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The Rugby Championship 2023
22 October 2016 v Australia, Eden Park, Auckland
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<blockquote data-quote="RoosTah" data-source="post: 820809" data-attributes="member: 12207"><p>In truth few sides can keep with the ABs for the full 80 these days and the quality of Rugby in Australia has been on a steady decline for a long time now. Half the people I know who used to follow the Tahs religiously back in the mid 00s would rather watch the f##king Swans for some reason now and the game is now on the cusp of completely breaking internally with a Super League esque breakaway domestic competition (except this will be super league in reverse - grass roots with no money wanting to ruin themselves further by going to war with the NRC).</p><p></p><p><span style="color: silver"><span style="font-size: 9px">- - - Updated - - -</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Agree 100%.</p><p></p><p>The NRL have worked out this year finally that having more tech just ****** people off and they're looking it implementing a system of "captain's challenges" instead. They've played a couple games with it already and it is SOOO much better to watch. Basically the idea is the ref's onfield call stand unless the captain challenges it, but the kicker is the captain only gets 2 "lives" - if his challenge is upheld and its wrong, then he keeps both his challenges, but if the ref was right he loses one. </p><p></p><p>The point being that much more onfield stuff just stands and the teams have to be tactical and careful when they want to send things upstairs. The upshot is you're a lot less ****** at the ref because it ultimately comes down to the judgement of the captain as to whether they want to challenge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoosTah, post: 820809, member: 12207"] In truth few sides can keep with the ABs for the full 80 these days and the quality of Rugby in Australia has been on a steady decline for a long time now. Half the people I know who used to follow the Tahs religiously back in the mid 00s would rather watch the f##king Swans for some reason now and the game is now on the cusp of completely breaking internally with a Super League esque breakaway domestic competition (except this will be super league in reverse - grass roots with no money wanting to ruin themselves further by going to war with the NRC). [COLOR="silver"][SIZE=1]- - - Updated - - -[/SIZE][/COLOR] Agree 100%. The NRL have worked out this year finally that having more tech just ****** people off and they're looking it implementing a system of "captain's challenges" instead. They've played a couple games with it already and it is SOOO much better to watch. Basically the idea is the ref's onfield call stand unless the captain challenges it, but the kicker is the captain only gets 2 "lives" - if his challenge is upheld and its wrong, then he keeps both his challenges, but if the ref was right he loses one. The point being that much more onfield stuff just stands and the teams have to be tactical and careful when they want to send things upstairs. The upshot is you're a lot less ****** at the ref because it ultimately comes down to the judgement of the captain as to whether they want to challenge. [/QUOTE]
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