Congratulations QRU on your bullshit rule not to play extra time.
Cheers for costing Brothers another chance at a Premier Colts title.
Believe it's and irb rule sorry mate. Will double check for you.
Congratulations QRU on your bullshit rule not to play extra time.
Cheers for costing Brothers another chance at a Premier Colts title.
The team who cause the uncontested scrums need to drop a player. It's part of the laws.Can someone in the know (rugbyreg or Scott Allen) please clarify why uni had to go to 14 when all their front rowers were injured? I found it rather puzzling..
And if only the week kneed QRU would actually stand by this for teams that start without contested srums I would be happy, as I said before the Filth have a team in friday night finals again, and said team hasn't had a contested scrum in lat few years to my knowledge!!The team who cause the uncontested scrums need to drop a player. It's part of the laws.
Lads - you are all being a bit heavy handed towards the QRU - Refabbit will have your posts deleted for questioning those in authority!!!
Looks to me that you complaints should be directed to the IRB not the QRU.
And as for the Friday night Filth not packing a contested scrum in 3 years - that is a joke - how they can qualify for finals footy is just outrageous.
Mind you there weren't too many contested scrums in the 4th grade GF on Saturday. I think that was Souths calling uncontested from the kick off yet they had two 130kg guys sitting on the bench!!!
As for Brothers Colts missing out again due to a draw - didn't the Breakers Colts draw a couple of GFs going back a few years (Lost one /Won one).
Maybe if they can't play extra time then maybe they need to come back the following weekend for a grand final replay or worse award a shared premiership. I think it would be great to be involved in a replay - great theatre!!
Clubland - with a 43-0 result I really don't think it would have changed the result in 4th grade, but please accept my apologies for casting aspersions at the Magpies.
Can't agree TBH, I say ok if you can't dield front rowers in lower grades, it is fair enough, but you can't win a game if you cannot play to the laws. As I said Filth friday night team have not put down a contested srum that I have heard of in a couple of years, and can still win a comp?? I agree some of these teams are social/fun teams, but there fore they wouldn't mind not getting points. And I have seen it happen in other grades to often, and consider it pretty poor of QRU to allow this to carry on!!I think criticizing teams from any club lower grades for not having a contested scrum is a bit unfair.
Safety is the first priority in scrums and the fact is once it gets down to those 3rd/4th/Friday night comps the number of trained front rowers is going to diminish. If we're talking specifically about the teams mentioned above then i'd think it would be even more of an issue at clubs like Easts and Brothers who haven't been as strong throughout the lower grades recently.
Its been a while since I've seen a team deliberately leave front rowers out of a team in order to gain an advantage from going uncontested.
Clubland further to your crack at the Easts 4th grade side going uncontested on Saturday - with the second row Easts had in 4th grade on Saturday it would have been to their advantage if they had been able to piece together a front row.
You can't just front up with a front row for the final these guys have to play the number of requisite games throughout the season in 4th grade to qualify for finals footy. If you have issues up the grades with the front row players that can leave things pretty short for front rowers in the lower grades.
Easts lost Kimmince & Paraka for most of the season and lost the two Parker brothers at the end of 2013, so that's 4 front row options that Easts had to find replacements for without even taking into account what happened in the lower grades. So unfortunately throughout the course of the year there wouldn't have been too many front rowers left once you got down the 4th (effectively 6th) grade at Tigerland this year.
So I retract my dig (which is what it was) earlier today about the Friday Night Filth side - at least they are out there having a run around and staying involved in the game/their club and if the scrums aren't contested in the lower grades does it really matter.
So I agree with the Big Dog on his comments earlier today.
Have you ever had a go controlling the game yourself TT ??? Maybe if more people with such intricate knowledge of law and comp rules like yourself got involved rather than those who were hopeless players so took up the whistle the pool of refs would be a lot stronger.Seriously I think a bigger issue for the QRU is the standard of refereeing across the board rather than whether a 4th or 5th grade side goes to uncontested scrums from the kick off.