Pot Calling The Kettle All Blacks

toomevara

Tuquiri banned for five matches following an (admittedly dangerous) tackle on Richie McCaw. The Kiwis up in arms displaying righteous indignation, Henry jumping up and down stamping his feet as only he can. No equivocation or hypocrisy when it happens to one of his players unlike their craven and unsportsmanlike reaction to 'that' O'Driscoll assault, oops sorry 'tackle'. Truly they live in an alternate rugby universe....

RuggieBear

lol


Shocking tackle tho. lucky it's only five matches

Nukem

Anyone got any clip links by any chance

RuggieBear

Nukem wrote:

Anyone got any clip links by any chance

just a typical spear tackle in open play. McCaw was dazed.

Sangre

I don't think there was anything malicious about it. I think it turned into a spear because McCaw twisted around looking for the ball in mid-air. I think Taquiri was only trying to drive him into the ground.

Nasty looking landing though, glad he wasn't injured.

toomevara

Sangre wrote:

Nasty looking landing though, glad he wasn't injured.

Indeed it was, but really there was nothing malicious in it and definitely no intent (even McCaw, to his great credit, said so). A five match ban is exremely harsh and, imo unwarranted but that's what Henry and Co. pushed for and as we know, when it comes to the games administration, what those boys want, they get.

Chucky the tree

didnt D'Arcy spear tackle someone on the Lions tour in one of the warm up matches?

Amazotheamazing

Chucky the tree wrote:

didnt D'Arcy spear tackle someone on the Lions tour in one of the warm up matches?

Yep, Tikopi (?) I think.

Chucky the tree

Tom, how come you havent mounted your soap box about the one?

daveirl

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Here are two screenshots of it. Ouch!

RuggieBear

http://www.setanta.com/portal/article/rugby?open&articleid=ed9cab932db3d640802571d1004ce419

In an hilarious development, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark has decided to get involved in the fall-out from the All Blacks' Tri-Nations clash with Australia on Saturday.

Richie McCaw came in for some particularly rough treatment during the Kiwis' 34-27 victory in Auckland, and, on Sunday, Wallaby winger Lote Tuqiri was banned until November 2 for his 'spear' tackle on the New Zealand skipper.

It appeared that Tuqiri's suspension would be the end of the matter, but now Prime Minister Clark has stirred things up again.

"I thought it was absolutely appalling," she fumed on a New Zealand radio station. "We witnessed several acts of assault against the All Blacks captain and it was very, very ugly to see.

"One hesitates as just someone in the stand to voice an opinion, but certainly I felt someone should have been sent off."

McCaw is likely to be rested for New Zealand's Tri-Nations encounter with South Africa this weekend.

Elsewhere, prop Carl Hayman is definitely out of the game in Pretoria after suffering a concussion in the win over the Wallabies.

toomevara

RuggieBear wrote:

Prime Minister Clark has stirred things up again.

"I thought it was absolutely appalling," she fumed on a New Zealand radio station. "We witnessed several acts of assault against the All Blacks captain and it was very, very ugly to see.

"One hesitates as just someone in the stand to voice an opinion, but certainly I felt someone should have been sent off."

Dear God, this really is through the looking glass stuff, even for the one-eyed kiwi rugby-mafia. Can we please have an edict passed by the UN expressely forbidding politicians from jumping on sport controversy bandwagons, under pain of complete (live) dismemberment.

At times like this I usually take refuge in cricket, but even that has been denied me. Honestly, professional sport, what is the bleedin' point anymore?

Mad Finn

RuggieBear wrote:

http://www.setanta.com/portal/article/rugby?open&articleid=ed9cab932db3d640802571d1004ce419

In an hilarious development, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark has decided to get involved in the fall-out from the All Blacks' Tri-Nations clash with Australia on Saturday.

Yowza, they sure must have some tall ugly trees in New Zealand. When God was giving out looks it would appear that Helen Clarke and Tana Umaga were nowhere near the front of the queue.

I reckon ET was a New Zealander.

Why?

Because he looks like one.

I'll bet he would have made a demon scrum half though.

golden

So its ok for the Kiwis to Spear Tackle and not anybody else bit hypricritical. Personally think that they should ban spear tackle but if one team spear tackles an opponent surely they should expect the same treatment.

pucan

Whatever ye guys have heard about it, its been 10 times worse over here. In fairness to tuquiri i think it was McCaw reaching backwards for the ball that turning it into a spear. And its a 10 week ban so lote will only miss the springboks game as he was being rested by the Waratahs until the november tour. Oh and he will miss the first mid-week game of that tour, so not a bad outcome for him.
Not wanting to dredge this up again but to compare:
McCaw had the ball , BOD didn't and play had moved 20-30 yards away.
McCaw was tackled by 1 man, BOD by 2.
McCaw was down for 2mins, BOD for 8months.

McCaw's game is based on aggression and for the aussies to give as good as they got, for a change, obviously unnerved the kiwis. But in fairness to them, the players weren't complaining really, it was people off the pitch whinging about "assault" and "criminal".
Phil Waughs shoulders have been nicknamed "sledge" and "hammer" after the battering he gave McCaw.

Trojan

Behave.

pucan

Trojan wrote:

Behave.

What?

RuggieBear

not you. don't worry.:)