Recent content by the plastic paddy

It hasn’t taken long to be reminded why I stopped posting on Green and Gold. See you again. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Have to add that Phil Kearns nonsense would have been out of date and offensive 30 years ago. There is absolutely zero chance that he would retain his job if he was broadcasting anywhere in Europe. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

My point was it did not come from an Irish publication. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jun/25/rugby-union-wallabies-prove-tactically-inept-against-smarter-ireland?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other This is an article from the British, not Irish, Guardian newspaper. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Cheika spends the whole game slamming the table at every decision that doesn’t go Australia’s way. That you can’t see how counter productive that is amazes me. Does he not know that there is a camera on him? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Indeed, but Ireland should have won that game, even with the mistakes by the referee, but they failed to take their chances and that was the overwhelming narrative on the Irish rugby fora at the time. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

There are ways and means of making comments about the referee, cheika’s table slamming etc is counter productive, feeds a false narrative about the quality of the officiating of the game and, most importantly, is really bad for the image of rugby union in Australia. That you have to go back to...

I am sorry if you mistook my attempts at constructive criticism for sanctimony. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

But it isn’t a problem for the rest of the world. Rugby is growing exponentially in the NH, sadly to the detriment of the game in the SH, and you just do not hear coaches moaning about the officiating in the way Cheika does. Tellingly he didn’t moan about the refs, like he now does, when he...

But rightly or wrongly the laws are the laws until such time as they are changed. Saying the law is unfair serves no purpose, it is the same for both sides. The same with complaining about lifting at restarts, until the laws change those are the laws so just get on and play to them. Sent from...

I think a factor in the struggle Australian rugby union has is the incessant and institutional complaining about the referees. It has created a narrative that the game is too complicated for people to be bothering with it. There are supporters of every side who moan about referees (wrongly for...

As I posted, objectively, people are paying a f’ck of a lot more to be entertained by NH rugby than they are to be entertained by SH rugby. What you or I, subjectivity, think is immaterial. NH rugby is considerably more popular than SH rugby. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I know Aus were on the wrong side of the result but, for a neutral, the 2003 final was an astonishingly exciting game, with one try apiece. It was a wonderful contest for the ball. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

For all the “entertainment” of super rugby the ARU haven’t actually got a pot to piss in relative to the IRFU, RFU, FFR and the English and French clubs. Bums on seats and money in the bank would tend to suggest that the “entertainment” of NH rugby is considerably more remunerative than the...

I find Super rugby about as interesting as basketball. Fantastic athletes doing fantastic things but as a blood and thunder contest for the ball, which is actually the point of rugby, contrived and boring. And, interestingly, it is not even close to NH rugby in terms of popularity and income...