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MikeM
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Doh!
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Through Thick And Thin!
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Wil Chips
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A couple of our centres didn't forgive his as easily at a social event they were all at the following weekend. |
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omri jones
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One of the problems with most refs is that they have an emotional bias to teams or countries. For instance having an Irish ref refereeing an Irish side is asking for trouble. Unfortunately Welsh refs don't seem to "return the favour" to our teams thinking that to prove their impartiality they've got to be strict on Welsh sides.
Nigel Davies may be the best ref in the world if you want to watch attractive rugby but he's never done us any favours, always seeming to favour the opposition.Possibly this is because he lives in the region and is afraid of being accused of bias. It's a very difficult position when you have to make instant decisions (or slow down the game by continually calling in the video ref) and the breakdown for instance is such a mess that quite often decisions could go either way. With two finely balanced teams opposing each other the ref often decides who wins and without neutral refs it's often going to be difficult getting a result. I even think that English refs would give us a fairer crack of the whip in the Rabo.
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Why
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It's quite simple really apart from derbies ref and officials should not be from either sides countries
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She asks why i still can't answer. I guess its in the blood.
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aber-fan
Veteran Joined: 25 October 2004 Location: Wales Status: Offline Points: 18857 |
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I think Nigel Owens was very badly served by his assistants in that match - as far as I remember, Rob Evans was wrongly sent to the bin for tipping up a Munster jumper at a lineout, when in fact the player was dropped onto Rob's back by his lifters. This is what cost us the game, as we hat to play a man short (soon to be 2 short) and also field position. The Evans yellow card came as a result of a recommendation by the asistant ref, I think - didn't it? And if it didn't - he should have told NO he'd got it wrong! |
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aber-fan
Veteran Joined: 25 October 2004 Location: Wales Status: Offline Points: 18857 |
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Nigel Owens! He's an excellent ref, but for whatever reason, we have had the rough end of several decisions off him in recent seasons - though often these were on the recommendation of his assistants. We deserve some luck with NO decisions in future! |
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“You cannot reason a man out of what he never reasoned himself into.” (Jonathan Swift)
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ScarletSpiderman
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In theory that is a great idea. However, arguments sake we get to the playoff (or even the final) and are drawn away against one of the big Irish sides, would you really want to have a Scottish or Italian ref? Surely a top WRU/IRFU ref, even allowing for a bias, is a far better option. After all that is why we ditched the neutral ref thing, we were getting tired of Chanleng Bros ruining any chances we had of beating the Irish.
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scarletman
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There are also an imbalance of the number of Referees supplied by each country in the Rabo ... Welsh / Irish outnumber the Scots/Italian refs. |
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omri jones
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Sorry Nigel Owens. But you knew who I meant without even getting his name right - must be an obvious aspect of his refereeing!
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