It’s a bit easier in rugby though, players respect the officials, there are less contentious decisions and when there are the yellow card waiting for the red is the get out. The decision isn’t out into the ref on field.
There’s also less cheating and gamesmanship.
There’s also less cheating and gamesmanship
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Yeah because there's a lot less riding on it. You put that much money into rugby and a worldwide audience, it'll be exactly the same
comment by Bãleš left boot-e-cog-lou (U22081)
posted 42 seconds ago
There’s also less cheating and gamesmanship
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Yeah because there's a lot less riding on it. You put that much money into rugby and a worldwide audience, it'll be exactly the same
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Nah, it’s the culture of the sport. This is a World Cup, players will still try to gain advantage but cheating isn’t well tolerated.
I guess being a contact sport also makes no diving etc.
Yeah it's the culture of the sport for a reason
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 42 minutes ago
comment by Bãleš left boot-e-cog-lou (U22081)
posted 42 seconds ago
There’s also less cheating and gamesmanship
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Yeah because there's a lot less riding on it. You put that much money into rugby and a worldwide audience, it'll be exactly the same
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Nah, it’s the culture of the sport. This is a World Cup, players will still try to gain advantage but cheating isn’t well tolerated.
I guess being a contact sport also makes no diving etc.
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No holding your head like you've been hit by a baseball bat or falling over as if sniped from 2000 feet.
You'd get laughed off the pitch on rugby.
Football, 90 minutes of pretending you are hurt, rugby, 80 minutes of pretending you aren't.
I like rugby but cmon. The whole sport is worth less than Japanese second division football. If you don't think that difference it's a huge factor for how much scrutiny refs decisions are under and what those involved would do to win, I don't know what to tell you
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_sports_leagues_by_revenue
Ive been to Rugby games many times, and the prospect of a good pizz up before, during and after the game with the oppo players/visitors in the clubhouse is a lot more anticipated that moaning or bragging about the result of the game. That is soon forgotten.
comment by Bãleš left boot-e-cog-lou (U22081)
posted 1 hour, 4 minutes ago
There’s also less cheating and gamesmanship
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Yeah because there's a lot less riding on it. You put that much money into rugby and a worldwide audience, it'll be exactly the same
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“there's a lot less riding on it”
You do realise this is the WC? Which has quite “a lot riding on it”!
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 1 hour, 5 minutes ago
comment by Bãleš left boot-e-cog-lou (U22081)
posted 42 seconds ago
There’s also less cheating and gamesmanship
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Yeah because there's a lot less riding on it. You put that much money into rugby and a worldwide audience, it'll be exactly the same
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Nah, it’s the culture of the sport. This is a World Cup, players will still try to gain advantage but cheating isn’t well tolerated.
I guess being a contact sport also makes no diving etc.
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I gotta agree with Bales, less money, less motivation to be corrupted.
Football is a contact sport isn’t it?
If the rugby VAR is soooo good how come a SA player puts in a head on head against Scotland which was almost identical to the one that got an England player yellow then red yesterday and it wasn't even reviewed by the TMO? Every bit as corrupt.
I also remember a ref - French iirc - that repeatedly treated Scotland with contempt in big matches. More corruption akin to the English footy refs y'all shout about.
Wales v Fiji just there 3 pens on the line no card against Wales, Fiji first offence = card. Crowd let him know but damage done.
The one good aspect is the mic'd up officials and when a decision is being arrived at it is talked through wrt the rules and why it is the level of decision it is e.g. card or not, colour of card etc.
comment by RB&W - Whiteside has done it again (U21434)
posted 1 minute ago
Ive been to Rugby games many times, and the prospect of a good pizz up before, during and after the game with the oppo players/visitors in the clubhouse is a lot more anticipated that moaning or bragging about the result of the game. That is soon forgotten.
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Lighting farts is way better than slapping your partner about I suppose.
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 11 seconds ago
comment by RB&W - Whiteside has done it again (U21434)
posted 1 minute ago
Ive been to Rugby games many times, and the prospect of a good pizz up before, during and after the game with the oppo players/visitors in the clubhouse is a lot more anticipated that moaning or bragging about the result of the game. That is soon forgotten.
