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'13 WC | Group A | Australia 50-0 Ireland | Limerick

Group A: Australia v Ireland


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Joely01

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The minnows are always going to give more penalties away, Its the only real way they can get close to the bigger teams by slowing the game down as much as possible, this meaning they give away much more penalties.
Even Pat Richards at halftime said his side needed to stop giving away stupid penalties.
They don't know how to wrestle properly yet, where teams like Australia it comes as second nature.
 

marv

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And it should have been Westwood and Burgess gone against Australia but I don't remember seeing you saying that anywhere.

Bollocks man, geez you really are a moron :lol:

There was nothing in the Fiji - Ireland game worth sending off for, and if you were to argue there was the worst challenge of the night was by an Irish player on Korbin Sims :roll: You know, the blatant high shot which riled Fiji up in the first place.

I presume your talking about Brett White shotting sims with a lazy swinging arm after a few minutes, the game went for about 20 minutes normally until Fiji toatlly lost the plot and ended up with Vunicece in the bin. So, there you are, wrong again.

A call of a ball going forward when a Fiji player dropped it backwards
Call against Fiji when an English player dropped the ball cold
Call against Fiji when a Fiji player was stripped but it was called as dropping the ball cold
Fiji denied a try because Korbin Sims tackled Tomkins, who was arguably commited (not that it matters because Tomkins was no chance of stopping the try)
Ref going to video ref after already calling a no-try for Ryan Hall(It was a try but that's besides the point)

First three are Very vague there, perhaps your judgement was clouded with your Fiji hat on. They must have been such stand out calls, funny that you can't seem to remember any of the names of the players involved, or what came about from these serious events of foul play.

Lets face it, the only calls of contention were Fiji's opening try, which I agree Sims was commited, but the fact he took the chance away from Tomkins was why it was disallowed.

You might suggest he had "no chance" but only someone with a pre conceived opinion would say that, so again, your wrong, and beginning to look like the one eyed biased idiot your suggesting the ref was.

Best bit is yet to come though! You put the Ryan Hall try in your list of calls, then say its a try and thats beside the point. Are you for real or are you just taking the piss and wasting my time?

Fiji have in no way had a fair go with the referees. Playing physical smash mouth league isn't illegal - That's all Fiji are guilty of, one bad spear tackle aside.

And whinging and moaning about every call, lashing out at tacklers time after time after time because they are pretty much to a man unable to take what they want to dish out.

If, and it is a big if what you say is true then Fiji should start by looking at themselves as their discipline has been poor throughout. I'm not talking spear tackles either I'm talking stupid shit which they have been hammered, rightly for IMO.

England clearly the better side but who knows what the score could have been with a few incorrect calls against Fiji removed. They likely could have gone into half time a try up and may have fared better in the second half

probably not much different, thats why all this whinging about refs is pathetic and makes you and others look like Idiots. I don't go to games to watch or whinge about ref's. I would rather look at why the game was really lost and won.

England were hot just after half time, right about then Petero and A Sims were off the pitch lo and behold Burgess ripped right through the middle for England's first try of the half.
Maybe you thought Ben Cummins should have made the tackle on Burgess to appear imartial? Anyway after that, all the BS you have talked about previously on this thread was pointless because minutes later we scored again.
 
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