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Tri Nations 2009-2011
Tri Nations: Wallabies - All Blacks @ Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane (27-8-2011, 10:05GMT)
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<blockquote data-quote="Shaggy" data-source="post: 439871" data-attributes="member: 43400"><p>That's very true when you think about it ... William Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it, which was against the rules of the game he was playing at the time, so it was therefore, cheating.</p><p></p><p>as mentioned by yourself and other, technical cheating, if you want to call it that, can be very hard to detect, and can be a marginal call anyway ... the window for a Brussow/McCaw/Pocock type turnover from a tackle situation can be very small, just as the timing of an attempted intercept can result in a player being offside sometimes, or a flat pass can go forward, or a player can find themselves offside from a chased kick or in a rushing defense ... should players stop attempting these things because they might, on occasion, be breaking the laws of the game? ... of course not</p><p></p><p>Are the officials going to get it right all of the time - no way, many rulings are subject to opinion as to whether a ruling is correct or not, and if you ask other officials, you are likely to get different answers as to what the correct ruling is.</p><p></p><p>The old adage of "play to the whistle" is what the best players do, and they will test out the officials to see how far they can go ... it's called playing to the referees interpretations</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shaggy, post: 439871, member: 43400"] That's very true when you think about it ... William Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it, which was against the rules of the game he was playing at the time, so it was therefore, cheating. as mentioned by yourself and other, technical cheating, if you want to call it that, can be very hard to detect, and can be a marginal call anyway ... the window for a Brussow/McCaw/Pocock type turnover from a tackle situation can be very small, just as the timing of an attempted intercept can result in a player being offside sometimes, or a flat pass can go forward, or a player can find themselves offside from a chased kick or in a rushing defense ... should players stop attempting these things because they might, on occasion, be breaking the laws of the game? ... of course not Are the officials going to get it right all of the time - no way, many rulings are subject to opinion as to whether a ruling is correct or not, and if you ask other officials, you are likely to get different answers as to what the correct ruling is. The old adage of "play to the whistle" is what the best players do, and they will test out the officials to see how far they can go ... it's called playing to the referees interpretations [/QUOTE]
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