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<blockquote data-quote="Mrs. Peter Quinn" data-source="post: 1051079" data-attributes="member: 12190"><p>I don't agree with the idea that it's all the same as last week. Let's remember the reason for this was there being a south African TMO, and I think it's totally fair that Gatland wants to have had a say on this. There is after all a reason why officials of same nationality don't officiate their national team. I say that as someone who overall dislikes the mind games which Gatland, Jones etc spew out. I think his comments were pretty fair, even if he knew that he was achieving extra with it.</p><p></p><p>And let's be clear by the way, it should be expected that a professional official who hears what Gatland said can think yeah that's fine, doesn't bother me as I back myself to make the right unbiased decisions. If he bottles it on this sort of level of quite basic initial mindgames, then that is ultimately on him, no? </p><p></p><p>So that brings it back to whether he 'bottled it' and went against his gut decision, or just made a poor decision ( in the Watson incident). It really could be either when you consider his record, including the recent Faff incident which didn't get the requisite sanction either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mrs. Peter Quinn, post: 1051079, member: 12190"] I don't agree with the idea that it's all the same as last week. Let's remember the reason for this was there being a south African TMO, and I think it's totally fair that Gatland wants to have had a say on this. There is after all a reason why officials of same nationality don't officiate their national team. I say that as someone who overall dislikes the mind games which Gatland, Jones etc spew out. I think his comments were pretty fair, even if he knew that he was achieving extra with it. And let's be clear by the way, it should be expected that a professional official who hears what Gatland said can think yeah that's fine, doesn't bother me as I back myself to make the right unbiased decisions. If he bottles it on this sort of level of quite basic initial mindgames, then that is ultimately on him, no? So that brings it back to whether he 'bottled it' and went against his gut decision, or just made a poor decision ( in the Watson incident). It really could be either when you consider his record, including the recent Faff incident which didn't get the requisite sanction either. [/QUOTE]
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