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Lighting farts is way better than slapping your partner about I suppose.
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and sitting on the floor in rows banging your heads with beer trays seems to work, too.
From what I have seen there is massive inconsistency in VAR in Rugby, but at the end of the day no one is passionate enough to care.
The commentators were moaning about play-acting during the Welsh game, so they seem to disagree with some of the views here that there isn't that sort of cheating.
And I have no knowledge of blood capsules being used in football to pretend to cheat.
Let's be honest, Rugby is just an excuse for public schoolboys to touch each others bottoms before going to the clubhouse and suck each others peens in perverted drinking games. Weird bunch are the ruggers lot.
they aint called Rugby Buggers for nothing
Rugby games aren’t cancelled
When there’s water on the pitch
They get up when they’ve been tackled,
They don’t roll about and bitch
And if the tackle’s really bad
And high or late and stuff
They’ll fight the bloke who did it
Till the Ref says “That’s enough!”
The forwards call the backs “The Girls”
It doesn’t mean they’re queer
They just haven’t got a broken nose
And cauliflower ear
Those forwards like to cuddle up
In what they call a scrum
And they smell each others’ armpit sweat
A head stuck up their bum
On the pitch the ref is God
Complain at your own cost
All you’re ever going to get
Is another ten yards lost
When the game is done and over
They shake hands like gentlemen
Then all jump in a big hot bath
And cuddle up again
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 28 minutes ago
If the rugby VAR is soooo good how come a SA player puts in a head on head against Scotland which was almost identical to the one that got an England player yellow then red yesterday and it wasn't even reviewed by the TMO? Every bit as corrupt.
I also remember a ref - French iirc - that repeatedly treated Scotland with contempt in big matches. More corruption akin to the English footy refs y'all shout about.
Wales v Fiji just there 3 pens on the line no card against Wales, Fiji first offence = card. Crowd let him know but damage done.
The one good aspect is the mic'd up officials and when a decision is being arrived at it is talked through wrt the rules and why it is the level of decision it is e.g. card or not, colour of card etc.
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Fair points. If you’re Scottish
But yes, the mic’d up VAR was the main instigator of this article.
The worst bit about rugby is whiney beech football fans trying to export their whiney beech moaning to it.
Rugby VAR is applied in a way that keeps the players and the people in the stadium informed.
In footy its just for the people watching on TV.
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 8 hours ago
The worst bit about rugby is whiney beech football fans trying to export their whiney beech moaning to it.
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Is this a joke? Rugby Union is decided by refereeing decisions like no other game I know. And here's a secret - before the refs were miked up - no one, but no one, could work out why half the decisions were being given. My son played a lot of rugby and is qualified as a referee. Even he doesn't know whats goig on hlaf the time. Rugby League is much better, but then the RL rules are a bit more rigid.
comment by Kamikaze Blue (U7450)
posted 13 minutes ago
Is this a joke? Rugby Union is decided by refereeing decisions like no other game I know. And here's a secret - before the refs were miked up - no one, but no one, could work out why half the decisions were being given.
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I thought it was obvious: a worldwide conspiracy to favour the Welsh and the Kiwis orchestrated by a dark, secret cabal known as the Sheeperati.
whats goig on hlaf the time
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If he gets as sloshed as you in the mornings it’s no wonder why.
Var has been terrible at the rugby. The Chilean bloke did exactly the same as Curry but he got a yellow rather than a red. Then they didn't bother reviewing the clear red by the south african bloke yesterday.
Ref in the Wales game was hopeless, desperate not to give any yellows to the Welsh.
It's good that they're micced up and explain things but it's no better at getting things right than at the football World cup.
2 G's, an L and an F. Must be Welsh.
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posted on 10/9/23
It’s a bit easier in rugby though, players respect the officials, there are less contentious decisions and when there are the yellow card waiting for the red is the get out. The decision isn’t out into the ref on field.
