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<blockquote data-quote="Peat" data-source="post: 738197" data-attributes="member: 42330"><p>Not too sure about Mealamu being a prop either.</p><p></p><p>That said -</p><p></p><p>Routinely making crap decisions when reffing a team is not neccessarily bias. It's also quite possibly bad luck. It'd be pretty aberrant if every ref's bad decisions were equally doled around. I'm not saying there is no bias around, I'd be amazed if there was absolutely zero subconscious bias involved, but given how difficult it is to prove and how damaging an accusation can be, I don't see any point in bringing it in. You consistently get crap decisions from a ref; could be anything.</p><p></p><p>After all, lets be honest here, every ref gives crap decisions consistently. No one is shocked to hear Poite might have got the scrum decisions wrong; no one. It's just what he does. And yet he'll go to the World Cup and, while I don't know why, the argument that everyone else is even crapper is strangely plausible. Super Rugby, the JWC, Pro 12 - everywhere - godawful decisions are everywhere. Particularly in the scrum.</p><p></p><p>The general quality and consistency of reffing is far more of a glaring definite issue than any one ref or any possibility of bias; it's quite offputting enough without even considered these things. </p><p></p><p>That said - to allow the game to restart with medics on the field and the captain talking to his team is the sort of action that will have any sane and intelligent man looking at conspiracy, tis true.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peat, post: 738197, member: 42330"] Not too sure about Mealamu being a prop either. That said - Routinely making crap decisions when reffing a team is not neccessarily bias. It's also quite possibly bad luck. It'd be pretty aberrant if every ref's bad decisions were equally doled around. I'm not saying there is no bias around, I'd be amazed if there was absolutely zero subconscious bias involved, but given how difficult it is to prove and how damaging an accusation can be, I don't see any point in bringing it in. You consistently get crap decisions from a ref; could be anything. After all, lets be honest here, every ref gives crap decisions consistently. No one is shocked to hear Poite might have got the scrum decisions wrong; no one. It's just what he does. And yet he'll go to the World Cup and, while I don't know why, the argument that everyone else is even crapper is strangely plausible. Super Rugby, the JWC, Pro 12 - everywhere - godawful decisions are everywhere. Particularly in the scrum. The general quality and consistency of reffing is far more of a glaring definite issue than any one ref or any possibility of bias; it's quite offputting enough without even considered these things. That said - to allow the game to restart with medics on the field and the captain talking to his team is the sort of action that will have any sane and intelligent man looking at conspiracy, tis true. [/QUOTE]
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