Rugby Gold???

muincav

Hi all-

Just want to know if I am the only person watchin TG4 Rugby Gold series who believes that the channel has picked the worst games possible?
I dont think I have watched all the games shown, but the games I have seen Ireland have lost them all and they were very very bad games....dont get me wrong I was at a lot of those games, but I was at a lot of cracking matches in the eighties some of which we lost-but we lost with one hell of an Irish fight!
so maybe its time for TG4 to have at what they are showing!

Thats that off my chest......:mad:

Jackz

Ireland lost alot of games.

Sandwich

I dont think they a picking them particularly. They are just proceeding in chronological order rather than match merit.

Funkstard

Those matches are great. Fans invading the pitch and the players basically punching them back off it.

Anyone know why they got rid of lifting in the lineouts? Or was it that they only started doing it recently?

marco_polo

Funkstard wrote: »

Those matches are great. Fans invading the pitch and the players basically punching them back off it.

Anyone know why they got rid of lifting in the lineouts? Or was it that they only started doing it recently?

They made it legal a about a decade ago or so, as I recall basically because everyone was doing it anyway and it was becoming too difficult for referees to police.

Tim Robbins

Funkstard wrote: »

Those matches are great. Fans invading the pitch and the players basically punching them back off it.

Anyone know why they got rid of lifting in the lineouts? Or was it that they only started doing it recently?

Lifting technically is not allowed in the lineout, the jumper must jump and the lifters are technically only supposed to be "supporting" the jumper.

EdgarAllenPoo

I thought it was still illegal but refs just ignore it, I seem to remember one of the commentators mentioning something about it at last years 6 nations.

I've watched Rugby Gold for the last three weeks and I thought the same as the OP, how many years do TG4 have the rights to?

Eoin

Yup; you can't lift, pre-grip or support below the shorts - all of which are done regularly. I think at JCT level, there's not even any supporting allowed, so it's really like the bad old days.

Imhof Tank

At the time (the 80’s) I thought the games were entertaining. However, looking back on these games now by reference to today’s standards really puts the effects of professionalism into perspective.

The lack of conditioning (compared to today) is amazing – reminded me a bit of when you see a skinny kicker in American Football as the last man back trying to tackle a bulky kick returner.

Is the game more entertaining as a result of watching bigger, more skilful guys hit harder in bigger collisions – yes

Eoin

Imhof Tank wrote: »

At the time (the 80’s) I thought the games were entertaining. However, looking back on these games now by reference to today’s standards really puts the effects of professionalism into perspective.

The lack of conditioning (compared to today) is amazing – reminded me a bit of when you see a skinny kicker in American Football as the last man back trying to tackle a bulky kick returner.

Is the game more entertaining as a result of watching bigger, more skilful guys hit harder in bigger collisions – yes

Sometimes it seems like schoolboy stuff; no order to it at all. Also, seeing the differences in sizes is something else - particularly with some of the backs we've seen over the last few years - Scott Gibbs, Rob Henderson etc.

komodosp

I thought it was still illegal but refs just ignore it

What? That's a bit dodgy isn't it? Does that mean a ref in a bad mood some day could just penalise someone for doing what they've been doing the whole time thinking it was OK?... They'd want to sort that one out...

Eoin

komodosp wrote: »

What? That's a bit dodgy isn't it? Does that mean a ref in a bad mood some day could just penalise someone for doing what they've been doing the whole time thinking it was OK?... They'd want to sort that one out...

Agreed. There are some rules that refs aren't calling, that they should (crooked feed into the scrum etc), but they should just officially allow lifting and be done with it.

Unless the ELV already covers this?

themont85

I havent seen the TG4 programmes, they did same as the ones on ESPN Classic? I found those games to be quite good