This is Christchurch's skyline as of yesterday morning. Note the various cranes.
She'll be beautiful again. Mark my words.
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Rugby x A Ruined City
This is Christchurch's skyline as of yesterday morning. Note the various cranes.
She'll be beautiful again. Mark my words.
McCaw flips the bird to Reason.
As a Cantabrian I was outraged as I read an opinion post by "rugby journalist" Mark Reason on Stuff.co.nz earlier this week. Reason labelled McCaw and the Crusaders cheats. Going so far as to hope that we lost our game yesterday night.
What irked me even more was the fact our very own paper had the nerve to run the atrocious attack.
I accept it is an opinion post; Reason is, of course, entitled to that opinion. But an attack to that level was uncalled for and unfounded. And most certainly not one that should have been put to print in our local newspaper. It was utterly distasteful and infuriating to read at 8am in the morning.
We toe the line, yes. But when our captain has apparently (and I do not doubt this) scored 100% on a referee test, I think it's fair to say he knows what he can get away with. Every team tests the waters with each ref, interpretations vary from human to human. This is a fair call. But cheating and intimidating the ref? No. Every captain is entitled to talk to the ref to understand calls or have a whinge, and each and every team's captain does it. This isn't a one way street. What McCaw and the Crusaders do are exactly the same things that every other team in the competition and world do.
To single one man, one team out? I think somebody is a little butthurt.
So it gives me great pleasure to say that we beat the Bulls 28 - 13; with McCaw putting on a man of the match, bird flipping performance.
A stunning game from the Crusaders, not so much from the Bulls who outscored us two tries to one. But a lack of discipline cost them and Carter cashed in.
Bring on the Chiefs and the semi finals!
What irked me even more was the fact our very own paper had the nerve to run the atrocious attack.
I accept it is an opinion post; Reason is, of course, entitled to that opinion. But an attack to that level was uncalled for and unfounded. And most certainly not one that should have been put to print in our local newspaper. It was utterly distasteful and infuriating to read at 8am in the morning.
We toe the line, yes. But when our captain has apparently (and I do not doubt this) scored 100% on a referee test, I think it's fair to say he knows what he can get away with. Every team tests the waters with each ref, interpretations vary from human to human. This is a fair call. But cheating and intimidating the ref? No. Every captain is entitled to talk to the ref to understand calls or have a whinge, and each and every team's captain does it. This isn't a one way street. What McCaw and the Crusaders do are exactly the same things that every other team in the competition and world do.
To single one man, one team out? I think somebody is a little butthurt.
So it gives me great pleasure to say that we beat the Bulls 28 - 13; with McCaw putting on a man of the match, bird flipping performance.
A stunning game from the Crusaders, not so much from the Bulls who outscored us two tries to one. But a lack of discipline cost them and Carter cashed in.
Bring on the Chiefs and the semi finals!
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