Tuesday, March 31st, 2009...1:48 pm

ELVs:NZRU CEO Tew doesnt get it, and hes in charge, da!

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NZRU CEO Tew just doesnt get it !

Source: Tackle zone remains game’s spaghetti junction  – Martin Davidson

…”Rugby’s spaghetti junction remains an unresolved mess despite ongoing efforts by administrators to clean up the adjudication of the breakdown area.Officials are still grappling to find a universal answer to clean up the tackle zone to ensure a fair contest for the ball at the breakdown.”…

…”Southern hemisphere nations have trialled new refereeing sanctions, with free kicks used to speed up the game.However, other than France and Scotland, northern hemisphere nations have not even bothered to road test such sanctions and they continue to argue offences at the breakdown constitute a full arm penalty despite the fact frequent stoppages are a blight on the game“…[BLOG: Both stiff and bent arm penalities requires the game to stop, yet rucking does not]

COMMENTS:The breakdown has two forms of policing, the first by the referees the other by the players. The method applied by the referrers has failed. Why: they dont see all, they are too slow to react and when they do react it requires the game to stop, the second method is by the players and its ‘rucking’. Rucking has worked tremendously well. Yet the mothers of little school boy Johny must be appeased. Wake up Mr TEW there is only one answer and the fact as a New Zealander you dont see this argument is a dam disgrace, it provides evidence that you dont understand the game that you lead. Please move aside. Laurie Mains please apply for the NZRU CEO job, thanks !

UPDATE1:Recently Mr Tews said the statistics support his case, well statistics can be molded any way you like to get any story you like, the way to design rugby is the same way an artist would design a canvas, gut instinct, feel, mood, with the lead from your design concepts. Tew does not have the ‘eye’ for great rugby design, I suggest you check out the “Heros of this Blog’ to see who does! One the great things rugby has in its concept is ‘self rule’,  that is push that player onside, ruck players infringing (used to be), why you ask, because its a CONTACT sport, you cant have refs policing all aspects of the physical contests for possession (unless its dangerous), the physical contest must be sorted out physically. The PC world has fooked this up, and people like Mr Tew cant see that as they see money first and rugby concept second.

Last Point: Thank god for the Six Nations having large balls, and slowing down the destruction of traditional rugby union. In the last year mauls, long lineouts and back play have been diminished to near nothing of what they used to be.



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