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Chilla Wilson (44)
Exactly. A 7 is meant to push the envelope. Always use McCaw as the model. Guy was eternally offside - best bloody 7 there has ever been.
Yet both Cooper and Hooper (Ying and yang), (Twiddle Dee & Twiddle Dum)
Exactly. A 7 is meant to push the envelope. Always use McCaw as the model. Guy was eternally offside - best bloody 7 there has ever been.
Yet both Cooper and Hooper (Ying and yang), (Twiddle Dee & Twiddle Dum)received their most recent YC's for high above the shoulder tackles. And don't say one tackle was less deserving of a YC than the other, 'cause rules is rules.
Why?
He's still the 2nd best 7 in Australia regardless of his versatility.
Which means those who don't support the two 7s concept and feel it leaves too many deficiencies exposed elsewhere still have justification.
Perhaps more so with Timanis game on the w/e.
i think your reasoning is completely flawed.
he is the #1 flanker because he is fit and there playing. pocock is out for potentially the remainder of this year and all of next.
It's not the same as the Grey incident. The medic on the field had zero effect on the game (until Phipps pushed him and was penalised) because the ball was dead. It wasn't in play.
Grey deliberately went out of his way to played the ball so that England could not have a quick line-out - so although the ball is over the side-line it is still in play IMO. Grey got what he deserved.
So IMO there's a big difference between an official/medic going to retrieve a dead ball and Grey attacking a ball still in play.
This Phipp incident it just comical all-round, everyone was in the wrong.
It looked to me as the medic saw the ball being kicked onto the field and was going to move it on to where the scrum was. ]
Phipps did the wrong thing but I disagree with this.
The medic shouldn't be going anywhere near the ball. If the ball goes near them they should try and avoid it.
This was apparently a former test player. I don't think they can plead ignorance or they were just trying to help. It was gamesmanship in my view.
I agree that the Medic shouldn't have touched the ball and that he should have been sanctioned by World Rugby.Phipps did the wrong thing but I disagree with this.
The medic shouldn't be going anywhere near the ball. If the ball goes near them they should try and avoid it.
This was apparently a former test player. I don't think they can plead ignorance or they were just trying to help. It was gamesmanship in my view.
Nah they won't.Hooper tears around the field like a madman. It helps us more often than it hurts us, but it still hurts us too frequently.
You add in his brainless cleanout on Mike Brown in the RWC (no card at the time but a one game ban), and his punch/slap/thing on Sanchez against Argentina (again no card at the time, but dive or no dive it was reckless) and it doesn't paint a pretty picture.
He's in a similar situation to Quade I reckon. It's all OK for now, but one more card and hard questions will start to be asked.
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Meh...rubbish. If it's unsporting conduct then it's dealt with after the game with fines and so on. Not penalties that are foe professional infringements. Precedents now been set I spose......Nah, the penalty was warranted, players can't go pushing officials not involved in the game regardless of touching a ball or not.
He was penalised for "Acts contrary to good sportsmanship", misconduct or foul play, take your pick