The "other" round 4 Super Rugby games
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@Nepia said in The "other" round 4 Super Rugby games:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in The "other" round 4 Super Rugby games:
I reckon it was fair enough. It was a swinging arm right round the neck.
Btw it's not the first time penishead has been carded for that swinging arm.
Fuck him and fuck the Reds for wasting their time and money on him.
Hmmm, me thinks you may be a wee bit biased against Quade .... (Me I'm happy for the Reds to waste their money across the board).
Just watching the replay again, it's a high tackle, not a swinging arm.
It that wasn't a swinging arm then it was pretty fucking close to it.
Yes I hate Quade but I'm happy enough to see red cards for those.
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Okay, so not a stiff arm like Luatua. The tackled player had the ball, unlike TNW in Luatua's tackle.
But unlike TJP last night, Cooper didn't go for the ball but for the player.I think TJP's yellow was correct. Luatua's red was correct. Now, somewhere in-between fits Cooper's high tackle.
Haven't seen the citing yet.
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definite YC, RC seems harsh and this is where I feel something needs to be done due to the risk of ruining a game with 15 v 14 for 35 mins...but thats me.
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@MajorRage said in The "other" round 4 Super Rugby games:
Watched brumbies vs tags ... brumbies were worthy Of the points I thought.
What was worrying though ... the crowd. Expected 30k plus for this match but doubt it was even half that. Worrying times for oz rugby fans.
You can only blame the weather so much, too. It has been pissing down on and off the last week or more, but that doesn't explain all of it. I remember when we had 44,000 to a Brumbies game at the SFS in the early noughties, but could only manage 32k in the 2014 major semi.
The fact is, rugby is on a downward spiral in Australia, and Sydney in particular. I'm hearing Junior signups are down 30% across Sydney competitions, for example.
The game isn't in front of enough eyeballs, and quite frankly the quality of our domestic teams isn't worthy of enough eyeballs. Cutting teams won't actually help any of them get better, because the system is broken.
Park footy (Suburban Rugby) is suffering for a lack of playing numbers, while support from higher powers is near nonexistent, and volunteers are experiencing burnout at a rapid rate. The big change in the demographics playing rugby have contributed to this; a lot of guys work Saturdays now, or night shifts and can't make training.
A lot of the guys simply don't want to help with the volunteering aspect of it, and/or think they're superstars who don't have to pay fees and that everything is put on for them. To put a fine point on it, the Kiwi and Islander guys at our club are the hardest to get money out of. They'll rock up to training in a brand new V8 ute but cry poor at a rego deposit of $100 and say "we don't pay rigo at home, bro!"
They guys who DO pay are usually there for a bit of fun, and getting pounded physically and on the score board by guys nearly twice your size is NOT fun, by definition.
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I remember this kind of thing well. Pricks bitch about subs, then blow that amount on piss after a game. If they don't pay they shouldn't be allowed to play.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel not fucking wrong. Or they'll stick $50 into the pokies right in front of you.
One guy is out partying every weekend - and I know because I'm friends with him in FB - then suddenly he's moving house or can't afford anything. Nek minnit: checks into a new gym he's not been to before.
They're like fucking children.
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@NTA said in The "other" round 4 Super Rugby games:
@Rancid-Schnitzel not fucking wrong. Or they'll stick $50 into the pokies right in front of you.
One guy is out partying every weekend - and I know because I'm friends with him in FB - then suddenly he's moving house or can't afford anything. Nek minnit: checks into a new gym he's not been to before.
They're like fucking children.
You ain't wrong.
One team I played for (which were so shit I'm embarrassed to have been associated with them) were the senior team of a club with a very strong juniors club. I coach there now actually.
A heap of these pricks just wouldn't pay their subs. The Juniors president came up one evening and very politely and reasonably asked that people pay their subs. The response was this guy getting slagged off and the Juniors being vilified as some kind of evil landlord. Christ it was embarrassing, particularly when most of these piston wristed gibbons were hitting the piss at least 3 times a week.
But yeah, it was always the guys who paid their subs and helped out who got fucked over. Always.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel coaches get big eyes when finals approach. This year, as President, I've given my coaches strict instructions that nobody takes the field unless they're financial. All three coaches are onboard with that. If we forfeit games, so be it.
