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Tri Nations 2009-2011
All Blacks vs Wallabies, August 7th 2010, Fifth Tri Nations Test
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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 334796" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>Well you did ask, literally!! </p><p></p><p>Oh hell mate! And you we're to doing so well until the last line!!!!</p><p></p><p>Seriously, though, you have hit the nail on the head there regarding the speed of the game. This is what a lot of people (like the narrator of the video) fail to understand.</p><p></p><p>► The referee gets one look, at full speed, from one angle, at ground level, and the has to make a decision based on that.</p><p>► Us armchair critics get as many looks as we like, at any speed that we like from a selection of angles, some of which are elevated. </p><p></p><p>Its the Catch-22 scenario (or the Kobayashi Maru scenario if you are a Star Trek fan), the no-win situation. Referees are going to make mistakes, not see stuff, see more than one thing and have to decide what to penalise, and then cop a barrage of criticism for not doing what the armchair critic thought he should have.</p><p></p><p> As a rule I no longer bother spending time editing and assembling videos. Also, I don't bother analysing them UNLESS I see someone like the narrator, putting an obviously biased/slanted piece of selective editing together like this, and then still analysing it incorrectly because their knowledge of the Laws and their application is fundamentally flawed.</p><p></p><p>What I enjoy doing much more is to let them do all the tedious work of compiling and analysing their video, then tearing their analysis to shreds using my years of experience as a referee and my knowledge of the Laws of the Game to do so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 334796, member: 20605"] Well you did ask, literally!! Oh hell mate! And you we're to doing so well until the last line!!!! Seriously, though, you have hit the nail on the head there regarding the speed of the game. This is what a lot of people (like the narrator of the video) fail to understand. ► The referee gets one look, at full speed, from one angle, at ground level, and the has to make a decision based on that. ► Us armchair critics get as many looks as we like, at any speed that we like from a selection of angles, some of which are elevated. Its the Catch-22 scenario (or the Kobayashi Maru scenario if you are a Star Trek fan), the no-win situation. Referees are going to make mistakes, not see stuff, see more than one thing and have to decide what to penalise, and then cop a barrage of criticism for not doing what the armchair critic thought he should have. As a rule I no longer bother spending time editing and assembling videos. Also, I don't bother analysing them UNLESS I see someone like the narrator, putting an obviously biased/slanted piece of selective editing together like this, and then still analysing it incorrectly because their knowledge of the Laws and their application is fundamentally flawed. What I enjoy doing much more is to let them do all the tedious work of compiling and analysing their video, then tearing their analysis to shreds using my years of experience as a referee and my knowledge of the Laws of the Game to do so. [/QUOTE]
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