Squealing Stompie crybabies fined . . .

The Hapless Stompies have been found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute and breaching the SANZAR code of conduct after their officials launched into a typically tearful Stompie tantrum against a linesman in the match against the Hurricanes on April 26.

You can read the article here.

The Stompies have to pay a fine of $A15000 (about R137000) and they also had to issue a grovelling apology to the linesman who was subjected to their disgusting verbal abuse, Sheldon Eden-Whaitiri.

Glad to see that these pathetic whiners are no longer getting away with their never-ending bitching and blubbering every time a ref's decision goes against them. Well done SANZAR!

Rooinek

Thanks for the info - they should dedut the fine from the salary of Coetzee - to punish him for moaning - whie he makes shit team selections.

By the way - that complaining referee was wrong repeatedly  and he should have been read th riot act as well - but the issue herewas abuseof him - during the game and that was really what caused the fine.   Wonder whether he was not read the riot act afterwards - but we will of course never know about it. 

Ou Maaik, firstly I'm not sure if you're referring to the same incident because the abuse that the Stompies were fined for was directed at the linesman, not the ref.

Secondly, all refs (and linesmen and TMOs) are subjected to reviews of their performance after every game so we don't need players, fans, officials or indeed message board contributors to whine non-stop about all their mistakes. People who are far more qualified than you or I are already monitoring performances and ensuring that we get the best possible officiating.

I'll say it again, the current professional rugby refs are the best qualified people on this planet to officiate in rugby matches and anyone who has a problem accepting that fact should find some other sport to follow.

I find all this bitching and moaning about referees to be nothing short of pathetic and I'm afraid to say that my fellow South Africans (and the Stompie Blowhards in particular) are the worst culprits.

Roionek

I was referring to the line judge - not the referee.   I never before saw him reffing any full game - and it is unlikely that it would happen,  since there are referee assessments and sometimes the outcomes become public knowledge.  The referees are then not used for a while - eg Berry - but Berry was a referee, and he was on ice for more than a month before he was given another game to ref - that probably was his punishment for his major flop in the Chetahs - Stormers game.

Bwahahahhahahaha typical rooitwit grovelling. When oh when will ou rooitwit ever become more than a doormat for biased refs and officials.
What ou rootwit has never realised is that unless there is protest these twits get away with murder. Hence the eminent Prof Tim Noakes calling for an investigation after the Bryce Lawrence debacle. Evil abounds when good men do nothing.

Well done Stormers keep telling these guys were to get off.  Perhaps some other franchises should step up to the plate as well!  Together we can solve the problem! 

Baboon-ou, just so I'm clear, when you refer to the Bryce Lawrence "debacle" are you referring to the disgraceful and embarrassing episode where the shrill and indignant squealing of blubbering and excuse-making half-wits like you - together with vitriolic Facebook campaigns and even death threats - caused a decent rugby man to give up his profession because he feared for his life if he ever reffed in South Africa again?

Is that the "debacle" you're referring to?

A truly shameful chapter in South African rugby!

rooitwit obviously the widespread condemantion of bycy's diabolical ref displalys has passed over your head as has his sacking by th IRB etc etc.

It would serve little purpose, given we are dealing with a "mind' closed more closly than a vice, to spend more ime on the matter.

However rooitwit allow me to post some thoughtful opinions by Saffa fans in respect of their views regarding refs (Unlike the dormat rooitwit these fans are standing up and expressing their rightful displeasure at unacceptable levels of offication -Rooi how about posting that niceblack and white pic of you again!)

Oh I see, so your response to my claim that South Africans are generally a bunch of blubbering crybabies when it comes to referees is to put up a selection of quotes from blubbering crybabies crying about refs?

Poor little dears. Sniff! What naughty referees! They're always so ugly to your poor Stompies. It's so unfair . . . I think I'm going to cry . . . boohoohoo!

Listen Baboon-ou, I'm sure I've told you this before but if you (or the other pathetic little ref-bashing crybabies) have any constructive suggestions to make . . . or if you know of better qualified refs . . . or if you're aware of some extra-terrestial species that doesn't make normal human mistakes . . . then by all means, let's hear about it. On the other hand, if all you're going to do is bleat and whinge and threaten to stop watching rugby if the referees don't miraculously improve, then rather just don't watch rugby . . . because this is as good as it gets.

Okay? Good. Then dry your little eyes and run along, Baboon-ou. There's a brave little chap!

Yea death threats are apart of the job when refing in SA that makes it easy to be impartial dont it. There are already so few reasons why a young bloke would want a career as a ref, so yeah lets just slam them and tell them we want to kill them and jump the fence to blind shot the poor bastard while he's working..... You really are a dumb shit arn't you benzip? What do you do for a job again?

