Your post is more full of holes than a 10Kg block of Emmental. I hardly know where to start!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbOA8ff4FQ4 during his involvement with ELVs another joke from irb
mainly from southern hemisphere coaches and with
full backing from mr obrien himself.
FFS get your facts straight!!
Firstly, the Laws project Group, authors and conceivers of the ELVs, set up by the IRB’s Rugby Committee in 2005 were
Bill Beaumont (England, NH, Chairman) - also Vice Chairman of the iRB
Bill Nolan (Scotland, NH)
Rod Macqueen (Australia, SH)
Ian McIntosh (South Africa, SH)
Richie Dixon (Scotland, NH)
Pierre Villepreux (France, NH)
Graham Mourie (New Zealand, SH)
Paddy O'Brien (New Zealand, SH)
NOTE:
Four NH and
four SH representatives, with the NH both Chairing the Group and having the casting vote.
Secondly, the ELV's had the full backing of O'Brien because;
a. He was the SPOKESMAN for the Laws Project Group
b. The ELV's were iRB policy!
What the fvck would you expect an iRB spokesman to do, speak out against the policy of his employers? FFS man take some time to think about what it is you are posting before you make a complete dick of yourself on a public forum.
paddy here talks about laws, and his argument is at odds with what he tells refs via his directives. first off he tells us the game is too difficult to referee and needs to be made easier, yet why not train refs better? he also says touch judges should be more involved in game, yet during 07 RWC issued a directive to ignore slight offsides and forward passes, and when a noted coach brings this up he calls coach a liar publicly. then has to offer public apology.
The iRB meeting between referees and coaches and the subsequent memo was about Touch Judges becoming involved in the game with
marginal calls that were
beyond their mandate, and
outside the touch judging protocols in place at the time!!!!
In the video he is talking about the ELV's. This was AFTER 2007. You are comparing apples with oranges.
he tells coaches off for slating refs , and hands out punishment to a ref because coaches complained about ref ?
He sidelined Dickinson because he had a terrible game. Lyndon Bray, the SANZAR Referees Manager did exactly the same to Paul Marks, Matt Goddard, James Leckie, Garrett Williamson and Pro Legoete in the Super 14..
And for the record, the All Black management did NOT make any formal complaint about Dickinson's performance at San Siro.
He has shown a bias in his outbursts for which he has had to apologise, if it was not wrong he would not have to apologise would he.
You are so naive! You must live in a world everything is in black and white, with no shades of grey.
Firstly, just because he had something to say, does not mean he is biased. In 2007, O'Brien was very critical of the All Blacks management over their criticism of Wayne Barnes. Where's the pro NZ bias there then? Also, he called Peter Thorburn a liar over the touch judge memo. While not exactly lying, Thorburn did grossly misrepresent what was in that memo. OBrien's stand was for the iRB, against a NZ coach. Where is the pro NZ bias there?
Secondly, an apology does not mean that what he said is incorrect, but he may have been wrong to say it. Elementary School English Compreshenson mate!! If a 5ft 2in person weighs 250lb and has a fat arse, I might call them a short fat-arsed person. I would be "wrong" to say that (and later apologise for it) but I would still be technically correct in what I said.
The game is harder to ref last few years due to refs not heeding the laws, and being given directives by paddy to concentrate on certain areas rather than the whole laws. who is at top of refs for last 5 years ? whatever you say regarding laws , these last 5 years has been a mess, with the tackle area and scrum area a major problem. The scrum has never been such an issue to ref, only since NZ and Australia decided they didnt want scrums. things are changing back at last , but still scrum is not reffed correctly , why not who is in charge ? yep keeps coming back to him don`t it.
And since NZ has probably had one of the best scrums in the world for the last five tp ten years, exactly why do you think they want scrums removed or de-powered.
The game became a mess between 2001 and 2005 when the Home Unions wanted to slow the game down, presumably because they couldn't cope with the speed it was played in the SH. You only have to look at footage from the first years of the Super 12 (1996 to 2000) to see what a fantastic and exhilarating game we had. Then the NH dominated iRB changed the tackle Law and the whole breakdown area became a mess.
The game is hard to referee because of the complexity of the Laws. Its the price we pay for having a contest for possession at the breakdown. If you want to watch simple game with simple Laws go watch Rugby Lite and Wendyball.