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2024 Guinness Six Nations
Ireland v France
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<blockquote data-quote="Charles" data-source="post: 243854"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Logorrhea @ Feb 8 2009, 08:36 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=377034" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p></p><p>What a load of dross...You probably forgot to take you green glasses off. The penalty count is 12 to 2 for France, with the 2 pens agains Ireland in the last five minutes, when Ireland were never gonna loose.Teh last time we saw a team infringing twice in a game is a certain quarter final where the referee wasn't really impartial. How is it that french killing the ball is called cynical yet when Ireland players do it it's called "street-wise" ? f***in' double standards...</p><p>If you watched carefully you probably also saw the Irish players on the wrong side of the ruck, laying hands on the ball all day long, without even advantage given by the clown with the whistle... He gave plenty of warnings for sure ( rool away green etc) but when France were on defense he went directly to the whistle...</p><p></p><p>Ex: at the 8 minute, Dusautoir gets tackled by Heaslip and O'Gara, goes to groud, O'gara falls the wrong way killing the ball and Owen goes " Hands away blue" and gives the scrum to Ireland ...Wtf ? :angry: </p><p>Can you point exactly when France tried to steal the ball in the ruck please ? I' very curious.</p><p>If you ask me France played very well the referee, which is to say we would have got binned for sure if we did but a fraction of what the Irish did.</p><p></p><p>The truth is France and Italy don't play with the same set of rules than the home nations...I'm not saying the ref cost us the match ( we lack composure ans tactics at crucial times and our defense was suspect) but it would be nice to have a fair ref sometimes. ( of course it's totally happenstance that we gor Rolland to referee us against Italy, a game we would surely win evn with a baised ref)</p><p></p><p>Yes that is sour grapes and if you don't agree well **** off.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charles, post: 243854"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Logorrhea @ Feb 8 2009, 08:36 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=377034']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> What a load of dross...You probably forgot to take you green glasses off. The penalty count is 12 to 2 for France, with the 2 pens agains Ireland in the last five minutes, when Ireland were never gonna loose.Teh last time we saw a team infringing twice in a game is a certain quarter final where the referee wasn't really impartial. How is it that french killing the ball is called cynical yet when Ireland players do it it's called "street-wise" ? f***in' double standards... If you watched carefully you probably also saw the Irish players on the wrong side of the ruck, laying hands on the ball all day long, without even advantage given by the clown with the whistle... He gave plenty of warnings for sure ( rool away green etc) but when France were on defense he went directly to the whistle... Ex: at the 8 minute, Dusautoir gets tackled by Heaslip and O'Gara, goes to groud, O'gara falls the wrong way killing the ball and Owen goes " Hands away blue" and gives the scrum to Ireland ...Wtf ? :angry: Can you point exactly when France tried to steal the ball in the ruck please ? I' very curious. If you ask me France played very well the referee, which is to say we would have got binned for sure if we did but a fraction of what the Irish did. The truth is France and Italy don't play with the same set of rules than the home nations...I'm not saying the ref cost us the match ( we lack composure ans tactics at crucial times and our defense was suspect) but it would be nice to have a fair ref sometimes. ( of course it's totally happenstance that we gor Rolland to referee us against Italy, a game we would surely win evn with a baised ref) Yes that is sour grapes and if you don't agree well **** off. [/QUOTE]
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