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AWJ is not a happy bunny

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/201…les?CMP=twt_gu

Pretty fair summary a_a.

No arms pen bla k

He’s huffing and puffing (and has form for this. Oddly, he has been one of ERCs biggest critics and a ringleader with regards to the RCC. The main point which he has not referred to is that the player quotas apply to the top14. Is he going to quit that?

Hard to imagine them getting worse but that’s a big win. Just watching Ulster doing a job on Montpellier

Bristol were away at aberavon. Bizarrely, a 5ft deep hole appeared in the pitch causing the game to be abandoned.

A certain Quade Cooper played for Wallabies, supposedly did quite well. Looks like well see in here in the Autumn. Perhaps I’m tempting fate but he’s the sort of player I like to see on the other side, more errors than “flashy moments of brilliance

I knew that was going to happen but listening on the radio how cock eyed is that useless twunt Robertson, if he isn’t bellowing rubbish he is talking utter bobbins, flat out loathe the cock.

for comparison the irb’s own video of dangerous ruck entry

unsure how this can be considered legal either

a_a, I can’t see what’s specifically not legal in that clip?

I originally thought you were linking to the penalty awarded to N’hampton because an Osprey cleared Hartley out of a ruck from the side. The problem was that Hartley was the first player there after the tackle and flopped over onto his elbows, ie not supporting his weight. As the ref trotted up to the penalty lineout he caught up with Hartley and told him that if he killed the ball that way again he’d penalise him. Wtf? Why not penalise him the first time he did it and NOT penalise the player who tries to sort his poor reffing?

I say it year after year but the reffing standards are getting so poor that I’m finding the game difficult to watch.

Good call Wrecker, all the best to Reesey.

Sad news from Pontypridd. Too young. 🙁

Hmmm, I think the advantages comes down to ‘better than going bankrupt within 6 months’…..

Glad they’re in though, Irish teams to follow within 48hrs i bet

M-D; that was always coming; it will also allow the Welsh to reduce their funding to two regions with money based on who qualifies. Other than the issue of letting the English clubs dictate to the rest of Britain(including the RFU) to ensure they get exactly what they want. I am not too fussed as we will be in and the SRU is wealthy enough to throw enough money at embra to ensure they improve.The italian clubs will be stuffed as will Connacht. 😥 Not really growing the game,is it?
One question,as it is qualification based,does that mean that Sale and Newcastle will no longer get into the Amlin? Second bottom and winning the second division kind of show the whole qualification argument of EPL into focus.

I think the shafting of the Heineken buy the english and French teams is a real backward step. It seems to me it isn’t about the game anymore it is just about money. How ever they paint it the bottom line is more money for them.

I think the shafting of the Heineken buy the english and French teams is a real backward step. It seems to me it isn’t about the game anymore it is just about money. How ever they paint it the bottom line is more money for them.

Last season was the first where I’ve noticed such a massive disparity in finances. The fact that the final was between two clubs who could just buy their way into the tournament by picking up the best players in the world as and when necessary felt depressing to me.

Funnily enough we’ve hit exactly the problem that killing off the traditional Welsh clubs 10 years ago was meant to stop. So not only did the WRU disenfranchise huge numbers of actual rugby spectators, they now seem intent on killing everything below the national side.

FTFY

Why? So the money bags get more and the smaller clubs get less and all you will get is the same 4 or 5 teams winning year after year. Aren’t you bored with that?

Whats Spikey Mikey done now?

Turned up to a video analysis session still pissed from the night before. Not him alone, though.