While it was a good week in League the results were marred yet again by some dodgy refereeing decisions that cost at least south's one win. But of course they weren't the only ones as this week the Roosters were on the back of some very bad forward pass decisions, one which wasn't to deny them a try and one which was that allowed the Bulldogs to score.
How is it that these days there are more Ref's and assistants than every before and yet the decisions seem to get worse. Back in the old days it was one referee and two touch judges. Sure they didn't know what they were doing but no one could go back to a slow mo replay and prove that they were wrong.
These days its not enough that the refs are making bad calls they seem to be out to do everything in their power to ensure a close game where the home team is the eventual winner.
And don't think it doesn't influence the result. What about the State of Origin, the last few years has seen every questionable decision was given to Queensland on top of the fact that they had an impressive array of talented footballers (who mostly came from NSW). But in the third game of the series the refs were giving clear instructions to do everything in their power to support NSW as a series of embarrassing penalties were blown for holding onto the tackle player when the NSW player clearly had hold of their opponents jumpers.
The other games were just as bad. I'm betting Manly was shafted again but you tend not to remember those bad decisions when you play the sharks these days as you generally win by 30.
One team lucky to win despite the dodgy decisions was the Roosters. Two very bad forward pass decisions cost them 12 points and nearly the game. IN the end a series of dropped balls by the Bulldogs let the Roosters back in the game meaning that the commentators could go on and on about the "Gutsy" performance and of course the "Courageous" leadership of Braith Anaster..... oh please.
Phil Gould spoke at length on TV and in the paper how Braith Anaster had come of age as a player leading his player to victory through adversity. What ??Would this be the Braith Anaster that starting mouthing off at the decisions costing his team a penalty for dissent.
Braith the only time the world will beat path to your door is when your in the bathroom.
It was Phil of course who recommended Braith to the Roosters all those many years ago and has been waiting for him to do something every since. Phil talked about how gifted he is and how he was born under a lucky sign. 'Well if thats the case I'm betting that it was 2 hours free parking.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Gaz is back - but do we also have to take Sonny Bill
Well the Terrograph says it all on page 1. "Stop the boats" we don't want the undesirables entering the country, and underneath is a photo of Mark Gaznier. This pretty much sums up my mood about the rugby casts offs as well. Basically since the big money of international rugby dried up when the TV ratings did we have been forced to repatriate Rugby refugees are looking to return in the prospect of an vastly increased salary cap.
Forget the refugee's escaping from a war zone what about the English super league migrants escaping Euorzone tax havens. After a year of sunning himself on French Riviera the Gaz is back trying to impress the selectors, but with match stats of no line breaks, seven tackles and one missed tackle he has a long way to go to force his way into a starting spot in Dragons first grade - although a bench spot for NSW origin this year is not out of the question.
With the return of many league players from union the average height and weight of the wallabies backline has fallen from 191cm when Lotte and where's wendle where in there to 187cm today.
Why do we have to take them back, why can't we just keep developing and exporting talent, its our second biggest export after coal. If you abandon ship that's it pal your gone for good.
Even teams in a ultimate competitive advantage are still happy to pick casts offs. Remember these quotes;
"The team and I endorse the action of the QRL in dropping Israle for the good of the game" Darren Lockyer Sunday 2.30pm before the selected the Queensland team for game 2
"Welcome back mate" Darren, Tuesday 8am.
All the chickens are coming home to roost, flying in from their tax havens trying to escape the nuclear winter that is the inevitable collapse of the Eurozone curency. Hopefully it wont get to the stage where we not only get the expats back but we start getting all the European players escaping to play in NSW. We dont want to get to the situation that they are in with the Engish premier League Soccer, where only a third of players in the league are acctually English and they are generally the bottom third of players. So when it comes to the world cup they get thrashed.
No for the good of the game we need to stick to the system home grown talent and lets start by putting any player returning from overseas on Christmas island.
Forget the refugee's escaping from a war zone what about the English super league migrants escaping Euorzone tax havens. After a year of sunning himself on French Riviera the Gaz is back trying to impress the selectors, but with match stats of no line breaks, seven tackles and one missed tackle he has a long way to go to force his way into a starting spot in Dragons first grade - although a bench spot for NSW origin this year is not out of the question.
With the return of many league players from union the average height and weight of the wallabies backline has fallen from 191cm when Lotte and where's wendle where in there to 187cm today.
Why do we have to take them back, why can't we just keep developing and exporting talent, its our second biggest export after coal. If you abandon ship that's it pal your gone for good.
Even teams in a ultimate competitive advantage are still happy to pick casts offs. Remember these quotes;
"The team and I endorse the action of the QRL in dropping Israle for the good of the game" Darren Lockyer Sunday 2.30pm before the selected the Queensland team for game 2
"Welcome back mate" Darren, Tuesday 8am.
All the chickens are coming home to roost, flying in from their tax havens trying to escape the nuclear winter that is the inevitable collapse of the Eurozone curency. Hopefully it wont get to the stage where we not only get the expats back but we start getting all the European players escaping to play in NSW. We dont want to get to the situation that they are in with the Engish premier League Soccer, where only a third of players in the league are acctually English and they are generally the bottom third of players. So when it comes to the world cup they get thrashed.
No for the good of the game we need to stick to the system home grown talent and lets start by putting any player returning from overseas on Christmas island.
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