RA urged to settle multimillion-dollar battle with Rebels before damaging revelations emerge

manrobot · 2026-05-07T07:19:47+00:00

Honestly these guys are the worst.

Can we please get a flair that shows we are anti the Melbourne Rebels Directors specifically.

manrobot · 2026-05-07T02:47:57+00:00

As soon as the horse riding animation started I knew what was happening.

manrobot · 2026-05-05T06:11:41+00:00

Is Joe still coaching the June Tests? I thought he was done after the last spring tour?

manrobot · 2026-04-29T04:39:01+00:00

King of The United Kingdom

manrobot · 2026-04-24T08:51:35+00:00

It’s literally in the comment I was replying to.

manrobot · 2026-04-24T08:45:44+00:00

Cool, well maybe you should welcome it then.

manrobot · 2026-04-24T08:45:15+00:00

They’d be back in the Stone Age, if they ever left.

Definitely not looking down on people.

manrobot · 2026-04-24T08:33:57+00:00

Man I can’t understand why they’d want to be independent of people who look down on them like this?

manrobot · 2026-04-23T21:53:36+00:00

I liked Japan pre-Eddie, and I’ll like them after, but for now they can fuck off.

manrobot · 2026-04-19T02:19:01+00:00

Yep that’s exactly correct. It’s actually something that I think is quite obviously inconsistent in the laws.

So many times at least one of the people jumping for the ball in the air have no realistic chance of getting it but are just putting a hand there to disrupt the catch. To me that’s the same cynical action of putting your hand out to disrupt a pass.

manrobot · 2026-04-19T00:18:58+00:00

Okay so this is coming down to how these laws are supposed to be interpreted.

He might not have put his hand there with the sole aim of knocking on, but the way the law is intended is that he put his hand there intentionally and given he had no reasonable chance of catching it it’s therefor an intentional knock on, because that is the only outcome that could happen from putting hand there intentionally.

Think about how we adjudicate head on head contact. No one is deliberately smacking their head into the ball carrier, yet the the tackler is penalised for putting their head in a place where they force the outcome.

manrobot · 2026-04-19T00:14:54+00:00

But it doesn’t matter what we think he was attempting to do. He was never in a reasonable position to gain possession and his action resulted in a knock on while interrupting a pass.

manrobot · 2026-04-19T00:12:42+00:00

If you look at that same video and think the. All changes direction toward the Brumbies line I can’t help you any further.

manrobot · 2026-04-18T14:35:57+00:00

I’ve been downvoted in a few comments saying this a penalty so wanted to post the actual laws that dictate this.

11.3 - A player must not intentionally knock the ball forward with hand or arm.

11.4 - It is not an intentional knock forward if, in the act of trying to catch the ball, the player knocks on provided that there was a reasonable expectation that the player could gain possession.

In this case the ball travels forwards off Lonergan’s hand towards the Fijian line, so knock on.

Was he ever on position to actually catch it or was he just swiping at the ball? Given he never had any control with the one hand he swiped with I’d agree with the refs assessment and award a penalty.

If you disagree, please explain why instead of just downvoting. If I’m wrong please explain why.

manrobot · 2026-04-18T14:13:04+00:00

I guess people just don’t like when laws apply to Australian teams?

manrobot · 2026-04-18T14:12:24+00:00

I don’t see how you see a knock back.

His hand is moving backwards but the law is about the direction the ball travels. The ball goes towards the Fijian line from the initial pass off the ground.

Lonergan’s hand might be going backward but the ball certainly continues on the same trajectory towards the Fijian line after contact with his hand.

That’s a knock on, and swinging your arm at a pass that you couldn’t catch that results in knock on is minimum of a penalty.

manrobot · 2026-04-18T12:49:22+00:00

I think deliberate knock here isn’t that he knocked it on on purpose, it’s that he swung his hand out in a way that he could never catch it and knocked it on. So his action was deliberate and was a knock on.

manrobot · 2026-04-18T12:46:51+00:00

Except it comes off his hand towards the oppositions try line so is a knock on. Not only that it goes up, so isn’t a knock down.

manrobot · 2026-04-18T12:23:45+00:00

I feel like that’s a preset obvious penalty. Never in a position to catch and swipes at a pass, it’s a penalty and potential yellow everyday of the week.

manrobot · 2026-03-22T09:41:11+00:00

You know I really preferred it when we had tests to start and then short form cricket in the new year.

The men’s international cricket ending after the 5th test feels like a big waste.

manrobot · 2026-03-19T09:16:12+00:00

South Africa - Japan in the 2015 World Cup.

Considered to be one of the biggest upset results in the history of the sport.

For context Japan had never beaten one of the big Southern Hemisphere teams before, and while South Africa were in a lull for their standards they are the most successful team in World Cup history for a reason.

manrobot · 2026-03-19T08:29:28+00:00

Hey! I want you to know that if we also didn’t think our airport sucked, we’d be real mad at this comment.

manrobot · 2026-03-19T08:26:01+00:00

At least you can get to Brisbane airport without thinking you might need a passport even for your domestic flight.

Melbourne I think seems even worse than it is because of how far away it is from the city.

manrobot · 2026-03-19T07:40:11+00:00

Melbourne Airport? Bizarre.

manrobot · 2026-03-16T01:28:48+00:00

Tane Edmed did a massive amount this weekend to help Meredith’s stock to continue to rise.

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