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Third umpire referral in rugby.

Started by bluebok86 REPLIES701 VIEWS· 08 Sept 2014, 11:00
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becsPro4,378 posts
10 Sept 2014, 15:53
#81
10 Sept 2014, 15:53#81
Wardad, there always has been and there always will be. That is part and parcel of the game. 
We don't want to know what goes on.....my Uncle was a Prop at Northampton. He enjoyed it though !!!  

 It's a talent, being able to cheat and get away with it, in the Scrum. Don't take the fun out if the game for the Front Row...they can't do anything else  
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hakwaPro4,146 posts
10 Sept 2014, 17:07
#82
10 Sept 2014, 17:07#82
 and to think of all those people criticizing Sir Richie tsk tsk tsk (present company excluded of course)
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becsPro4,378 posts
10 Sept 2014, 17:11
#83
10 Sept 2014, 17:11#83
I was being sarcastic !!!  
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hakwaPro4,146 posts
10 Sept 2014, 17:27
#84
10 Sept 2014, 17:27#84
 so was I
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becsPro4,378 posts
10 Sept 2014, 18:11
#85
10 Sept 2014, 18:11#85
Hurrah ! 
Let's hope Plum has been on a big wind up too....he doesn't seem to realise technology seems to fail in Sport all the time    
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redsmanPro1,710 posts
11 Sept 2014, 06:24
#86
11 Sept 2014, 06:24#86

Becs- I disagree - look @ the amount of errors made with tech vs human judgement alone.


The tennis is a perfect example - hawkeye works and players and fans are cool with it.


To me it appears that you really just want to keep tech out of the equation to leave more room for refs to err... for what purpose ?


It may slow the game down a bit - but lets face it not the fastest game anyway... and it wont fix every howler... but will definitely reduce the occurrence and re-occurrence of them.


THe NFL is way beyond that of the IRB in this sense and they have their flag / review system - may not be 100% but way better than leaving it to human judgement on ground level when the millions viewing see the injustice...




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PlumCaptain21,007 posts
11 Sept 2014, 11:12
#87
11 Sept 2014, 11:12#87
 Plum has not been on a big wind up Becs. Tech is being used in sport more and more and as far as i can tell it's generally for the betterment of sport and ensuring the correct team/player wins. 
Remember the world cup where England score a goal and it was disallowed because the ref said it never crossed the line? Yet the ball was almost a meter over the line.
With the simple introduction of goal-line technology those sorts of errors have been entirely eradicated. Sure there are still other mistakes, but slowly it is improving. DUE TO TECHNOLOGY.

Becs i really think your stance on this is biased for some some reason. 
And big NO, tech does not fail as much as humans do. If you think that's the case then some actual examples and objective comparisons would be smashing.
Anyhoos, i've made all the points i am able to about this so ultimately i'm just gonna agree to disagree with you Becs.
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