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Disgraceful treatment of Fiji by ref and coverage
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<blockquote data-quote="Umaga&#039;s Witness" data-source="post: 1145242" data-attributes="member: 65365"><p>I didn't see any bias. It was simply a case of a ref not wanting to give away too many penalties and cards, probably on orders from world rugby, and the welsh non-decisions being marginal calls on that basis even though they'd likely have been called in another game. The biggar one for instance, every day a yellow in another game, but in this game because fiji managed relatively quick ball anyway he let it slide. Ultimately fiji suffered more from the referees approach, but there was a lot of non-calls going both ways in that game. Of course unconscious bias could have affected those calls too, but it seems a bit ridiculous to suggest there is a conscious bias as a result of some anti-tier 2 world rugby conspiracy that all the referees are in on. As much as I think alternative theories should be contemplated, I just can't see how there wouldn't be some referee who said no and outed world rugby for what they'd been asked to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umaga's Witness, post: 1145242, member: 65365"] I didn't see any bias. It was simply a case of a ref not wanting to give away too many penalties and cards, probably on orders from world rugby, and the welsh non-decisions being marginal calls on that basis even though they'd likely have been called in another game. The biggar one for instance, every day a yellow in another game, but in this game because fiji managed relatively quick ball anyway he let it slide. Ultimately fiji suffered more from the referees approach, but there was a lot of non-calls going both ways in that game. Of course unconscious bias could have affected those calls too, but it seems a bit ridiculous to suggest there is a conscious bias as a result of some anti-tier 2 world rugby conspiracy that all the referees are in on. As much as I think alternative theories should be contemplated, I just can't see how there wouldn't be some referee who said no and outed world rugby for what they'd been asked to do. [/QUOTE]
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