Dumbest thing players get penalised for?

[TRF Mr Fish]

What frustrates you must that players do?

For me, it's grabbing the line out jumper before he returns to ground. I see it so often, it's such a dumb to do and it keeps happening.

 

[ratsapprentice]

Not necessarily penalised for - but when the guy in possession of the ball or the scrum half at the back of the maul doesn't get the ball away when they are clearly about to lose the maul.
You can often see it 4-5 seconds before it happens... it ****** me off every single time.

 

[Patchey]

Hands it the ruck always annoys me, but then I'm a 6 so that probably just me thinking I could do better!

I guess when I see my team get pinged for holding on while most of the pack are, instead of hitting the ruck, lining up out wide Tom Croft style, that really annoys me.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

When a scrum half doesn't use a ball after being told to use it and when the ball is easily available. So stupid, I think Italy did it in the most recent. Next would be blatantly joining the ruck wrong. I can understand honest mistakes but when you are joining a ruck from the exact opposite side to the side you are supposed to join from, it's just so stupid. I hate how a lot of players get away with this too (Ireland like to have "lazy players" standing on the wrong side of the ruck to prevent the other team competing and rarely get penalised for it.)

 

[Thingimubob]

When a scrum half doesn't use a ball after being told to use it and when the ball is easily available. So stupid, I think Italy did it in the most recent. Next would be blatantly joining the ruck wrong. I can understand honest mistakes but when you are joining a ruck from the exact opposite side to the side you are supposed to join from, it's just so stupid. I hate how a lot of players get away with this too (Ireland like to have "lazy players" standing on the wrong side of the ruck to prevent the other team competing and rarely get penalised for it.)

Kahn Fotuali'i was guilty of it a fair few times when the law first came in! So god damn frustrating watching the Ospreys and he just wouldn't kick or pass it with the ref shouting use it up to 5 or so times to it...

 

[Big Ewis]

coming in at the side of a ruck, subsequent offside call. Just, please, flanker, just...make SURE whatever happens, you ruck frontally, just....just, frontally. That is all.
And those guys who reach with their foot for the ball in the ruck off the scrumhalf's hands. Almost always results in infringement.

 

[iINDOMINUSxx]

the handling in the rucks are annoying thats how scotland lose to france last year

 

[Feicarsinn]

Giving Sir lip. Jesus, there's nothing more irritating than someone on your team costing you yards by just being a massive ****.

 

[lynam1104]

Mine is a more general one, when players don't listen to the ref, the scrum half use it is a good one, the other would be when a ref says hands off and a player doesn't let go.

 

[Peat]

The best one I ever saw was Ryan Caldwell. Was hanging out of the lineout sort of like a second scrum-half. Ref asks whether he's In the lineout or Out, then asks him to move, then gets fed up with the lack of reply and pings him.

Genius.

 

[Feicarsinn]

The best one I ever saw was Ryan Caldwell. Was hanging out of the lineout sort of like a second scrum-half. Ref asks whether he's In the lineout or Out, then asks him to move, then gets fed up with the lack of reply and pings him.

Genius.

Ah now. You could use Ryan Caldwell as an example of pretty much any offense.

Did he and Tuohy ever play together? That would have been interesting.

 

[Peat]

Ah now. You could use Ryan Caldwell as an example of pretty much any offense.

Did he and Tuohy ever play together? That would have been interesting.

I missed the full gamut of Caldwell stupidity really. By the time I became an Ulster fan, coaches had ran out of patience with him - think he overlapped with Tuohy but rarely played with him.

Seen some pretty dumb ones from Jim Hamilton as well, another master of the gormless lock stare.

 

[Feicarsinn]

I missed the full gamut of Caldwell stupidity really. By the time I became an Ulster fan, coaches had ran out of patience with him - think he overlapped with Tuohy but rarely played with him.

Seen some pretty dumb ones from Jim Hamilton as well, another master of the gormless lock stare.

Apparently they played together for about a season, in arguably the most dodgy second row setup of all time (Ed O'Donohue making up the third member of the regular 22.)

 

[Peat]

Apparently they played together for about a season, in arguably the most dodgy second row setup of all time (Ed O'Donohue making up the third member of the regular 22.)

Genuinely don't recall them getting too many games together. Believe EOD played more with Tuohy and Caldwell rotating, and then Muller came and it was Muller and Tuohy.

And I wouldn't agree with that being a particularly dodgy second row in any sense of the word.

 

[Feicarsinn]

They're all nuts.

 

[dasNdanger]

Honestly, for me it's the spear tackle/drop. Can't remember which match it was that I watched so far this week (may have been one from last weekend even), but the player picked up a guy without the ball (he had passed it), and practically drove him into the ground. Even the announcers said how stupid it was in light of the recent events in rugby league. And while I do understand that sometimes momentum can be part of the problem (especially with legs flying up in the air), there's no call to just drop a player when you obviously know he's in a bad body position in relation to the ground. And it's especially dumb because it draws a big penalty, and is usually quite noticeable (by the fans, players, and officials) - it's not something that a player is likely to get away with on the sly. So why risk it? Why get sent off for 10 - or worse, the entire game - just because you feel like disregarding major safety issues?

It's just dumb, dumb, dumb.


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[TheSaffycen]

When the ball is clearly knocked on by your player but someone on your team plays the ball and then you're offside. There is nothing more irritating when I see a prop pick the ball up after this has happened, instead of a scrum nows its a penalty.

 

[tenpm]

It's not a penalty, but I get annoyed by players who take quick throw-ins with one feet in the field. Not all officials enforce that rule, but why take the chance of turning the ball over? Especially bad are players who get called for incorrect throw-in in one game and do it again in their next.

 

[Big Ewis]

Honestly, for me it's the spear tackle/drop. Can't remember which match it was that I watched so far this week (may have been one from last weekend even), but the player picked up a guy without the ball (he had passed it), and practically drove him into the ground. Even the announcers said how stupid it was in light of the recent events in rugby league. And while I do understand that sometimes momentum can be part of the problem (especially with legs flying up in the air), there's no call to just drop a player when you obviously know he's in a bad body position in relation to the ground. And it's especially dumb because it draws a big penalty, and is usually quite noticeable (by the fans, players, and officials) - it's not something that a player is likely to get away with on the sly. So why risk it? Why get sent off for 10 - or worse, the entire game - just because you feel like disregarding major safety issues?

It's just dumb, dumb, dumb.

BECAUSE !!.....it's a manly thing, you wouldn't understand...throwing someone down like that...definitely worth adding another shiitty little card to your resumé. Every real manly matchoman in his manly ways needs at least one red in his career. "You ain't played Rugby if you ain't got a red" - Jonny Wilkinson.

 

[tenpm]

BECAUSE !!.....it's a manly thing, you wouldn't understand...throwing someone down like that...definitely worth adding another shiitty little card to your resumé. Every real manly matchoman in his manly ways needs at least one red in his career. "You ain't played Rugby if you ain't got a red" - Jonny Wilkinson.

...said the player who's never even received a yellow?