There’s also less cheating and gamesmanship.
posted on 10/9/23
There’s also less cheating and gamesmanship
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Yeah because there's a lot less riding on it. You put that much money into rugby and a worldwide audience, it'll be exactly the same
posted on 10/9/23
comment by Bãleš left boot-e-cog-lou (U22081)
posted 42 seconds ago
There’s also less cheating and gamesmanship
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Yeah because there's a lot less riding on it. You put that much money into rugby and a worldwide audience, it'll be exactly the same
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Nah, it’s the culture of the sport. This is a World Cup, players will still try to gain advantage but cheating isn’t well tolerated.
I guess being a contact sport also makes no diving etc.
posted on 10/9/23
Yeah it's the culture of the sport for a reason
posted on 10/9/23
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 42 minutes ago
comment by Bãleš left boot-e-cog-lou (U22081)
posted 42 seconds ago
There’s also less cheating and gamesmanship
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Yeah because there's a lot less riding on it. You put that much money into rugby and a worldwide audience, it'll be exactly the same
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Nah, it’s the culture of the sport. This is a World Cup, players will still try to gain advantage but cheating isn’t well tolerated.
I guess being a contact sport also makes no diving etc.
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No holding your head like you've been hit by a baseball bat or falling over as if sniped from 2000 feet.
You'd get laughed off the pitch on rugby.
posted on 10/9/23
Football, 90 minutes of pretending you are hurt, rugby, 80 minutes of pretending you aren't.
posted on 10/9/23
I like rugby but cmon. The whole sport is worth less than Japanese second division football. If you don't think that difference it's a huge factor for how much scrutiny refs decisions are under and what those involved would do to win, I don't know what to tell you
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_sports_leagues_by_revenue
posted on 10/9/23
Ive been to Rugby games many times, and the prospect of a good pizz up before, during and after the game with the oppo players/visitors in the clubhouse is a lot more anticipated that moaning or bragging about the result of the game. That is soon forgotten.
posted on 10/9/23
comment by Bãleš left boot-e-cog-lou (U22081)
posted 1 hour, 4 minutes ago
There’s also less cheating and gamesmanship
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Yeah because there's a lot less riding on it. You put that much money into rugby and a worldwide audience, it'll be exactly the same
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“there's a lot less riding on it”
You do realise this is the WC? Which has quite “a lot riding on it”!
posted on 10/9/23
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 1 hour, 5 minutes ago
comment by Bãleš left boot-e-cog-lou (U22081)
posted 42 seconds ago
There’s also less cheating and gamesmanship
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Yeah because there's a lot less riding on it. You put that much money into rugby and a worldwide audience, it'll be exactly the same
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Nah, it’s the culture of the sport. This is a World Cup, players will still try to gain advantage but cheating isn’t well tolerated.
I guess being a contact sport also makes no diving etc.
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I gotta agree with Bales, less money, less motivation to be corrupted.
Football is a contact sport isn’t it?
posted on 10/9/23
If the rugby VAR is soooo good how come a SA player puts in a head on head against Scotland which was almost identical to the one that got an England player yellow then red yesterday and it wasn't even reviewed by the TMO? Every bit as corrupt.
I also remember a ref - French iirc - that repeatedly treated Scotland with contempt in big matches. More corruption akin to the English footy refs y'all shout about.
Wales v Fiji just there 3 pens on the line no card against Wales, Fiji first offence = card. Crowd let him know but damage done.
The one good aspect is the mic'd up officials and when a decision is being arrived at it is talked through wrt the rules and why it is the level of decision it is e.g. card or not, colour of card etc.
posted on 10/9/23
comment by RB&W - Whiteside has done it again (U21434)
posted 1 minute ago
Ive been to Rugby games many times, and the prospect of a good pizz up before, during and after the game with the oppo players/visitors in the clubhouse is a lot more anticipated that moaning or bragging about the result of the game. That is soon forgotten.
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Lighting farts is way better than slapping your partner about I suppose.
posted on 10/9/23
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 11 seconds ago
comment by RB&W - Whiteside has done it again (U21434)
posted 1 minute ago
Ive been to Rugby games many times, and the prospect of a good pizz up before, during and after the game with the oppo players/visitors in the clubhouse is a lot more anticipated that moaning or bragging about the result of the game. That is soon forgotten.
