Quote ="Barrie's Glass Eye"eusa_clap.gif well said, but in the england team there were only two maybe three players I have seen "sort things out2 and unfortunately there about duw a pension.
Was it not a scrum that kicked the peacock fight of in the WWC?
Regarding Senior putting the jack of all trades squarely on his bottom, I recall him helping him up before putting him back down, anyway it got me thinking. Bailey did the same thing to Kevin Brown this year and there was outrafe.
On report should be scrapped at all levels but it makes absolutely no sense at international level. Will Isaac luke miss a game against england, no, it has nothing to help the team who was fouled.
If its bad enough to go on report, its enough for a yellow IMO
I believe reffs are scared, both of the aussies, and of spoiling the game and in regards to biff giving a sport with minute coverage a bad image. Thats why ganson should ref he dosent give two hoots what anyone thinks.'"
The problem is the ref's abuse the on-report system. It isn't supposed to be there as a cop-out but for when there is genuinely a case where the ref didn't see something. I cant recall which one but it was one of the internationals (think it might have been Wales v Australia but I could be wrong) where there was a bit of a scuffle just after a try and at the half-way line before the next kick-off the ref brought the 2 captains together and put the incident on-report. Thats fine by me, and is what the system was brought in for.
The Isaac Luke incident though was just a first class cop-out by a gutless referee. IIRC the ref even said to Luke "you deliberately tried to hurt him in the tackle". So the ref had seen the incident, gave a penalty but still put it on report. Ridiculous.
As for biff - we are sorely lacking it at international level for England, the only one in the series who looked up for it was Westwood. We need a Barrie Mac and Sculthorpe back, (or Morley in his prime) someone who the Aussies are genuinely wary of and who will dish out the biff at almost any opportunity.