In this case they didn't specifically go into detail as to what was said that was offensive, however taking the frustration on the assistant ref by being verbally abusive isn't right. Players have to be careful what they say because they can easily become a target especially SA players, the player could've been more excessive to the ref. I can recall a other time this occured although nothing was done about it with the other teams. The majority of the people are only focusing on one side of the spectrum but not the other which is why didn't the assistant ref also get fined or at least fired for being terrible at reffing? For those of you who did watch the Stormers vs Hurricanes match in Palmerston North knows how poor the assistant ref and ref was. I watched it the second time and from what i can observe the communication between the assistant ref and the ref was in fact very bad, the assistant ref needs to get more involved not just put the flag up for touch. Franks did knock the ball out of the half back hands while the pass was being made that is a penalty he is not entitled to do that, they called for a knock on for the Stormers player instead, Franks was throwing punches but no yellow card?

For 15K Id say it was worth voicing opinions about disgraceful cheating refs. The kiwis need to be put in their place re their injustices toward visiting teams. Its not just aussie teams that cop it obviously.

I have not doubt the RWC was rigged by partial reffing to give the homeside the MAX advantage and I would even bring Craig Jorbet into this conspiracy with his reffing in the GF v france.

Anyway the kiwis will find out soon enough whether thier teams are as good as they like to think or its actually been bent refs giving them a leg all these years.

Rootneck - Bryce has been a cheat for many a years prior to RWC just unfortunately Aussies are too good natured and accepting otherwise he would have had crossairs put on him long time ago.

RooiAAS I for one am not aware of any "extra-terrestial"(sic) species....nor is Oxford. Bwaaaaaaaaahahahaha.

Hey rooitwit I have some very constructive suggestions to make.

Strict action should be taken against miscreant refs. The culture of the refs beng beyond criticism should be overturned - in as much as players and managment get stick why should refs etc be exempt.

Action taken agains refs should be made known - ie transparency. Coaches should take up with the authorities bad refereeing more often and more vigourously. Refs should appear before tribunals much like players do. TMO should be able to overturn bad ref decisions. Captains should have three appeals to TMO per half.

Stats of all ref decisions should be anlaysed with a view to detecting bias. This should be reviewed by a panel and the right questions asked of the ref concerned an dthe appropriate disciplinary action etc taken.

Blatant mistakes costing a side a game should be reversed and the points adjusted accordingly. Refs again must explain themselves. Its too easy to fob things off. (Take the case of Honiss telling Smit to talk to his team and then allowing Ireland to score - later he admitted he had made a "mistake" - ban him for life)

Financial disclosure details should be made to the panel re assets etc and forensic audits done. The money trail will often tell a tale.

The tone at the top should change. Zero tolerence of ccorrupt and incomptetent refs.

Finally all nz refs should b ebanned in any games involving non nz side. 

The cesspool needs to be cleaned up and doing the above would soon restore integrity into the process.

Bent refs bring the game into disrepute fa rmor ethan the Stormers complaining

Follow this sound advice and all the problems would soon be pretty much sorted.

Beeno attempting the impossible- educating my good buddy rooitwit!.

Redsman ... are you still sobbong your eyes out over been spanked this past weekend???

Huh??

Do me a favour will ya ... grow a pair!!!

My God but you're stupid, Baboon-ou!

Duh-huh! Il iket oreplyb eforeir eadt heo thep ersonsc omments!

Oh pease rooitwit try and engage a bit with what is being said. I am not talking about phony review systems where no action is taken there has to be some bite in all this, some transparancy. If you think what we have is working you simply have no clue.

rooitwit says "their officials launched into a typically tearful Stompie tantrum against a linesman".

Wrong pic Rooinek, the monkey needs an eye patch to be as one eyed as benzip is. Greatz benzip you have sunk to new lows.

New lows? I thought I had conveyed ou mcaaaws escapade with the british madam before? Also I think his being called mccheat is widely know and used. Cant see any new lows re mcaaaw at all. Has he gone lower?

AB&B, truth is I feel a bit bad comparing Baboon-ou with a baboon. It's probably a bit unfair . . . so I apologize to all baboons everywhere!

Meet rooitwit - he talks to baboons. Why am I not surprised.

What sort of ignorant, slope headed fool would post: "spouting the same repetetive and ignorant garbage?"

 Earlier before being fined I read that the Stormers were trying to distance themslves from the incident.

I find that very easy to believe.

 What is of far greater concern to rugby was why did this guy react like this. In a court of law both sides of the story are heard. Here we dont know all that happened to incenses the guy. Its all hushed up. What is need is transparency. Was he incensed for a reason is the real issue. What was the cause of this. What is being done to ensure it doesnt happen again. Are the officals being dealt with et etc.

Hehe . . . nice one Ceradyne!

Come on windpomp and ou rooitwit we did beat the sharks in the Currie Cup and in the Super 15. Its a bit harsh saying in effect the sharks are nobody.

Another one for you Beenbal. Unfortunately it is in Afrikaans, but I am sure you will get it:

Nothing unites the Board losers more than their jealousy of the Cape. But I can understand, having spent my early days in the Transvaal, going to the Cape was a sudden discovery of how rewarding life can be. As for the Pamplona escapees in rural England....my question is, does it feel any better?

I guess that you will have to ask one of the Pamplona escapees in rural if you really wanted to know, Moz.. If you can find one, that is.

 Hahaha......which part doesn't fit Pamplona or the Clydesdale Pegasus?

First it was Hakwa with his unfortunate use of pictures to undermine rugby facts now we have ou windpomp doing the same.