Aussie butthead gets two-Test ban
21 Oct 2012
Australian Scott Higginbotham was banned for two Tests for kneeing and headbutting All Blacks captain Richie McCaw.
The All Blacks were understandably upset that no action was taken at that crucial juncture in the game.
‘I saw the headbutt – it’s another cheap shot,’ coach Steve Hansen said. ‘He seems to get them every week but everyone seems to miss them.’
Sanzar judicial officer Jannie Lubbe, who exonerated Wallabies playmaker Quade Cooper after he kneed McCaw in the head during the Tri-Nations decider in Brisbane last year, categorised Higginbotham’s foul play as ‘low level’.
Lubbe was of the opinion that the kneeing was more ‘was more of a bump than a hit’.
The headbutt, meanwhile, ‘was reckless and not executed with much force’.
Lubbe noted McCaw was not injured and was able to play on.
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21 Oct 2012, 07:55 am
What a way to title this slithery yellow dragon. BUTTHEAD haha
21 Oct 2012, 08:08 am
“He seems to get them every week but everyone seems to miss them” – Steven Hansen.
He gets it every week, yet he still hasn’t got the message about slowing down opposition ball. He’s perfected the “roll onto opposition ball, roll away before being penalized”.
Biggest cheat in world rugby and it’s amazing that he still gets away with it.
21 Oct 2012, 09:24 am
@hendrikp-2: Give it a break – don’t think you have played rugby, or not in the modern era if you come up with this tired stuff. In the modern game it is the opensider’s role to play the way Richie does. It is the ref’s job to issue retribution for any wrongdoing not some Bakkies type enforcer.
21 Oct 2012, 09:41 am
A return to the days where the likes of Kevin Skinner ,Colin Meads, Keith Murdock, and Mark Cowboy Shaw policed any borderline play by dishing out some summary justice with flying fists
would see these cheap shot merchants crawling back into their holes
and Hendrikp your mate Bryan in front of the kicker Habana is the biggest cheat in world rugby and has been for the last 8 years
21 Oct 2012, 09:41 am
@out wide-3: Without the rucking rules the game lets the opensider do as he pleases and the referees never pemalise Ritchie.
I’m surprised he hasn’t been taken out long ago.
21 Oct 2012, 10:08 am
@goyougoodthing2-5: they do penalise him but they never have the guts to card him, if they did he would have to stop infringing
21 Oct 2012, 10:13 am
@hendrikp-2:
@goyougoodthing2-5:
@Big Hit-6:
So you clowns witnessed a head butt and a knee to the head but complain that he
slows the ball down like most #7s.
Sort your dumba$$ selves out.
Moaning thugs you lot are.
21 Oct 2012, 10:14 am
@goyougoodthing2-5: maybe you didn’t hear the coach’s comments after the game. He takes a cheapshot every other game but usually dished out so that the officials miss it. I don’t believe this is because players are taking on the role of enforcer referee. It has more to do with his value as a player that has been recognised by the awards he has won. So in a way these attempts to injure him are a compliment but sadly one day some cheapshot is going to cause some more lasting damage.
21 Oct 2012, 10:18 am
@Hurricane-7: theyre Saffas mate, thats normal for their rugby dont you know..
like no one here has mentioned TPNs late charge on Jane also..
strange they only ever mention when the ABs “cheat”
thats how damaged their psyches are, mind you , when you watch the rubbish their team dishes up, it comes as no surprise..
SA rugby is k@k
21 Oct 2012, 10:25 am
Don’t think anything said here is going to change some minds influenced by perceptions that aren’t accurate anyway but ask yourselves this guys. If he played for the Boks would you be dishing out all this Ritchie hatred? McCaw is as hard as nails, plays to the limit the laws and referee allows but to call him a cheat just suggests to me that some don’t really understand what happens at the breakdown in modern rugby and what the role of a good opensider is.
21 Oct 2012, 10:25 am
And once again see Richie as professional as ever when the ref got the two together
and didnt say a thing….even though the guy put a knee in his face then followed
with a headbutt….not a peep from Richie.
Awesome, ref got it so wrong. Not many stay on the field after a knee and a headbutt
when the ref saw it…. Isnt that what Bakkies calls cheating?
21 Oct 2012, 10:29 am
@out wide-10: @Hurricane-11: you have to understand, the Bokkes have won 3 games against both NZ and Aust in the last 16 or 17 attempts..
