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Blazing Saddles
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He’s just ridiculous. Constant bleating into Ridley’s ear.
Blazing Saddles
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Blazing Saddles
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Saracens getting all the officiating breaks….
Blazing Saddles
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Good win for Bath.
I thought TNT had the European cup games back, but they don’t.
So I am glad that I took up Premier Sports Black Friday deal of 5 quid a month for a year.
I thought TNT had the European cup games back, but they don’t.
So I am glad that I took up Premier Sports Black Friday deal of 5 quid a month for a year.
Dorset Boy
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It's because 4G pitches rips your kness to pieces and it's easy to pick up an infection
Dorset Boy
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That's a BIG win, especially coming back from 14-0 down.
Farrell is a tw@t - he really should have been told early in the first half to zip it, or get penalised and eventually carded.
Mind you, Daly was also giving it some whilst setting up the kick he missed. Perhaps if he had focusses solely on the kick rather than influencing the ref, he might have nailed it.
Farrell is a tw@t - he really should have been told early in the first half to zip it, or get penalised and eventually carded.
Mind you, Daly was also giving it some whilst setting up the kick he missed. Perhaps if he had focusses solely on the kick rather than influencing the ref, he might have nailed it.
Rusty Nails
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From what I see of rugby these days the officials take a much more flexible view of forward passes, straight line-out throws as well as the ridiculous putting the ball into a scrum.
Pross
Veteran
Crooked lineout throws are legal now if the other team doesn’t compete. It’s an attempt to stop teams just staying on the ground to counter a maul. There was one in the Bristol game yesterday where Northampton only jumped when they saw it hadn’t gone straight but the ref didn’t fall for it unlike the commentator who kept saying ‘but they were competing’.
The forward pass law allows for momentum and the officials generally just look for hands pointing backwards as the ball leaves them. I understand why they’ve brought it in, the idea being if you are running forward the ball can travel forward even if the pass is aimed backwards but you get some shockers. There was an NZ try last week from a pass made one side of a line that was received the other side and the player that made the pass was stationary so momentum had no part in the ball going forward.
Pross
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But only one or two players wear them and their arms aren’t covered
Getting dangerously close to the same thinking as cyclists shaving their legs there. 😉
Rusty Nails
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I understand this but, as I said, this allows a lot more flexibility from referees, which can lead to more mistakes, or at least, questionable calls. This is now part of the game, and it can be used positively to encourage a faster, more attacking game but it is bound to increase the scope for criticism of decisions, especially the more difficult ones involving the effect of momentum.
Beebo
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Right then.
Can anyone justify why the World Cup draw takes place 2 years early?
Whilst loads can change, it does seem odd to have NZ and SA in the same quarter of the draw.
Can anyone justify why the World Cup draw takes place 2 years early?
Whilst loads can change, it does seem odd to have NZ and SA in the same quarter of the draw.
