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'Mockery', 'broken game', 'laughing stock': Rugby rages as red card reversal clears Owen Farrell for World Cup
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Didn’t have the intestinal fortitude to make the call based on the video evidence. May be they didn’t want the perceptio…(more)
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The people who accept the charge are guilty. The people who don’t must be proven guilty. Proving people guilty is alot…(more)
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To be fair FunBus, that was a small (albeit pointed) part of the bigger point around consistency.
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But lots of people still called it a red because they didn’t know all the mitigating factors. Where do we find the list…(more)
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How do we prove he had enough time to react. Good luck finding any player that in a room can stand like Farrell and the…(more)
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Does anyone think an all England panel would do this for a Wallaby?
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I think any player with the same legal team would have got the same result. I would guess its not hard to find cases in…(more)
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Ask any none English speaking country how they feel playing English speaking teams with all the ref communication in Eng…(more)
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Welcome to professional sport, same happens in soccer. Also because rugby is English speaking centric it affects the pr…(more)
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I’m not even sure it’s that the rules are badly written. I think it’s an evolving situation unfortunately. They are tryi…(more)
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If you don’t understand or accept 10s often get special treatment and are more open and vulnerable to borderline late sh…(more)
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There’s stupid, beyond stupid, Owen Farrell and then the people that let him off the hook…. 😡 😡 😡
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He got off on the technicality of the ball carrier changing directions because he was pushed. That in itself opens up a …(more)
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Yes Sexton’s ban was mitigated to five weeks because he admitted guilt and sent an apology email to Tony Spreadbury the …(more)
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Was he sent off for an illegal tackle or a legal tackle that hit the player in the head. It might not matter to us but …(more)
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i wonder how well England are going to do at this world cup, even australia looks like they can beat them …well too.!!
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me thinks your are English, or close enough …. move on Soutpiel
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ah here is the show … a Bok/Saffa hater ….
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Judges look at the “spirit” of the law, not the “form.” The mitigation was based on the unexpected lowering of height by…(more)
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Ah firstly, I dont get too rude to ppl on here and have tried to be polite but right now your ignorance is standing out …(more)
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Sorry @jameswm, I didn’t construct my post properly… I was trying to suggest (clearly not well enough) was that there’…(more)
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So Rassie were right after all….different strokes for different folks.
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Seems that the Aussie panel missed it all.
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Live by the sword die by the sword …. forwards launching at you is every backs job to deal with not just his, respectf…(more)
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The Aussies had a price 😂
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I finally worked out what KC stands for – King-size Cop-out.
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So what you are saying is that an English man was able to influence Ozzies and RA even though they don’t like him. Not …(more)
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They are POHM 🙂
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Basham failed a concussion test, won’t play for Wales this week against SA. Farrell? Go for it. He should at least sit…(more)
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An argument was made recently that Sexton’s ban was mitigated somewhat when compared to the Hartley/Barnes incident. Thi…(more)
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I’d guess all nations especially Australia are happy for Owen Farrell to play. EJ will know exactly how to get under h…(more)
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Farrell normally swings his left arm around. Again its fine to say he did or didn’t do something but try explain what t…(more)
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Re: Porter/Retallick. You’re right that there wasn’t an uproar exactly. There was, however, quite a bit of c…(more)
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I think you missed that the comment was made in jest?
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But how do you prove a lawyer wrong when he says the player was bent and the law says if the player is bent it is mitiga…(more)
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True that is not how the law is applied but it is not how it is written and lawyers look at the words written when it su…(more)
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Great way to make the sport a joke. Did we do the same when Barrett got off kicking a player in the head on a technical…(more)
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Do we know they submitted a written report that says I looked at clip A and felt this, then I watched Clip B and I felt …(more)
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Because he did nothing against the law. Touching an opposition play is not a penalty. If a player stands and never mov…(more)
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scrum,
Thanks for that. Memo to self, don’t comment on something you haven’t watched closely or really care about! I de…(more)