Better Rugby Rules

Yellow for hapless untalented England. 4 English yellow cards. Maybe this is the first step to 13 man rugby union. (ha!)

1. Mears (killing the ball)
2. Haskell (elbowing)
3. Flood (high tackle)
4. Rees (killing the ball)

82,000 people paid money to see this international rugby union piece of junk. I should have stayed in bed rather than drag my tired body out at 3.30 am. The first 40 minutes saw 30 penalties, can you believe it! Jimmy Cowan (ABs half back) was screaming for the advantage to be played, but it doesn’t come under the northern breakdown ELVs which require rules to be applied very strictly.

If you want to watch the game, dont, see it on the 2 minute news clip within the late night news, because that’s all the rugby that there was. The IRB rule makers must be rapped with the new ELVs, a whistle blowing musical. If that game was played 30 years ago the players would have sorted the slow ball out with genuine rugby rucking, that’s why we had rucking for team strategies like this. England had no choice but to play it this way, smashed in the press all week after the Aussie game, what else could they do, they only game plan was to niggle and hinder the All Blacks. Bring back rucking.

Cant comment much further, no rugby was played to say much about anything.

Well done ABs, 5 weeks of winning rugby.

NOTE: Please Wayne Smith sign with someone else. The ABs back line needs someone who can get the players to run from depth at pace, and switch between your beloved flat line attack and a deep attack at will. Also maybe get the fatties out of the back line attack, this would also be a great plus !

UPDATE1:The best back line in the last 10 years has been the Aussies (Larkam, Mortlock, Geteau, Latham). This Aussie backline was born from the Brumbies side that consistently out did them selves in the super 14, and out did other international backlines. The passing, tactics, change of attack was fantastic, they could switch from a deep running attack to a flat line attack at will, do any move that existed in back play and defend as good as anyone. In the same time frame ABs best backline line mind was Andrew Merhtens, unfortunately he was playing when Wayne Smith was around and stunted his creativity, so Henry if you want a back coach give either Andrew a call, or call the master mind behind the Brumbies (I think from my research that is Pat Howard).

Or maybe you can see what every one else can, is that you really need to two forward coaches, one for scrums and lineouts and another for forwards running in the backline, in that case I would call Sean Fitzpatrick as your forward back line coach as he spent plenty of time on the wing !

UPDATE2: Bugger ! Smithy stays loyal: I’m sticking with the ABs