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Is this a case of the donkey calling the rabbit big ears?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/51550491
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/51550491
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I reckon this "statement" - whether concocted by Wyn Jones himself or team management - is aimed more directly at the Referee than the French. Mathew Carley is inexperienced at this level and this is an attempt to sow a seed of expectation in his head - a similar tactic with a top official, say Wayne Barnes, would be much more likely to backfire.
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Pretty stupid comments that could backfire heavily in my view.
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Sounds like he's :censored: himself if you ask me.
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Frankly, I’m disappointed (not surprised) that the BBC consider this to be newsworthy. Is there any front row, at whatever level, that doesn’t try to get the upper hand, by fair means or foul? Matthew Carley has to be a more than competent referee to be selected for a big 6N game and I’ve no doubt he’ll be looking for shenanigans from both front rows.
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Props always look bewildered when a penalty is given against them so I very much doubt they ever do anything untoward.
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Ah yes! The “what me, ref?” facial expression, trying to look as innocent as a choirboy!
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Ha Ha, Welsh forwards, that's "the Pot calling the Kettle" if ever you heard it, one only has to look back over the years to see the goings on of the Welsh front row.
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Matthew Carley is inexperienced at any level and with Karl Dickson on the touch line too after all the neck rolls, high tackles & off sides by Wasps last Saturday then it could be a field day for France based on incompetence. Unless Carley gets flattened and Wayne has to come on to Referee..Longshanks wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2020 12:50 pm I reckon this "statement" - whether concocted by Wyn Jones himself or team management - is aimed more directly at the Referee than the French. Mathew Carley is inexperienced at this level and this is an attempt to sow a seed of expectation in his head - a similar tactic with a top official, say Wayne Barnes, would be much more likely to backfire.
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If Carley is "inexperienced at any level", as you say, then he'd be nowhere near a 6N match! He's been appointed on merit so give him a break!AngusMcCoatup wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2020 5:54 pmMatthew Carley is inexperienced at any level and with Karl Dickson on the touch line too after all the neck rolls, high tackles & off sides by Wasps last Saturday then it could be a field day for France based on incompetence. Unless Carley gets flattened and Wayne has to come on to Referee..Longshanks wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2020 12:50 pm I reckon this "statement" - whether concocted by Wyn Jones himself or team management - is aimed more directly at the Referee than the French. Mathew Carley is inexperienced at this level and this is an attempt to sow a seed of expectation in his head - a similar tactic with a top official, say Wayne Barnes, would be much more likely to backfire.
However, rest assured that touch-judge Wayne Barnes will have a word in his ear if anything untowards happens.
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...perhaps attempting to be a little too clever here .
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Everyone cheats in the scrum........... Don't they? It's a matter of what you can get away with.
The only folk who don't know what is going on are the refs.
The only folk who don't know what is going on are the refs.
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Apologies. Every team cheats in the scrum. These days the backs are in the congratulatory party so the are complicit in deceit.
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No I am still not sure about that; they may all run in and clap the forwards on the back; whoop and holler and Remys all round. But they still have absolutely no idea what has gone on.
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