Rugby

I dont know... Im from Melbourne so i only give a shit about this is we're winning.

So. You're not giving a shit then.

I wont be losing sleep over this.

Have a nice thread... Im OUT.

Thank christ for that.

Good quality game and it's surely meant to be that NZ get some revenge on the frogs..

I certainly hope so - it's been a long time between drinks. Good, tough game that. Immense job by the tight five but you had to feel sorry for Pocock - he was phenomenal but it was like he was playing by himself.

Gutted but the ABs deserved it. They better beat the French now though.

"The lifted player is dropped to the ground from a height with no regard to the player’s safety. A red card should be issued for this type of tackle."

http://www.rugbyrefs.com/content.php?224-Alain-Rolland-and-Sam-Warburton-s-Red-Card

That link is implying that the memo is stating a zero tolerance on tipping, but there is still a matter of judgement as to what constitutes regard for the player's safety.

Far from saying it's a straight red for any tipping, the law accepts that it happens even with regard for the players safety. And the lack of red cards for similar offences throughout the tournament demonstrates that.

The Ref should have reviewed the video, I suspect the immediate French reaction had a lot to do with his quick decision.

regard for the player's safety.

This is the only leeway given to the tackler and dropping the tackled player, as Warburton did, is not and never will be showing regard for the player's safety.

Let it go ffs.

I got the Kiwi bird a box of these this morning.

This is the only leeway given to the tackler and dropping the tackled player, as Warburton did, is not and never will be showing regard for the player's safety.

You're the one being absolutist. I'm accepting of the ambiguity. The fact that it's the only leeway doesn't make it less important.

let it go ffs

get over yourself! Bitch please! etc. If you insist on turning it in to a patronising cheap point scoring contest.

Its easy to feel when you've up-ended someone. They suddenly feel a shed load lighter, as they're upper body pivots down.

Being 5'7" I end up doing this alot. Its fecking difficult to clean up, once its started. But its still a red, if you dont try.

http://vimeo.com/30721646

Wibble, know I'm late to the Alternative Rugby Commentary, but each and every one has me pissing wih laughter...

"Fuck you France!" Laughing as I type..

Good quality game and it's surely meant to be that NZ get some revenge on the frogs..

I really hope the French win, I really do, but doubt they will. I always liked NZ up until the last world cup - I was at university with David Kirk the year after he lifted the inaugural world cup (yeah, name-dropper, I know) - but their histrionics in 2007 showed them up as a bunch of unbelievable whiners and whingers.

They bang on about that forward pass and no one pulls them up on two decisions they got: a) they should have been reduced to 14 men after a stone-cold assault on Serge Betson, inside five minutes, which led to him being subbed (Did he whine? Did he fuck?); b) McAlister's try came after an obvious forward pass, that just happened to come earlier in the move.

I'd love France to do them again, this time in front of their own fans...

I've been thinking something very similar to that all this week, I just can't agree with you that the whining is limited to 2007 I think the same attitude comes from the ABs at every World Cup they play very well in between but then seem to believe that it is their right to win the world cup. I don't think that they choke so much as believe the thing is theirs from the off, then they inevitably whine about it when they loose a game they should have won, case in point the "poisoning" at the WC in South Africa

I'm not a massive AB fan either, but it is a travesty that the worst top flight team in the tournament has managed to get this far.
#whiningsaffa
#donttellmywife

I'm with jaygee on this.

#blametheirish

I edited down a long winded rant...

I've been thinking something very similar to that all this week, I just can't agree with you that the whining is limited to 2007 I think the same attitude comes from the ABs at every World Cup they play very well in between but then seem to believe that it is their right to win the world cup. I don't think that they choke so much as believe the thing is theirs from the off, then they inevitably whine about it when they loose a game they should have won, case in point the "poisoning" at the WC in South Africa

This is such a tired, rehashed and unoriginal critique of the All Blacks. Yaaaawwwwnn.

This is such a tired, rehashed and unoriginal critique of the All Blacks. Yaaaawwwwnn.

I wonder why

#blametheirish

no way blame the Aussies.

loving the observations of 'whining' from the poms. It's a compliment when it comes from the masters.

This is such a tired, rehashed and unoriginal critique of the All Blacks. Yaaaawwwwnn.

No point in claiming to be the best in the world if you cannot deliver the goods when it matters, then bitch about it.

no way blame the Aussies.

loving the observations of 'whining' from the poms. It's a compliment when it comes from the masters.

Mrs Bobbo being an Aussie, I spend a fair bit of time there, and truthfully cannot understand where this tired cliché of whining POM comes from jesus for a country that prides itself for being able to take it on the chin you can't half chew someone else's ear off when your pissed off about something. Kiwis aren't far behind.

Campo is basically a cunt. An arrogant one too.

Why is Campo such a cunt about Cooper? Did Cooper bang Mrs Campo or something?

Campo is basically a cunt. An arrogant one too.

+1 just likes the sound of his own voice..

You'd think players like Cooper would get his backing..