Comments on: Sapolu to quit rugby

By: Nils(Nils)

Nils(Nils) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:01:24 +0000

He had very valid points and with his childish rants ruined everything. Lawyer my foot.

By: stormer in a teacup(stormer in a teacup)

stormer in a teacup(stormer in a teacup) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:57:08 +0000

According to Supersport the IRB privately apologised to the Boks for Owens performance in the Samoa game.

By: JL1(JL1)

JL1(JL1) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:35:09 +0000

@TheTackler(TheTackler)-103: Contrary to the player’s submissions, the Judicial Officer determined that there was ‘absolutely no evidence that the referee was biased in the sense that he deliberately favoured one side or the other. To suggest that Nigel Owens is racist against Samoans is also completely inappropriate.’

By: Bludeks(Bludeks)

Bludeks(Bludeks) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:31:16 +0000

103.TheTackler

The rest of the world? You dont really mean that do you? Or are you still stumbling around in your mad hatter guise?

By: Skeppie(Skeppie)

Skeppie(Skeppie) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:15:06 +0000

@TheTackler(TheTackler)-103: Tackles, just for the record and with a pure rugby mindset, are you saying that the Ref in that game favoured the Boks...ie) his actual on field calls assisted the Boks?

By: Bouts(Bouts)

Bouts(Bouts) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:54:00 +0000

@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-104: Tackles thinks HE is the rest of the world.

By: BreakdownBoy(goodstuff)

BreakdownBoy(goodstuff) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:03:10 +0000

@TheTackler(TheTackler)-103: Good joke.

By: BreakdownBoy(goodstuff)

BreakdownBoy(goodstuff) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:02:50 +0000

Bye bye cry baby. It’s a shame, I thought samoa matured in their rugby thinking, guess I was wrong.

By: bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)

bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:34:10 +0000

@TheTackler(TheTackler)-103: New Zealand ain't the 'rest of the rugby world'...

By: TheTackler(TheTackler)

TheTackler(TheTackler) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:34:55 +0000

The rest of the rugby world share the view that Samoa were treated very badly by the ref in their encounter with the Boks.

By: Alucard(Alucard)

Alucard(Alucard) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:50:52 +0000

@J.B. Cowper(J.B. Cowper)-101: I found it funny how the Samoans complained of bias when they in fact had countless infringements not called. They had the ref in their pocket as well. A knockon in the air by them led up a few phases later to that try. But no. Whinge. Good riddance indeed. They need to sort out their act.

By: J.B. Cowper(J.B. Cowper)

J.B. Cowper(J.B. Cowper) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:27:53 +0000

Good riddance to this self-pitying bad sportsman – rugby does not need his type.

By: XV(XV)

XV(XV) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:59:29 +0000

@out wide(out wide)-53: if you follow the thread correctly you will see that I used the word 'IF'...........

By: Kobus Kitty(Kobus Kitty)

Kobus Kitty(Kobus Kitty) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:35:45 +0000

No one cares. F-uck off back to Auckland.

By: Richie_7(Richie_7)

Richie_7(Richie_7) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:35:36 +0000

@Hooker22(Hooker22)-97: Agreed. Was looking forward to the Boks giving the Aussies a snotklap and the Welsh sending the French packing - was not to be. This morning's game would have been far more interesting if SA were playing the AB's

By: Hooker22(Hooker22)

Hooker22(Hooker22) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:29:57 +0000

@Richie_7(Richie_7)-95:

Bryce Lawrence had a shocking game. The boks still should’ve won. There is no international conspiracy.

Pound for pound the All Blacks are the best sports team in the world. They should win the RWC and deserve to.

All the whining is emotional venting. We’re all guilty of it.

The IRB needs to look at the whole red car system – it ruins games as a spectacle.

The end.

By: Hooker22(Hooker22)

Hooker22(Hooker22) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:25:57 +0000

This fellow’s a qualified lawyer? Where did he get his degree, Cuba?

Surely he should know that making allegations like this opens himself up to a defamation suit?

At least if Owens sues, our Samoan centre will have free legal representation – a fool for a client.

By: Richie_7(Richie_7)

Richie_7(Richie_7) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:24:43 +0000

Bryce Lawrence is said to be coming to South Africa to head up a “The Rules of Rugby” conference. Few people on this site should attend

By: HongKongSlong(HongKongSlong)

HongKongSlong(HongKongSlong) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 06:42:19 +0000

@TheTackler(TheTackler)-93: Every world cup is said to be the best ever. This world cup should have gone to Japan. 95 was comfortably the best world cup ever.

By: TheTackler(TheTackler)

TheTackler(TheTackler) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 06:32:13 +0000

@Mills_is_kak(p0ppa69)-87: Every venue was as near as dammit a total sell-out. Not a skerrick of match-fixing (seeing that any such activity is a private arrangement with crooked players in teams anyway and not IRB or NZRU). Bryce called it like he saw it — can’t ask for more than that. Weather is great — after all, it’s late winter/early temperate spring and it’s the rainy season — ideal for rugby! Best lamb and seafood and flat white coffee on earth — and NO “food poisoning”! Mike Miller, IRB boss, says its the “best RWC ever” — eclipsing the 1995 SA show.