Promise I'll be on my best behaviour. Unless we're 2pts up with 2 mins to go and....He's been pretty good. Doesn't make the headlines which is great for a ref. Best ref to come out of Ireland in quite some time. One is the plus column for ex-players becoming referees.
Now that I've said all that watch something go wrong at the weekend and him get branded the worst referee in history.
Knew there was something. Ospreys Saracens 2011. Gave ridiculous number of penalties for scrums and binned one player each side.
When is the team announced? Chieka better not pull the bullshit of naming 10 fucking people on his bench, even though he obviously already knows who hes choosing.
So it won't be on free to air. http://www.rugby.com.au/wallabies/GameDay/2014Fixtures.aspx
I think it is on 10 at 6am
Fuck me everyone's very sensitive about cheika on here. I just don'tunderstand why he names extra players when he very likely already knows who he wants to play, and if players are under an injury cloud then don't select them. if they pull through and can play, then he can change it. His naming of the team isn't final, people are always being called up or pulling out due to injury.
It really is impossible to be an avid rugby fan in Australia without a foxtel subscription. You just gotta find money in the budget for it. Thankfully i dont have kids, and if I did i'd be cancelling piano lessons.
Why are you so sensitive about how many players he names on the bench 3 days before the match? Does it really make that much difference? Or any difference at all?
Great so I can't watch the super xv cos its only on fox and now I can't watch the wallabies. No wonder rugby is losing supporters. ARU are idiots not getting a free-to-air deal.
Rugby is not losing supporters because it is not on FTA. The sad truth is that rugby is not on FTA because rugby has been losing support for years and years, gradually but inexorably.
The ARU has its faults and failings, but they cannot be blamed for this unfortunate state of affairs.
Rugby is a niche sport in this country, most sportslovers prefer a game which is easier to watch and to understand.
In a fully professional era, money, and the ratings, is all that counts.
Our game does not pull the ratings, mate, so why would anybody in their right mind want to televise it?
But the ARU don't seem to prioritised anything, they just take what they can get, whether it be making horrible fixtures, hiring poor coaches, or being unable to negotiate decent televised matches. It is all in some way related to the ARU and that is why I am directing blame at them.
How are we suppose to get supporters back if they can't even watch the games?