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Where, on this forum at least, has anyone excused Labuschagne?

And yet people here think you mate will know or care who Holloway or Donaldson or Faesslar are? An assistant coach resigning as the team board for the RWC is news. To think you won’t or shouldn’t get questions on it is ridiculous. Finding out that one of the biggest names on the team won’t...

OK....this is just bullshit. GAME 1 3mins: Tate gets smashed by Barrett from the line-out on the Wallaby try line, fumbles the ball and Shannon Frizell scores the try. TMO double checks to ensure Barrett was onside but it's pretty easy and clear-cut to call the try. 7mins: Marika looks to have...

Did we know a week ago that QC (Quade Cooper) wasn’t taking EJ (Eddie Jones) calls? That his assistant coach was going to quit? There are questions hanging over this team and the way it is preparing for the RWC and the results to date vs what Eddie Jones said they would so. He’s getting ‘angry’ at journalists asking about...

Questions about the left-field selections and non-selections of players are laughable? Questions about whether he understood why people don't believe this is the team to win are laughable? Getting upset about being asked the difference between usual Tests and knock-out World Cup games or asked...

Except it's all just theatre. The media are asking reasonable questions. Every rugby commentator and journo knows that this squad is highly unusual and unorthodox from a number of different angles. Eddie is trying to create a siege mentality within the squad. No-one like us. Everyone thinks you...

Except I did....twice..

Ahhhhh....so it's only the Pacific Island nations whose claims of bias are bullshit? Yeah OK....I think I've heard enough :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

OK....I'm not sure that I have but l do find that I have changed my mind on any number of things as I grow older. I would say that the ABs get a bias when playing against Tier 2 teams. I also think that the perceived dominant team can often get a bias in certain calls. However, from what I've...

You've claimed a couple of times that mitigation was ignored but you are wrong. From World Rugby's statement on their website: "The Committee noted that the offence carries a mandatory mid-range sanction (six matches) and having considered the mitigating factors reduced the sanction by the...

How or why doesn't matter. 10 weeks is how it was/is being reported in direct contradiction to your statement. I'm not addressing the Labuschagne incident because 1. I haven't seen it and 2. because this isn't the first instance of Pacific Island players and/or teams being dealt with unfairly...

Except almost every story reporting on this clear lack of consistency has reported 10-weeks. So you’re already wrong on that. Again, your denial that prejudice and bias exists only serves to keep perpetuating it. You deny it when it happens, you deny it when the victims of it tell you it...

It was 10 weeks downgraded to 5. So they are saying that they think for that action, Moala SHOULD get 10 but mitigating factors, clean history etc etc In Farrells case, they think the action not only deserved to go unpunished, they think the original red card was wrong! Again, you want to...

The comparison isn't between their actions - although one might argue that the outcome of Farrell's tackle was objectively 'far worse.' He had direct contact to the head with his shoulder and Basham failed his HIA. But the comparison is between the punishments that got handed out. Are you...

Prejudice is not equal to racism. But saying it is more about the money only reinforces the prejudices and biases that exist because who has less money? The poorer Pacific Island teams, the tier two teams. People here may think this whole prejudice and bias doesn't exist but plenty of people...

Can you quote where I said the judiciary is racist? I’ll quote myself “The Pacific Island teams have often been penalised, carded and suspended….” So again - no. YOU were the one decided to narrow it down to just the judiciary. I also never called them racist. I have no doubts there are...

No. You don’t get to just define the narrow terms and the ways in which prejudice can solely be defined. Quite the colonialist way of thinking there…lol edit: oh the irony of responding to this post with the ‘I see nothing’ emoji

Yes I have. You just choose to ignore it. Which is both your prerogative and, completely unsurprising.

I’m saying there is a prejudice against pacific island players. I’ve seen it - and experienced it - even in the lower grades of a number of sports.