Comments on: Yet another SANZAR Citing Commissioner FAIL

By: Julien Dupuy eye gouge, in comparison to Burger and Parisse | BlogSpot Rugby

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:00:14 +0000

[...] in the above footage. In a year that has been riddled with erratic (at best) judicial processes, here, here, here (and the list goes on), it will be interesting to see what comes of this latest [...]

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:31:24 +0000

As a Saffer, all we want is fairness.
Jacques Fourie now gets 4 (read that again you IRB … kers) 4 week ban for less action than Brad Thorne on John Smit. Where is the bloody fairness.
I suppose the IRB (Inconsistent Rugby Boo’s) always guns for the Number 1 team in world. What a lemon for them to suck on. Number 1 in the world. Hey, IRB read that again, NUMBER ONE TEAM IN THE WORLD.
Maybe it’s time for another Rugby Board to oversee the game of Rugby. I will wholly support a change in control.

By: IRB threaten to ban Springboks from RWC 2011 | BlogSpot Rugby

IRB threaten to ban Springboks from RWC 2011 | BlogSpot Rugby — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:09:15 +0000

[...] As far as I’m concerned, the only people guilty of bringing the “Game of Rugby” into disrepute are the IRB themselves for not acting on the countless complaints to rectify the injustices of the so blatantly biased citing a judiciary systems. I’m beginning to sound like a stuck record, complaining about how the IRB’s citing process keeps FAIL-ing us. [...]

By: Tri Nations – Tri Nations 2009 4th Test – post match analysis | BlogSpot Rugby

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:23:40 +0000

[...] David Gray, failed to cite Matt Giteau for his malicious charge on Fourie Du Preez. I stated before that I don’t in anyway think that Giteau is a dirty player, he isn’t. He even apologised [...]

By: Dooley

Dooley — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:03:22 +0000

@Francois and Dan, Pienaar plays a prettier game, but at the same time a win is a win.The Aussies chose to play the high penalty risk, spoiling game. So I guess we can look at it as the Springboks playing the game plan that they did to punish the Aussies lack of discipline. If the roll were reversed, the Aussies wouldn’t be complaining. They would be claiming a good win. We might not be scoring tries, which does kind of worry me, but the oppostion are also spoiling everytime we get in the strike zone, which is going to keep costing them dearly untill they stop and we have a fair chance of scoring those well structured backline tries that we are capable of. A few players, eg, JDV need to look at offloading in the tackle (like he used to), as he seems to wrap the ball up (for the opposition to clearly read) and go into contact everytime he touches it lately. Thanks for the support. Keep it up.

What do you think they can do to play a more entertaining game and keep winning?

By: Francois

Francois — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:21:02 +0000

@ Dan. I agree dude, but I guess the thinking is that winning games is priorirty. With pace makers like habana to chase kicks on the wing and our ability to put pressure on the other teams by making them play in there half results in numerous penalities that results into 3 points 95% of the time (with Morne Steyn record). After the Aussies scored in the 1st 2 min, we were back on top 9-7 by the 15th min, just from putting them under pressure in there half. I agree, it is not the prettiest of games, but no one can deny that with our strong points (great kickers, ball fetchers and chasers) that this game play is a well oilled machine to win games.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:09:16 +0000

I couldn’t agree more – absolutely crazy stuff. Giteau’s hit was malicious and could have caused a LOT of damage and he isn’t even called in. I honestly think that you are right that there are double standards, although actions like those of Schalk don’t exactly help the boks.

Great blog. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the current game plan of the boks with all the kicks and no action for the backs. Personally I think it’s great that we’re winning, but the game is looking more and more like Ozzie rules.