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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (C A Iversen @ Dec 2 2009, 11:45 PM)
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Steve-o the whole rugby world is not going WTF over this. You are South African, it's called reading your own news. I googled 100's of news articles on it. Many cries of "foul", all bar one I could find was from Dublin, Pretoria or another part of either country. The French press are fine with it, New Zealand (obviously), most English, nearly all Australian news. Didn't see much welsh stuff. Hardly the whole world. Just because you said so.[/b]
Can I ask for the links of these please?
I know what is said now is academic because the award is sitting pretty in McCaw's bar but I found on multiple rugby sites and forums (especially) most people were caught by surprise.
So I just wanna see the other side of the rugby opinion.
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I think there's so many people blinded by their own country that they don't realise that an expert panel picked the man. Not a bunch of whinging TRF'ers. It's been a disgrace the way some people have reacted to this.[/b]
But in the same breathe NZ'ers rubbish the decision of this "expert panel" because Shane Williams won it last year? Both you and NickDNZ have conveyed this which I think is very hypocritical.
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But in the same breath? But in the same breath? But in the same breath NZ'ers rubbish the decision of this expert panel? Where? Particularly, in the same breath as this year. I'm open to debate on this. Pull up old posts of NZ'ers going off about last year. Please. Go ahead. Let alone, in the same breath.
Satisfy the masses.....do it. Find those posts. If you find one, just one, does that equate to this year. Really?
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That's pretty random to be honest. Was McCaw the best player of this year? Not a chance. O'Driscoll, Du Preez and Brussow are ahead of him at least.[/b]
Apparently not because McCaw won. Did McCaw cheat?
Either way he deserved it last year so he got it this year. And the pannel of judges couldn't have made a mistake...
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And why you getting your knickers in such a twist over me voicing my opinion anyway? FFS man chill out, you're over doing it.
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I was just utterly fed up about it and was pretty tired and posting it when I got up in the middle of the night, so yeah I did get a bit carried away.
Still, regarding your quotes. We never rubbished the decision made last year, just said we thought McCaw should've won last year. Just a personal opinion, not rubbishing the judges and going on like it was a terrible shame or anything. Also, Nickdnz was obviously being pedantic there, so the whole debate falls down on your side if thats the best there is.
The point of the issue was that for the week after Shane Williams won, there was not this crying about it. Some off the cuff one-off quip from Nickdnz is hardly a rubbishing.
I look forward to next years awards.
