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Disgraceful treatment of Fiji by ref and coverage
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<blockquote data-quote="bulbs" data-source="post: 1144688" data-attributes="member: 87285"><p>I will preface this by saying I am a wallabies supporter and when not supporting the Wallabies I often support Wales. But today was a dark day for Rugby. The refereeing was so terribly biased. We all know that there is often a bias towards tier 1 teams getting a fairer deal but this match was going way too far. How did Biggar not get a yellow card for cynical play on the line he was never onside and it stopped a try. How many times does the referee need to say one more time and there will be a yellow card and then nothing happens. They were offside continually and then topped it off with the whole team slowly walking back to the half way line. Then they go down to the Fiji line and the fijians do one thing and 10minutes in the bin. I would have loved Fiji to have held that last pass and given international rugby a giant finger. And this was topped off by the biased coverage of the match. They did a big feature on Wales before the match and barely said anythng about Fiji. The commentary team were all Welsh with no impatial representation and the after match commentary was all about Wales and then when they were crossing to the Fiji coach for live interview they cut it off to talk more about Wales. It was so disrespectful. Instead of enjoying what was a crazy match I just feel so angry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bulbs, post: 1144688, member: 87285"] I will preface this by saying I am a wallabies supporter and when not supporting the Wallabies I often support Wales. But today was a dark day for Rugby. The refereeing was so terribly biased. We all know that there is often a bias towards tier 1 teams getting a fairer deal but this match was going way too far. How did Biggar not get a yellow card for cynical play on the line he was never onside and it stopped a try. How many times does the referee need to say one more time and there will be a yellow card and then nothing happens. They were offside continually and then topped it off with the whole team slowly walking back to the half way line. Then they go down to the Fiji line and the fijians do one thing and 10minutes in the bin. I would have loved Fiji to have held that last pass and given international rugby a giant finger. And this was topped off by the biased coverage of the match. They did a big feature on Wales before the match and barely said anythng about Fiji. The commentary team were all Welsh with no impatial representation and the after match commentary was all about Wales and then when they were crossing to the Fiji coach for live interview they cut it off to talk more about Wales. It was so disrespectful. Instead of enjoying what was a crazy match I just feel so angry. [/QUOTE]
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