Comments on: Just hush!

By: Fence

Fence — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:30:12 +0000

Alan we didn’t hear the refs question you see, as we had the terrible George Hamilton doing the commentary. He is bad enough at soccer, but he doesn’t understand rugby and never knows what is going on, and was busy screaming nonsense when we should have been listening to the ref.
I still don’t see how the ref saw anything though, you know, sour grapes and all

Pity the TMOs eh, they get some abuse when it is all the ref’s fault.

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:49:24 +0000

Actually I was thinking at the time, after the Jonny Wilkinson try controversy against Scotland, that the ref got the question right this time. (In case you didn’t know, on that occasion he asked if Wilkinson had hit the corner post before grounding the ball, which he hadn’t, and the TMO wasn’t allowed to tell him that he had put his foot on the ground.) In this case you could clearly hear the ref’s question and it was “Can you see any reason why I cannot award the try?” The ref himself had already stated that he had seen the grounding, but he must have been very aware of how important it was and wanted to be doubly certain.

By: Fence

Fence — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:52:05 +0000

From Ulster Anne, from Ulster, let the conspiracy theories begin But it was all down to the question asked by the ref supposedly. The TMO can only answer the question. We all missed the question being asked, either because George “over-excited and know nothing” Hamilton was screeching, or because the footage got cut off for a few seconds.

By: anne

anne — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:09:36 +0000

You know, I’m really sad I won’t be around for the World Cup. So sad, in fact, that I may have to turn the job offer down.
Nah, not really.
And tell your brother that he can be grateful I wasn’t around. Although I did think of you when we scored that very last one. To think the video guy was Irish…