No, or not to the same extent. All open-sides cheat to a lesser or greater degree; Neil Back was at his best on the very edge of legality. It's up to the refs to police the break-downs properly & make sure that players know where the line is. As I said, in time gone by you wouldn't lie on the ball at the breakdown if you cared one iota for your health, nowadays the game's going all touchy-feely-newage so some loosies take the piss.
Yeah I agree with what you are saying, FTR I think McCaw made a couple of turnovers that was fairly obvious cheating but the referee didn't see it, expertise from McCaw I suppose you could call it. The anti-rucking thing is getting so bad that even at an 1st XV level in New Zealand you aren't allowed to ruck the person, you can only ruck the ball. Burger does have a dubious tackling style and quite often slips above the shoulders but he hasn't really been pulled up too much, so he'll continue to do it until he does.
It's fair enough for them to whinge I reckon. It happens to McCaw every time he plays now and it wont be long before he sustains a serious injury if these cheap and high shots on him continue. Burger in particular was just blatantly trying to injure him. The main problem is his teammates should be dishing out on-field punishment at the time but are not. I would have thought Collins would be the man to do this but I think there is a bit of history between he and McCaw that might be stopping him. Anyway, I wouldn't play McCaw in the return match for this reason, especially now the yarps have written off the Tri-Nations and are apparently resting 20 odd of their best players for the tour.
It's true, to a certain extent. I always laugh at how the NZ rugby public react after games, they are a pack of whinging ****s.
It's cause people love the game and expect a very high standard. You stick to your cheerleading mate
Hahahahahaha, dire. I love the game as well and there are few things more beautiful than seeing rugby played to a very high standard, that was one reason I was so excited about the Saffies in the first 20 minutes. Their forward domination of us was totally massive, an excellent sight to see.
I like Tony Johnson
For the life of me I can't see how. He used to have some quite good thoughts, now all he does is whine about **** or blow hot air up the player's arses.
Johnson > Mexted
Nah, Murray says some silly things and grind peoples gears but at the end of the day he has some decent comments to make and isn't a biased **** like Johnson. Of course John Drake>>>>>>>>>>>both of them.
tbh I haven't noticed Johnson to be that biased. Just calls it as he sees it so must see it as I do I suppose
I suggest you listen next time to how much he whinges when we are having trouble and how great he thinks we are when we win.