3 games…
1 from 7 versus ABs
2 from 8/9 against the Aussies..
its a moral victory for them the draw..
hahahaha
21 Oct 2012, 10:31 am
It is more a case of **** tackled ball rules causing grief amongst rugby supporters
there is just too fine a line between
the tackled player releasing the ball
the tackler releasing the tacklee
players supporting their own bodyweight
etc,etc,etc
There are far too many penalisable offenses to look out for at the tackle that invariably a large number of indiscretions are missed or incorrectly interpreted due to the truckload of rules surrounding this area
eg Woodcock was yellow carded for not releasing the tackled player
when in actual fact he did not even make a tackle
all games a riddled with similar cases
The ref is only human and with the rules the way they presently are refs are on a hiding to nothing
and the supporters are having to take it on the chin
21 Oct 2012, 10:32 am
@poppa69-9: It doesn’t always seem like it on this blogsite but there are a lot of Saffas who recognise Ritchie for the great rugbyplayer he is. They are just not as vociferous as the “cheat” brigade. There is also a hell of a lot of respect for the AB’s in SA – people just don’t come out with it very easily.
21 Oct 2012, 10:39 am
@spartan-13:
Yep, i have been saying it alot Spartan.
The tackle law, rucks as well as scrums have so many little technical calls and alot can go either way is really annoying.
21 Oct 2012, 10:39 am
@out wide-14: disagree.. the chorus grows stronger everyday
and its only when it suits
case in point
Fitzpatrick, always considered a cheat even today on here, but when he stated his opinion that Bakkies and Matfield were the best locking partnership, his word is suddenly gospel..
21 Oct 2012, 10:42 am
On another angle, I wonder how mad Robbie Deans is at Higginbotham. The guy is a pretty good player when he is concentrating on rugby and now he is most likely to be suspended for a lengthy time adding to Deans’ problems of players he can’t use.
21 Oct 2012, 10:45 am
@poppa69-16: But all hookers are cheats aren’t they?
Jokes aside Fitzy was great – loved that “all credit to the opposition” line he used.
21 Oct 2012, 10:47 am
Gotta go. Hope Ritchie’s head only hurts half as much as mine does from last nights beers.
21 Oct 2012, 10:53 am
Maybe if he stayed on his side he would not cop it? POB’s stuges want to stay on the “list” and therefore don’t want to be the one to do the right thing and card the cheater. He and Hansen need to harden the f uk up and stop whinging.
21 Oct 2012, 10:54 am
@Hurricane-15:
I feel the ABs got the short end of the stick this weekend
but the main reason for the draw was their failure to lift themselves for a dead rubber against practically an Aussie c team
which was understandable
I have to say though
Who better to stop our run than our Anzac brothers from across the ditch
21 Oct 2012, 10:55 am
On Fitzy, anyone who falls to the ground pretending to be hit like he did in ’95 is a cheat. End of story
21 Oct 2012, 10:58 am
@whatever-22: Brussouw did that in a game too..
so he must be a cheat as well huh?
21 Oct 2012, 11:00 am
Brousouw was hit, big difference you thick pr ick
21 Oct 2012, 11:01 am
@whatever-20:
POB?
However, the International Rugby Board referees are back in the hands of the Northern Hemisphere after Frenchman Joel Jutge was appointed as O’Brien’s replacement.
The New Zealander is set for a new role working with sevens officials before the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Now who looks stupid?
You are a fool, and i am not buying the ole i took the bait.
point is if you think headbutts and kness to someones head is ok then dont whinge if it ever happens to one of your players. You guys cried about Smit getting thrown on his a$$.
21 Oct 2012, 11:04 am
@whatever-24: please, he swan dived straight out of the royal ballet..
of course hes a Saffa so he must have been hit.
you really are a fcktard arent you
21 Oct 2012, 11:04 am
@whatever-24:
Brussow did a back one-and-a-half somersault into a tuck.
Olympics diving is what Brussow was going for.
He would have been marked a 3
21 Oct 2012, 11:05 am
They are still Pod’s stuges. He set the tone for the whole panel and until we get some new blood they are all pretty much tainted.
Whinge moan Whinge, plse don’t try label us as whinges when you guys set the std in that dept
21 Oct 2012, 11:08 am
@spartan-21:
True.
But this team should have been better than that.
They had alot to pump them up, Mealamu and of course equaling the record should have been enough.
But we just didn not look good on the night. Missed 2-3 penalties and dropped 2 balls with try line looking open. just wasnt our night, well done Oz for stopping us.
21 Oct 2012, 11:08 am
Hurricane, Brousouw was hit….. Big difference, Fitzpatrick fell to the ground like he was king hit and nobody touched him!! How can you even try compare the two?? If you try you are a lost cause, seriously…
21 Oct 2012, 11:10 am
Oh poppa, f uk off and go check the doors you retarded doooooos
21 Oct 2012, 11:11 am
@whatever-28: this whinge moan thing, seems youre doing a lot of it
but take McCaw as an example, the noise out of the republic in regards whinging and cheating makes any of our whinges pale in comparison..
