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Yeah, yellow cards can really ruin games… very tricky one though as players are still getting away with being offside too much, also coming in from the side & spoiling the ball, very frustrating to watch.
Some replays are a real joke, showing a replay 3 or 4 times, when it was very obvious to tell the first time what had happened, also why go back so many phases to check something ? Christ, there’s enough stoppages in rugby already.
Without doubt the Barnes 2007 thing is a media driven thing, most NZ rugby supporters wouldn’t be holding onto that type of stuff, would just be a waste of energy & time, I hardly take any notice of the sports media, unless it’s a good common sense article etc.
One of the things that annoys me is when a player is say inside his own half & kicks a long ball downfield with an excellent weight & it stays within the dead ball line by half a metre, then the opposition player places his foot over the dead ball line, picks up the pill & play has to go all the way back, in some cases 70 metres or more, same when a player punts the ball miles downfield close to the touch line & again the opposition player places his foot over the line… ridiculous bloody rule, as a player has put in a long accurate or well weighted kick & is been bloody punished for it, plus it’s a time waster with players having to go back from where the ball was kicked.