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Rugby World Cup 2015
[2015 RWC] Pool A: England vs. Fiji (18/09/2015)
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<blockquote data-quote="The Jones Boy" data-source="post: 747711" data-attributes="member: 70721"><p>Well i can see in this thread some of you Poms are defending anything and everything as hard as you can.</p><p>So have it your way boys, but as a neutral on this one, the yellow card on Fiji was a Harsh call and history will tell us that by upgrading the try to a penalty try, with it's guaranteed two points to follow AND then adding an unnecessary and heavy handed Yellow card on top of it, when the referee could have chosen to 'have a word' instead (which is covered in the rules), meant that the Fijians fell behind, and then went a man down, and then shipped 12 points and that was the contest over in the first quarter because of a poor piece of refereeing.</p><p>A very dull game ensued and then when the Fijians got tired in the last 20 the samoan boys came on and stepped it up a gear and made the pace more exciting.</p><p>You go ahead and defend the decision as much as you like if you're that insecure about your teams performance, but the truth is the ref stuffed the game as a contest very early on.</p><p>Fiji didn't help themselves by not being able to kick their own backside but I wonder if part of that was because for a while they looked like they were shell shocked and weary from the whistle stoppages.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Jones Boy, post: 747711, member: 70721"] Well i can see in this thread some of you Poms are defending anything and everything as hard as you can. So have it your way boys, but as a neutral on this one, the yellow card on Fiji was a Harsh call and history will tell us that by upgrading the try to a penalty try, with it's guaranteed two points to follow AND then adding an unnecessary and heavy handed Yellow card on top of it, when the referee could have chosen to 'have a word' instead (which is covered in the rules), meant that the Fijians fell behind, and then went a man down, and then shipped 12 points and that was the contest over in the first quarter because of a poor piece of refereeing. A very dull game ensued and then when the Fijians got tired in the last 20 the samoan boys came on and stepped it up a gear and made the pace more exciting. You go ahead and defend the decision as much as you like if you're that insecure about your teams performance, but the truth is the ref stuffed the game as a contest very early on. Fiji didn't help themselves by not being able to kick their own backside but I wonder if part of that was because for a while they looked like they were shell shocked and weary from the whistle stoppages. [/QUOTE]
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