Comments on: How to start a fight in a rugby match

By: KAP

KAP — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:27:27 +0000

I’m a south African and burger should be ban for life its
not the first time he’s done this and it won’t be the last.

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Johann T — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:14:38 +0000

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By: Doyler

Doyler — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:44:58 +0000

When you play South Africa you have to expect and be prepared for
their bullying tactics. I am Irish and I really love it when we
play them, I think it is a bigger physical test than playing any
other international side. With all the skill in the world on your
side you will always be pulled down into a war of attrition when
playing the Boks, they play hard and they try to intimidate – all
you can do is front up to it, give it straight back. I don’t blame
Mike Phillips for getting up off the ground and having a go, that’s
what he had to do, you can’t allow the boks to get away with their
bullying and you also can’t hide behind the ref and look for him to
bin people just for pushing and shoving.

By: Josh Houston

Josh Houston — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:26:45 +0000

I understand why referees at the international level don’t hand out
yellows for acts such as the ones committed by Brussow. No injury
resulted in his actions and he didn’t commit one of the cardinal
sins (eye gouging, kicking/stomping or punching). Giving a yellow
changes the match and no referee wants to have that on their
conscience when the card can be questioned. Simon Shaw caused an
injury by dropping all of his weight on poor Fouris DuPreez with
his knees. And don’t suggest it was incidental, Shaw is 35 and well
seasoned. He knew exactly what he was doing. In a sport where
there’s a great deal of contact, you have to allow a few dust ups
hear and there. It happens in American football all the time. Hell,
they let guys fight in hockey. None of these sports have a shortage
of youth players and I seriously doubt a few harmless incidents is
going to affect youth rugby.

By: Vic

Vic — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:22:57 +0000

i never heard of a yellow card strangling a match, but certainly too many penalties sucks ass.

By: TheColonel

TheColonel — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:55:33 +0000

I’ll have to say that although the throw to the ground was out of
line, that the fall itself looked precariously like ‘football
acting’. The South Africans have always been a little rough around
the edges, and I don’t think that’s a secret. In some of the
articles I have read, there seems to be a fine line between the ref
‘strangling’ the game by calling it too tightly, and doing just
enough to keep the thugs in their cage.

By: Vic

Vic — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:48:07 +0000

Ooof. Some passionate comments on youtube for this video. I had to remove some (racist, offensive, etc..).

By: Vic

Vic — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:51:05 +0000

As a Canadian expat in America, I feel your pain. Even now I am watching the live matches on mediazone.com. $100 USD per year for most internationals live and on demand. Hard to beat that.

By: Von Allan

Von Allan — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:35:03 +0000

While I never excuse illegal behaviour during a game, I would still
love to see the match. Living in Canada means that top level rugby
is something I’m pretty much locked out of (unless, of course, I
want to go via pay per view or some such). It’s been a frustrating
experience to know that the Lions South African tour is “out there”
and yet be only able to follow it in bits and pieces through blogs
and newspaper websites. A very good case in point was the first
Lions/Springboks Test – while that game was being aired live
overseas, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) chose to air
an all day special on the growth of grass roots soccer (football)
in Canada. This special (called Soccer Day in Canada) featured
children and amateurs playing the game and I’m all for that. But a
truly world class rugby game was taking place at the same time and
I would have much preferred to watch that then SDiC. All that said,
I dearly hope to see the three Lions/Springboks games in their
entirety at some point. Rugby is a beautiful game and I’d rather
trust the intelligence of North American fans to realize that a
badly officiated game is just that – one badly officiated game. It
doesn’t tarnish the entire sport.