...so much better than football. Ref in charge the whole time. He has the respect of the players, he's keeping them informed all the time. Football has so much to learn. Over to you Sepp ....
I think there are aspects of football and rugby where they could learn from each other. You're spot on about refereeing in rugby though, it's a complete culture change to football.
Nowt changes wi wrong decisions though lol. Big difference not one word or gesture from players when they have got it wrong.
they would get no argument from me either......................I couldn't no idea what's happening half the chuffing time
He was shocking in that first half, some terrible decisions. Playing ball on ground, penalising kicking from own 22 straight into touch. Had a good second half though.
i think the 22 yard one was our old friend the linesman. He did get some decisions wrong but at least he did it both ways had a lot worse refs
TBF Ru must be the hardest game in the world to referee, the sheer number of offences that can be committed in virtually any situation make it very difficult, he made a few poor ones today, but overall the standard is incredibly high, particularly when the RU changes the rules every year, when I played we'd just about got used to the changes by the end of the season. The ones I get annoyed about now..a couple of which happened to day, is the rule concerning the tackler rolling away, sometimes it's tricky with 20 or 30 stone of blokes laid on you, in the old days you'd just be shoed out (or rucking as it was called then), which was always an encouragement to move asap...but now they penalise the ruckers...ludicrous. The other one is the ridiculous position they've adopted whereby the moment a scrum collapses they penalise someone, they really don't know who to penalise as almost all referees have been backs in their playing career, and the only people who understand the dark arts of scrummaging are front row forwards, none of whom ever go on to referee. Wales were penalised tonight for collapsing, but I don't believe they collapsed deliberately, in which case a penalty is correct due to the dangerous nature of collapse,but they collapsed because they physically couldn't withstand the pressure put on them by the England pack, players lose binding and footing because the pressure is to much to bear, but not deliberately and shouldn't be penalised.
