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<blockquote data-quote="Horacito" data-source="post: 738252" data-attributes="member: 71745"><p>-I am not saying referees cannot be wrong, I'm saying you don't get to complain. Why? Because this is how it is, you don't talk to the ref on the field and you souldn't do it outside it, because that is called whining and is sort of pathetic. And this is not soccer. I know that we are adopting their things like annoying the kicker, the damn laser (that's only ours) and other great gifts of the football, but we just shouldn't. </p><p></p><p>-The problem with this is that he's been doing it for over a year. And Argentina played some games in that period, and none of the other referees said anything. Probably what happens is that the new scrum rules are bad and we need to go back to what we had, and that's ok. But it affects us all equally. </p><p></p><p>Ford example, New Zealand also owned by Pumas adapted at the last RC game last year and this year they were very solid. Maby SA could do the same and stop puting a mass of flesh of 300 tons waiting to be able to do the job just by weight. </p><p></p><p>-I was wrong to include Bismarck and John, although I do recall Adrian Strauss playing as replacement of Janie in some occasion, but I must be wrong. Any case, if the only remarcable first rowers I can remember are hookers and legend Os du Randt, maybe I am a bit right. Also, Mealamu was wrong, but I have to say I only put it there because I remember some of this two years when he smashed the replacement of Figallo at the breakdown, which was the great feature of Roncero and Ledesma apart from scrum. It shocked me so much that performance that I just remembered him. SA game against New Zealand I recall it as competent, but then again, I don't think you can say two games are indicative of anything when in the other one you get smashed by another scrum -40 kg than you and go last year to be gang banged by Ireland. And How is that a game against Australian scrum counts as great? Last year they were horrible and this year they have improved a lot, but how is that last year they were called almost a shame to the wallabie jersey in terms of scrum and when they improve a little you get to put a great game against them as a prove of capacity? It's schizophrenic. </p><p></p><p>Cheers</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horacito, post: 738252, member: 71745"] -I am not saying referees cannot be wrong, I'm saying you don't get to complain. Why? Because this is how it is, you don't talk to the ref on the field and you souldn't do it outside it, because that is called whining and is sort of pathetic. And this is not soccer. I know that we are adopting their things like annoying the kicker, the damn laser (that's only ours) and other great gifts of the football, but we just shouldn't. -The problem with this is that he's been doing it for over a year. And Argentina played some games in that period, and none of the other referees said anything. Probably what happens is that the new scrum rules are bad and we need to go back to what we had, and that's ok. But it affects us all equally. Ford example, New Zealand also owned by Pumas adapted at the last RC game last year and this year they were very solid. Maby SA could do the same and stop puting a mass of flesh of 300 tons waiting to be able to do the job just by weight. -I was wrong to include Bismarck and John, although I do recall Adrian Strauss playing as replacement of Janie in some occasion, but I must be wrong. Any case, if the only remarcable first rowers I can remember are hookers and legend Os du Randt, maybe I am a bit right. Also, Mealamu was wrong, but I have to say I only put it there because I remember some of this two years when he smashed the replacement of Figallo at the breakdown, which was the great feature of Roncero and Ledesma apart from scrum. It shocked me so much that performance that I just remembered him. SA game against New Zealand I recall it as competent, but then again, I don't think you can say two games are indicative of anything when in the other one you get smashed by another scrum -40 kg than you and go last year to be gang banged by Ireland. And How is that a game against Australian scrum counts as great? Last year they were horrible and this year they have improved a lot, but how is that last year they were called almost a shame to the wallabie jersey in terms of scrum and when they improve a little you get to put a great game against them as a prove of capacity? It's schizophrenic. Cheers [/QUOTE]
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