SA, no good at rugby, but fantastic at finding excuses why..
21 Oct 2012, 11:11 am
@whatever-28:
You have no clue do you?
To condone headbutts and knees is what cowards do.
POB does not work for the referees board…..understand?
I will find the thread about the Smit getting slamed…lol we will see moaning
21 Oct 2012, 11:12 am
@whatever-31: you have a fascination with doors and doing the rounds dont you?
is it because at your psyche ward they check them every half hour? to make sure you dont hurt yourself?
hahaha keep believing Im a security guard mate, it shows how obstinate, stubborn and dumb you really are..
21 Oct 2012, 11:13 am
Hey, I’ll leave you two keeewee a holes alone to give each other handjobs, have fun
21 Oct 2012, 11:14 am
@whatever-35: heat getting a bit much is it? truth hurts huh> Brussouw is a cheat, as Hurri says, his dive was worthy of being made into a movie, a **** movie like invictus..
21 Oct 2012, 11:16 am
Cheeeting kiwis got their deserts, did not deserve the win record.
21 Oct 2012, 11:17 am
I’ll find you the thread about the 2007 quarter final and I’ll show you whinging and ref slamming! Open your other eye, just for once
21 Oct 2012, 11:17 am
@whatever-35:
I sometimes wonder what you think about when you say those sorts of things.
21 Oct 2012, 11:18 am
oooh look, another Saffa intellectual giant has given his opinion.
SA rugby is k@K
as 4 from 9 shows..
21 Oct 2012, 11:19 am
Does McCaw cheat? Yip
Is it his job to cheat? Of course it is
Is he good at it? Best in the world
How does he get away with it? Because he is a tough mofo who despite getting butted, raked, kicked, bitten and punched throughout his career keeps going back for more. No other player infringes as much as him because they aren’t as brave or tough as him. He played the majority of his career against enforcers like Johnson and Bakkies and none of them could deter him, he’s a freak of nature.
The bloke is the greatest player of all time and remains humble whether in victory or defeat. I wish he was South African.
IMHO any other views are motivated through jealousy.
21 Oct 2012, 11:19 am
2010 – heaslip knees richie
2011 – cooper knees richie on the head
- rougerie acts as his optometrist
2012 – greyling connects with an elbow to the face.
- higgers knees richie & headbutts him to boot.
what great player has ever attracted such clear contempt & abuse from fellow players?
21 Oct 2012, 11:20 am
@whatever-38:
Go get it.
Go back 5 years, all i need to do is go back on week to find moaning etc…
21 Oct 2012, 11:20 am
@whatever-38: will it match the 2011 1.4 final one?
got to love karma, SAs dined out on that 3007 game for four years, then the tide turned sharpely, it was beautiful to watch..
good fcken job..
and besides
WE”RE WORLD CHAMPIONS, doing the title justice, and still unbeaten since the atrt of the tournament..
when was your teams last loss? oh thats right, their last game
hahahahahahaha
21 Oct 2012, 11:21 am
Poppadoos, there’s a window open, go close it or you will lose your job doos. You really are a sad fukka. Record gone, try again sometime will you…. Hahahaha
21 Oct 2012, 11:21 am
Richeat McCaw might be wondering why he keeps getting hit in the face by opposition tams… The answer is really quite simple – for cheating.
Players and teams work very hard in training and want to make their countries proud. When you get a guy playing cynically and you see him spoiling your teams chance to get quick ball and play positive rugby, well players get pissed off… then when the refs dont penalise him to the extent that he deserves, sometimes they just penalise the guy themselves… Its not right, but thats what happens.
21 Oct 2012, 11:21 am
@DEE DAH-41:
All i could do was smile at that post….dont really know what to say.
21 Oct 2012, 11:23 am
Yup, Bok rugger is average at present, but we will get better. The AB’s on the other hand have only one wsy to go. The wheel turns so enjoy it while you can
21 Oct 2012, 11:24 am
@the authority-46:
Fact is you guys refuse to pick a player that actually gets in there and steal or disrupts a team. Brussow does but he is injured.
All teams cheat, if they didnt then there would be no penalties.
But some teams like to take the law into there own hands, and some fans think its ok…like you.
Now can you tell me what McCaw was doing to get a knee to the head and a head butt?
You tell me cos i think you really dont know.
21 Oct 2012, 11:25 am
@whatever-45: thought you were going? hahaha 4 from 9 games. not even 50%?
but hey, your winning percentage has been on the decline for twenty years, so its not surprising really..
go up north, but then youd get beaten regularly up there too, oh wait, you guys do, hahahah
dumb, thick, stupid rugby played by meatheads
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