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Lighting farts is way better than slapping your partner about I suppose.
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and sitting on the floor in rows banging your heads with beer trays seems to work, too.
posted on 10/9/23
From what I have seen there is massive inconsistency in VAR in Rugby, but at the end of the day no one is passionate enough to care.
The commentators were moaning about play-acting during the Welsh game, so they seem to disagree with some of the views here that there isn't that sort of cheating.
And I have no knowledge of blood capsules being used in football to pretend to cheat.
Let's be honest, Rugby is just an excuse for public schoolboys to touch each others bottoms before going to the clubhouse and suck each others peens in perverted drinking games. Weird bunch are the ruggers lot.
posted on 10/9/23
they aint called Rugby Buggers for nothing
posted on 10/9/23
Rugby games aren’t cancelled
When there’s water on the pitch
They get up when they’ve been tackled,
They don’t roll about and bitch
And if the tackle’s really bad
And high or late and stuff
They’ll fight the bloke who did it
Till the Ref says “That’s enough!”
The forwards call the backs “The Girls”
It doesn’t mean they’re queer
They just haven’t got a broken nose
And cauliflower ear
Those forwards like to cuddle up
In what they call a scrum
And they smell each others’ armpit sweat
A head stuck up their bum
On the pitch the ref is God
Complain at your own cost
All you’re ever going to get
Is another ten yards lost
When the game is done and over
They shake hands like gentlemen
Then all jump in a big hot bath
And cuddle up again
posted on 10/9/23
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 28 minutes ago
If the rugby VAR is soooo good how come a SA player puts in a head on head against Scotland which was almost identical to the one that got an England player yellow then red yesterday and it wasn't even reviewed by the TMO? Every bit as corrupt.
I also remember a ref - French iirc - that repeatedly treated Scotland with contempt in big matches. More corruption akin to the English footy refs y'all shout about.
Wales v Fiji just there 3 pens on the line no card against Wales, Fiji first offence = card. Crowd let him know but damage done.
The one good aspect is the mic'd up officials and when a decision is being arrived at it is talked through wrt the rules and why it is the level of decision it is e.g. card or not, colour of card etc.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Fair points. If you’re Scottish
But yes, the mic’d up VAR was the main instigator of this article.
posted on 11/9/23
The worst bit about rugby is whiney beech football fans trying to export their whiney beech moaning to it.
posted on 11/9/23
Rugby VAR is applied in a way that keeps the players and the people in the stadium informed.
In footy its just for the people watching on TV.
posted on 11/9/23
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 8 hours ago
The worst bit about rugby is whiney beech football fans trying to export their whiney beech moaning to it.
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posted on 11/9/23
Is this a joke? Rugby Union is decided by refereeing decisions like no other game I know. And here's a secret - before the refs were miked up - no one, but no one, could work out why half the decisions were being given. My son played a lot of rugby and is qualified as a referee. Even he doesn't know whats goig on hlaf the time. Rugby League is much better, but then the RL rules are a bit more rigid.
posted on 11/9/23
comment by Kamikaze Blue (U7450)
posted 13 minutes ago
Is this a joke? Rugby Union is decided by refereeing decisions like no other game I know. And here's a secret - before the refs were miked up - no one, but no one, could work out why half the decisions were being given.
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I thought it was obvious: a worldwide conspiracy to favour the Welsh and the Kiwis orchestrated by a dark, secret cabal known as the Sheeperati.
posted on 11/9/23
whats goig on hlaf the time
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If he gets as sloshed as you in the mornings it’s no wonder why.
posted on 11/9/23
Var has been terrible at the rugby. The Chilean bloke did exactly the same as Curry but he got a yellow rather than a red. Then they didn't bother reviewing the clear red by the south african bloke yesterday.
Ref in the Wales game was hopeless, desperate not to give any yellows to the Welsh.
It's good that they're micced up and explain things but it's no better at getting things right than at the football World cup.
posted on 11/9/23
2 G's, an L and an F. Must be Welsh.
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