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<blockquote data-quote="SomeOke" data-source="post: 990287" data-attributes="member: 59145"><p>I think you've misread it mate:</p><p></p><p>Early in the article:</p><p>"Sanzaar chief executive Andy Marinos has poured cold water on <a href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/119581827/study-shows-huge-bias-by-home-refs-towards-south-african-teams" target="_blank">complaints about the standard of refereeing in Super Rugby</a>, saying statistics that show South African officials appearing to favour sides from their own country need to be "validated"."</p><p></p><p>Then later:</p><p>"Yet recent figures published by rugby website Green and Gold Rugby from 2017-2019 <a href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/119581827/study-shows-huge-bias-by-home-refs-towards-south-african-teams" target="_blank">highlight some alarming trends</a>."</p><p></p><p>So the above link goes to an opinion piece and it states:</p><p>"According to the numbers crunched by a <strong>Green and Gold Rugby contributor</strong>, latest trends in this area are somewhat alarming and revel a major advantage in terms of penalties awarded to South African teams against overseas opposition when refereed by South African referees."</p><p></p><p></p><p>So basically a contributer to the Aussie website Green and Gold Rugby did the analysis, whatever that means (that's vague enough that it might even just be a user of the forum).</p><p></p><p>That doesn't invalidate the stats, but it does require further investigation in my opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SomeOke, post: 990287, member: 59145"] I think you've misread it mate: Early in the article: "Sanzaar chief executive Andy Marinos has poured cold water on [URL='https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/119581827/study-shows-huge-bias-by-home-refs-towards-south-african-teams']complaints about the standard of refereeing in Super Rugby[/URL], saying statistics that show South African officials appearing to favour sides from their own country need to be "validated"." Then later: "Yet recent figures published by rugby website Green and Gold Rugby from 2017-2019 [URL='https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/119581827/study-shows-huge-bias-by-home-refs-towards-south-african-teams']highlight some alarming trends[/URL]." So the above link goes to an opinion piece and it states: "According to the numbers crunched by a [B]Green and Gold Rugby contributor[/B], latest trends in this area are somewhat alarming and revel a major advantage in terms of penalties awarded to South African teams against overseas opposition when refereed by South African referees." So basically a contributer to the Aussie website Green and Gold Rugby did the analysis, whatever that means (that's vague enough that it might even just be a user of the forum). That doesn't invalidate the stats, but it does require further investigation in my opinion. [/QUOTE]
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