Third Test (DECIDER!) - ENG v NZ (Sat 14th 1 PM GMT/Sun 15th 12AM AEST / 2AM NZDT)

[The Clan]

It wasn't a try spud..

Downward pressure on the ball constitutes a try!

 

[Harrigan]

That's one frame :lol:

It was never a try because he never had control initially. Fingertip control only really comes into it when you already have the ball in hand going down to ground.

 

[miguel de cervantes]

yeah but the end of the ball was rising and in turn lifting his finger - ie the ball was imparting more upward pressure on his finger than his finger was downward pressure on the ball. I wish it were a try, but there is no way I want to see tries like that (and Ben Barba's ludicrous "try") awarded.

 

[Last Week]

Lol. So desperate. 38 years and counting.

 

[deluded pom?]

I have a chronic feeling of deja vu.

 

[deluded pom?]

Lol. So desperate. 38 years and counting.

What happened in 1977?

 

[Burns]

Ah so, anyway

Teams named. NZ are the same. England have made two changes to their squad of 19. Matty Smith is named alongside Jermaine McGillvary, they replace Leroy Cudjoe and Ben Westwood.

http://therfl.co.uk/news/article/33312/england-make-two-changes-for - England

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/kiwis-league-team/news/article.cfm?c_id=342&objectid=11544611&ref=rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook - New Zealand

 

[roughyedspud]

Yeah anyway...

Anyone seen the weather for saturday?? Christ its gonna be horrible

Starts raining at 12ish..then gets worse as the day go on

 

[roughyedspud]

All that rain as me worried actually....might get called of you know..

 

[deluded pom?]

Typical fecking Lancashire weather. I'd never have a Test there again, ever.

 

[roughyedspud]

Lol..

If it does get called off do you think they'll rearrange it for sunday??

 

[Harrigan]

It won't get called off! If the rain doesn't start until 12 it's going to have to be a hell of a downpour, like biblical proportions, in the next 3 hours for that to happen.

And it can't be any worse than the build up to last Saturday either. At least Wigan is only an hour or so drive each way this time and not 4!

 

[Harrigan]

Anyway if this is anything to go by the weather won't ramp up until after the game. Can't wait for that journey back to the nice part of the country

 

[roughyedspud]

Its not just the rain tomorrow...its pissed down all night,pissing down on and off today..then all that from dinnertime tomorrow..

You know what the health & safety knobs are like..lol

 

[deluded pom?]

If it's any consolation 'spud we've hardly had a drop of rain all week

 

[kiwileaguefan]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/league...ncapped-jermaine-mcgillvary-for-deciding-test

Disappointingly, for the second week in a row, England broke the pre-tournament agreement by not making a player available to media after their captain's run.

What the hell is McNamara doing to this team? Would expect that from the visiting team not the home team...

 

[Harrigan]

So the weather warning has been upgraded to Orange tomorrow. Most of the north will get between 50-100mm through the morning and afternoon.

Brisbane had similar when they called that off earlier in the year. Maybe there is something in this :lol:

 

[roughyedspud]

Told ya

 

[The Clan]

yeah but the end of the ball was rising and in turn lifting his finger - ie the ball was imparting more upward pressure on his finger than his finger was downward pressure on the ball. I wish it were a try, but there is no way I want to see tries like that (and Ben Barba's ludicrous "try") awarded.

Whaaaat?

Let me make it simple for you,
The ball is on the ground
Ryan Hall puts downward pressure on the ball
TRY!

All the bollocks about the coefficient of restitution dictating the upwards motion of the ball therefore negating what your very eyes are seeing right in front of you is claptrap!

As Jim Garrison said in his summing up of the JFK trial,

"Theoretical physics can also prove that an elephant can hang off a cliff with its tail tied to a daisy! But use your eyes, ..."

There's no law in the book that governs how much downward pressure a player must apply or that it can't be pressure from one finger.

Once again the ball is over the try line and in contact with the ground
Hall puts downward pressure on the ball
At that very instant it's a try, end of, no more need for deliberation or interpretation.
No need for Arlen Specter in the guise of one or both of the Sutton bandits to formulate a 'magic bullet theory' .

It's a try!

Only it couldn't be could it because if it's a try Australia get knocked out and we can't have that can we!

 

[Fast Eddie]

Whaaaat?

Let me make it simple for you,
The ball is on the ground
Ryan Hall puts downward pressure on the ball
TRY!

All the bollocks about the coefficient of restitution dictating the upwards motion of the ball therefore negating what your very eyes are seeing right in front of you is claptrap!

As Jim Garrison said in his summing up of the JFK trial,

"Theoretical physics can also prove that an elephant can hang off a cliff with its tail tied to a daisy! But use your eyes, ..."

There's no law in the book that governs how much downward pressure a player must apply or that it can't be pressure from one finger.

Once again the ball is over the try line and in contact with the ground
Hall puts downward pressure on the ball
At that very instant it's a try, end of, no more need for deliberation or interpretation.
No need for Arlen Specter in the guise of one or both of the Sutton bandits to formulate a 'magic bullet theory' .

It's a try!

Only it couldn't be could it because if it's a try Australia get knocked out and we can't have that can we!

Like I said

Winners are grinners and you can please yourself