Waratahs v Crusaders, round 15, Saturday 23 May @ Homebush

[I like to watch]

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We can only be grateful that he wasn't the referee - we would have been reduced to 11 players, had a couple of penalty tries against us and been on the end of a penalty count resembling a Year 10 boy refereeing a 15s game involving his own school.

Scarred by too many trips to Bathurst to watch Schoolboy Rugby?

 

[cyclopath]

A few would mean more than one....

Yeah, it was only one.
Well, 2, if you count Kafer.

 

[fatprop]

Nah, I just love Kafer's whining. It just means the Tahs are doing well.

We spent years with his snide remarks about 3 year plans, now, well, every childlike whinge he throws out makes me feel warm inside

 

[Brumby Runner]

I thought that van der Westhuizen had a fabulous game in very difficult conditions. Both teams were trying to hit as hard as they could and there were a lot of times he could have lost it by either being too lenient or too strict. Got it pretty right I thought. He's one for the future, I think.

He is a standout in what has been a pretty poor lot of officials. Pity he only seems to get the odd game in the centre.

 

[cyclopath]

Nah, I just love Kafer's whining. It just means the Tahs are doing well.

We spent years with his snide remarks about 3 year plans, now, well, every childlike whinge he throws out makes me feel warm inside

He hit peak retard when he pointed out Whitelock illegally killed a Waratah maul (his words about Whitelock's entry point) then wanked supreme about what great Crusader play it was. It's one or the other, Kafe.

 

[cyclopath]

He is a standout in what has been a pretty poor lot of officials. Pity he only seems to get the odd game in the centre.

I hope he gets more. Makes others like Hoffmann and Berry look even worse!

 

[louie]

Have you ever listened to the dribble that comes out of Phil Kearns? Makes Kafer look like a genius.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

New Cantabs HB Mitchell Drummond looks to have a good pass.

 

[louie]

Cantab pack monstered. Ominous. 1991.

Cantabs side-to-side rubbish a special kind of nonsense tonight.

who coaches these guys?

"Just go side to side and their big boys will be tuckered out by the last 20."
"Um, but coach, we do it all so slowly and so far behind the gainline that they're hardly even stretched."
"Just trust the systems, moran."

What do you think of Blackadder? He's hardley taken them to the new level. I wonder how long he's got now Richie and Carter are going.

 

[Pfitzy]

First things first: anyone who didn't like that win can fuck off.

Secondly: fucking suck it Ruchie. Finally you got another ref who wasn't willing to put up with your bullshit, your whining, and your headshaking as objective assessment, and you got a card you probably should have got for an attempted trip on Hooper earlier in the game.

Yeah you're a great player, but most Kiwis don't even like you when you're not wearing black. If you don't believe me, I'll have the nurse wheel Neemia Tialata in here for a good hard choking session.

In a way I feel sorry for the Cantabs - they've chained themselves to a fucking amateur like Blackadder who has run the joint down gradually over the last few years; a bloke who didn't even have a backup for Dagg going down in warm up. Jeez organise your shit already!

Both on the other hand: belted them. FUCKING. BELTED. THEM. And the whining from across the ditch, and from Kafer (thanks @fatprop - summed my feelings up perfectly) is music to my ears. "Oh sir!" they said "what about the tackles those big rough Aussies are putting on us?!!"

To quote the great Tana Umaga: utz not tuddlywunks!

If that was someone like Dominic Bird or Jordan Taufua putting that shit on, Kiwis would be going the thrashwank about how good their "hard men" are at the "niggle".

But push McCaw out of his obstructionist channel with a decent shoulder in the back and suddenly fucking lynch mobs pop up all over Canterbury, brother-cousins and sister-wives all, ready to try and find a tree suitably tall and strong enough to string Skelton up! That it was given as a penalty is a fucking joke to start with; Todd should have been done for changing his line to obstruct Skelton, before Skelton took matters into his own hands and snotted the geriatric bloke in #7.

And you watch: if they beat us in Bledisloe, every prick in a black jersey will be saying "Thet's whut ya git for doing thet to Ruchue, bro!" like its some kind of cosmic fucking karma cycle and not two completely different competitions.

For years they've accused us of being soft, but when we finally stuck it up them, they just bitched like the bitchy little bitches they are. Its like Bitchy McBitchington and the Bitches bitched their bitchy way to Bitchville.

FFS.

 

[Pfitzy]

While we're all here and paying attention to my brilliance: Dave Dennis was a fucking monster last night too. While Skelton was off doing the niggle, Dave was busting fucking heads with big hits on ball carriers, massive cleanouts, and the sort of general arsekickery you need a skipper to do.

Nominate him for blindside for the Wallabies, and let he and Fardy go head to head on destroying blokes.

Such a unit.

 

[Quick Hands]

He hit peak retard when he pointed out Whitelock illegally killed a Waratah maul (his words about Whitelock's entry point) then wanked supreme about what great Crusader play it was. It's one or the other, Kafe.

After saying that the Crusaders should have received a penalty try at the end end for exactly the same infringement.

 

[Quick Hands]

Have you ever listened to the dribble that comes out of Phil Kearns? Makes Kafer look like a genius.

But Kearns, like Marto, is the comic relief part of the Fox team. Kafer is there for game analysis - something he seems incapable of if either the Waratahs or Brumbies are involved.

 

[Pfitzy]

Kafer is there for game analysis - something he seems incapable of if either the Waratahs or Brumbies are involved.

Its definitely anal. But for the Waratahs its coming out, and the Brumbies its going in.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

What do you think of Blackadder? He's hardley taken them to the new level. I wonder how long he's got now Richie and Carter are going.

Toddy has a year to run on his contract & as disappointing as the season's been there's no way they'll fire him. Heir-apparent Matson might be more prominent next year, though, with Blackadder maybe having more a "director of rugby" type role.

 

[cyclopath]

Have you ever listened to the dribble that comes out of Phil Kearns? Makes Kafer look like a genius.

I've long said Kearns is hopeless. Does this suddenly make Kafer's drivel against the Tahs every match reasonable? No.

 

[cyclopath]

After saying that the Crusaders should have received a penalty try at the end end for exactly the same infringement.

Sure. I had no real problem with the calls at the time by the ref against the Tahs, and I agree they copped some lucky 50:50 calls too; my problem is he is supposed to call a game / provide analysis. If his analysis is to say "That was an obvious illegal entry, but what fantastic play it was" then he is missing the point.

 

[Quick Hands]

Sure. I had no real problem with the calls at the time by the ref against the Tahs, and I agree they copped some lucky 50:50 calls too; my problem is he is supposed to call a game / provide analysis. If his analysis is to say "That was an obvious illegal entry, but what fantastic play it was" then he is missing the point.

It was one of the more egregious examples of his inconsistent approach to the two teams and lack of balance in his "analysis" (and I use the term loosely)

 

[Quick Hands]

Scarred by too many trips to Bathurst to watch Schoolboy Rugby?

Although you don't have to go that far to see it.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

woah, quality tirade from Pfitzy up there although I wonder if he's logged too much time over at The Silver Frown to think all kiwis are such insufferable po-faced wankers?

I thought the biff from NSW was fine. Manhandled the cantabs. All good. Made them look very anaemic, spindly and (uh-oh) white. No answer for the sheer size and grunt of Latu, Kepu, Palu and Skelton. Then the Cantabs tell the ref that if he didnt take care of the armless ('armful!) tackles they'd "take matters into their own hands"? That's just sad.