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<blockquote data-quote="Gavin" data-source="post: 286539"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (dullonien @ Nov 9 2009, 06:25 AM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=420069" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>What are you on about. Don't blaim an entire nation because the ref and touch judges didn't pick up on an obvious piece of foul play. The reason he's been cited, is because it went un=punished during the match. If a penalty, or yellow card was handed out, he wouldn't now be getting cited. I've seen tackles like that handed out yellows before, as he came in with a swinging arm. But I don't think it was delibriate, just a slightly miss-positioned last ditch tackle.</p><p></p><p>As I said in the Wales v NZ thread. I don't think it deserves a ban atall. Would be unfair on NZ and Carter.</p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Well it was the guys in the stadium who decided to constantly it, and I am guessing they are Welsh, then the.... say 60,000 Welsh supports booing him for the rest of the match. Also I was pretty disgusted when the Welsh supported started to sing and jeer during the Haka - learn some respect, (this isn't centered around Wales, but the whole rugby world) take a leaf out of Munster's book. No cheering or anything during the Haka. You wouldn't jeer during a teams national anthem, so then why a rugby tradition going back decades?</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Gavin, post: 286539"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (dullonien @ Nov 9 2009, 06:25 AM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=420069']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> What are you on about. Don't blaim an entire nation because the ref and touch judges didn't pick up on an obvious piece of foul play. The reason he's been cited, is because it went un=punished during the match. If a penalty, or yellow card was handed out, he wouldn't now be getting cited. I've seen tackles like that handed out yellows before, as he came in with a swinging arm. But I don't think it was delibriate, just a slightly miss-positioned last ditch tackle. As I said in the Wales v NZ thread. I don't think it deserves a ban atall. Would be unfair on NZ and Carter. [/b][/quote] Well it was the guys in the stadium who decided to constantly it, and I am guessing they are Welsh, then the.... say 60,000 Welsh supports booing him for the rest of the match. Also I was pretty disgusted when the Welsh supported started to sing and jeer during the Haka - learn some respect, (this isn't centered around Wales, but the whole rugby world) take a leaf out of Munster's book. No cheering or anything during the Haka. You wouldn't jeer during a teams national anthem, so then why a rugby tradition going back decades? [/QUOTE]
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