Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

ENG v NZ, 08.11.2014, 1430, @THOR™

124»

Comments

  • #152
    Swiwi.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,415 ✭✭✭Swiwi.


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    At home, in front of a partisan crowd (of my countrymen) and they couldn't manage it. None of my bets came in but what do I care especially since the King scored again!!! As I settled in to the game down at my local, the owner told me that the All Blacks were an ageing team and that Richie McCaw and Dan Carter were past it.

    While it was far from a vintage performance by the ABs, the day these guys finally click I wouldn't care to be on the receiving end. I did warn before the game of the consequences of trying to drown the Haka. :D

    You're a bigger supporter of NZ than me LOL but it is foolish to ever write off England.


  • #153
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    Swiwi. wrote: »
    You're a bigger supporter of NZ than me LOL but it is foolish to ever write off England.

    Are you my local publican? That's what he said too. I write them off here and now. :D


  • #154
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    Highlights below.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm4iVU-6VdA


    Highpoint of game Richie McCaw's try at 6.30. :D


  • #155
    Klunk_NZ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 370 ✭✭Klunk_NZ


    Nigel Owens kept the scores close in that 2nd half..... he was painful.


  • #156
    hahashake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 831 ✭✭✭hahashake


    Curious as to what neutrals think of the Whitelock non-try. Personally I think it was a try.


  • Advertisement
  • #157
    Klunk_NZ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 370 ✭✭Klunk_NZ


    I had try, if the play was onside. I still don't understand how a ref can award a try and go to the TMO when the kicker is lining up the conversion. I don't condone kicking, but it was reckless as opposed to malicious and the TMO even said just a penaly on Coles. And what about England blatantly preventing the match sealing try on their line with an offside play and not even receiving a card?


  • #158
    English Lurker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 609 ✭✭✭English Lurker


    Cba arguing on matters of opinion but it was the TMO who requested the double-checking of that try, not Owens.


  • #159
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 42,171 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    i personally have no problem at all with a ref that has a different viewpoint on an action than a TMO, when the ref can see exactly what the TMO can


  • #160
    Swiwi.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,415 ✭✭✭Swiwi.


    hahashake wrote: »
    Curious as to what neutrals think of the Whitelock non-try. Personally I think it was a try.

    I'm not neutral of course but 50/50 for me. Not sure Cruden scored though either. I actually thought the English scrumhalf put downward pressure on the ball behind the line before whitelock knocked on so I thought could have been 5m scrum to NZ.

    I think Hansen does have a point about the tv director drawing incidents to the refs attention - it's not in the remit and I can't possibly see how the the TV director can be neutral: easy to select what to draw attention to.


  • #161
    hahashake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 831 ✭✭✭hahashake


    Swiwi. wrote: »
    I'm not neutral of course but 50/50 for me. Not sure Cruden scored though either. I actually thought the English scrumhalf put downward pressure on the ball behind the line before whitelock knocked on so I thought could have been 5m scrum to NZ.

    I think Hansen does have a point about the tv director drawing incidents to the refs attention - it's not in the remit and I can't possibly see how the the TV director can be neutral: easy to select what to draw attention to.

    Crudeness definitely scored but it did look a bit dubious in real time.
    https://33.media.tumblr.com/19181b6a79aa39b60bf278fad04ee411/tumblr_neqs1uIdAA1sg3nzko1_1280.png

    You are probably right that it should have a 5m scrum to the ABs but I fail to see how it was a knock on. It only needs a millisecond of hand touching ball on over or the line to be a try, what happens after that is immaterial


  • Advertisement
  • #162
    Swiwi.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,415 ✭✭✭Swiwi.


    hahashake wrote: »
    Crudeness definitely scored but it did look a bit dubious in real time.
    https://33.media.tumblr.com/19181b6a79aa39b60bf278fad04ee411/tumblr_neqs1uIdAA1sg3nzko1_1280.png

    You are probably right that it should have a 5m scrum to the ABs but I fail to see how it was a knock on. It only needs a millisecond of hand touching ball on over or the line to be a try, what happens after that is immaterial

    Ok that gif is definitive, tx. Yeah it could well have been a try but I see why knock on given. Would have been real egg on faces stuff for England if he had scored.

    So lads for Scotland: hope Carter Piutau Fekitoa Vito and Romano all get a run.


  • #163
    hahashake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 831 ✭✭✭hahashake


    Swiwi. wrote: »
    Ok that gif is definitive, tx. Yeah it could well have been a try but I see why knock on given. Would have been real egg on faces stuff for England if he had scored.

    So lads for Scotland: hope Carter Piutau Fekitoa Vito and Romano all get a run.

    DC will start and will give the youngsters a lesson in kicking goals. Both were shockingly bad from the tee v England, inexcusable at this level.


Advertisement