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Wottie wrote:Any update after the game in the clubhouse about JJ? That looked really nasty.
Hil wrote:Wottie wrote:Any update after the game in the clubhouse about JJ? That looked really nasty.
He was in the bar after the game. Said was feeling OK but didn't remember much about it but had definitely been knocked out cold.
jodo wrote:Can't see how we can criticise our attacking strategy when Zebre were miles offside at practically every breakdown. How can you expect the backs to get anything going when there's someone in there face immediately when you get the ball.
Seems to be some criticism of our kicking game but I think it's been pretty well executed this season. The chase is good and we're either contesting the ball or taking man and ball.
biffer wrote:Doedin in
Aw michty me we were pishypoo
Shocker.
Wottie wrote:Got to love this guy!
“I will have to watch it again, but it’s hard to play any type of rugby when the game is, in my opinion, poorly officiated,” said Cockerill.
“When [Dougie] Fife runs 50-metres and the guy is then offside he has to go to the bin. We’ve had some really, really bad calls in the last four weeks.”
“This week there seemed to be no offside line, for the competition to have any credibility they have to sort out the officiating because I have never encountered anything like it in anything else I have coached.”
“We can all see it. We kicked the penalty to go in front then the prop is two metres offside from the restart – that’s a scrum back to us, that’s a law of the game, so why is it just ignored? It is a pretty important point in the game – why would you ignore that? Ring Greg Garner [Elite Referee Manager for the PRO14] and ask why important parts of this game were ignored. I can see it, you can see it, everyone lese can see it – but the really important person who is stood a metre away chooses to ignore it. There has to be consistency and it has to be fair.
Asked if there should be referees from neutral countries, Cockerill replied: “I don’t care, they just have to do their job properly. But will he be accountable for that performance? My players will be, I will be, will he be?”
Friday Knight Lights wrote:To be fair we've had the Bradley total rugby experience, it doesn't work really. Zebre will concede too many points and find themselves at the bottom of their group.
Friday Knight Lights wrote:To be fair we've had the Bradley total rugby experience, it doesn't work really. Zebre will concede too many points and find themselves at the bottom of their group.
macdone wrote:Friday Knight Lights wrote:To be fair we've had the Bradley total rugby experience, it doesn't work really. Zebre will concede too many points and find themselves at the bottom of their group.
Agreed, but a similar style has won the last 3 titles under Townsend, Lam and Pivac.
Friday Knight Lights wrote:To be fair we've had the Bradley total rugby experience, it doesn't work really. Zebre will concede too many points and find themselves at the bottom of their group.
germain wrote:Friday Knight Lights wrote:To be fair we've had the Bradley total rugby experience, it doesn't work really. Zebre will concede too many points and find themselves at the bottom of their group.
We've had the Neil Back experience and it was awful. But Bradley's rugby was sometimes so exhilarating and brilliant. I really wish him to achieve something great at Zebre.
Friday Knight Lights wrote:We still lost more often than won, though. The same will happen with Zebre.
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