were a police side too.....
Players can't ref themselves.
Played once with a home club ref who didn't have a clue. Had never reffed before as it turned out but appointed ref had broken down or something. September '85 First away game after I got married. I was only Deputy enforcer that day, had Big Joe at my side at lock and Psycho Bill at hooker. After the third line out I was actually afraid for my safety for the first time ever on the pitch. Sucker punches, gouging, biting, stamping, the lot. Ref not seeing any of it. Or rather seeing it but not having a clue what to do, after all these are his club mates....
Huge high tackle went in on our winger. Out cold and out for the rest of the season. Nothing. Not a sausage from the man with the whistle. 20+ man brawl erupted. Once it calmed down we walked rather than play on. They jeered us all the way back to the changing rooms.... next time we played I put my opposite number in an ambulance. They were a police side too.....
Players can't ref themselves.
GrumpyGregry
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Aperitif said:
Depends on the name he called him and if I heard it.....
"Ref, REF! - he called me a name....", "Speak to me through your captain please and call me SIR THIS ISN'T A SOCCER PITCH"
"Knock on Sir!", "Sorry lads the cricket season is over and I'm not an umpire so we will have no appealing thank you!"
"sir, SIR! - he just punched me", "I didn't see it. I'll have words and if I see him do it again I will deal with it, in the meantime I suggest you stop whatever you are doing to annoy him!"
More seriously we are told to take a zero tolerance approach to verbal abuse of opponents and team mates and sledging and foul language at U18. Quite funny in some of my games where effing and blinding is the lingua franca of the locale but you have to tell them to stop when they are on the pitch.
Of course the C word is the worst, when aimed at the referee, when its a pretty instant RC.
The 5 letter one
Cheat.
I accidentally knocked out the ref. in the last five minutes of a game against Old Tottonians once. Was following a long throw ball with my eyes at the end of a line out on our touchline and pushed past some silly idiot at the end of it. What was he doing there? Play went on and I collected the ball and kicked for touch. Big congregation of people around unconscious ref. Ambulance on field. Ref. to hospital. Seriously unintended and accidental.
Seriously unintended and accidental.
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Sadly I can't make this ride. Sister and her BF are visiting London that weekend and I'll be boozing with them on the Friday night and out at a Christening on the Saturday. Hope to see you all on the November one though!
GrumpyGregry
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ChrisKH said:I accidentally knocked out the ref. in the last five minutes of a game against Old Tottonians once. Was following a long throw ball with my eyes at the end of a line out on our touchline and pushed past some silly idiot at the end of it. What was he doing there? Play went on and I collected the ball and kicked for touch. Big congregation of people around unconscious ref. Ambulance on field. Ref. to hospital.Seriously unintended and accidental.
Two fractured ribs and a broken toe my worst to date. dont get in the way of a driving maul.
as for refs standing in the zipper position at tail of line out... usual regarded as indicating a lack of fitness on behalf of said ref and an unhealthy obsession with straightness of throw. far worse offences to manage than that and you can't manage the backs offsides from there.
