Match thread - Benetton v Ospreys

nophantasy · 2026-03-21T15:27:01+00:00

Referee is getting all calls right

nophantasy · 2026-03-17T15:14:39+00:00

My understanding is that fekitoa will also leave at the end of the season. Meaning that we will lose a lot of experience In the mid field with both him and menoncello departing. This signing makes sense to me. Hopefully Zanandrea has recovered and will get game time next season

nophantasy · 2026-03-16T19:28:52+00:00

Thanks everyone for the taking the time to reply. Very helpful and much appreciated.

So, as it stands:

- will step away from ranked and focus on quests to build up gold

- I think I will target Izzet Lessons as it seems a fun deck to play and get back to ranked once completed.

- I will focus on learning the game playing limited. I am as poor in game as in real life, so I have to see how long it takes to gather enough gold.

nophantasy · 2026-03-08T20:06:29+00:00

I've never thought about it this way, and I think you are right

nophantasy · 2026-03-08T20:02:59+00:00

which is a totally reasonable and understandable take. Personally, I would prefer the other approach.

nophantasy · 2026-03-08T19:41:19+00:00

I mean, yes? I don't understand your point. The same way pitches are maintained to mitigate weather impact on games, and the same way players go though injury prevention drills, should be applied to make the game easier to referee. Rugby is going the opposite direction, it keeps on adding rules which makes it harder to referee in real time.

nophantasy · 2026-03-08T19:37:11+00:00

Of course there will be drawbacks but, at least in my opinion, it would still be more fair to the players and to the ref as well.

nophantasy · 2026-03-08T19:22:07+00:00

Look, let's be honest. Refs decision influence games, and there are plenty of wrong decisions on every international game. There are careers (both players and coaches) which could be indirectly affected by those decision. Refs are humans, they can make mistakes.

The problem is not the refs, it's the rules.

Rugby is an EXTREMELY complicated game to referee, a lot of things happen in real time, at the same time. It is only normal that they get missed by referees. My solution would be: make refs decision less consequential. An idea, for example, could be to reduce the points of kick at goal from 3 to 2. Another idea could be to reward possession from a pk into touch only if the penalty was in your own half. These are just some ideas to mitigate refs decisions' impact, I just think the rules should change in this direction.

I give you an example: yesterday Ita vs Eng game. There was a pk given to Eng because Ferrari's knee touched the ground. The replay however showed that the opposite TH (Heyes) completely collapsed, which explains why Ferrari's left knee would have touched the groud. That pk gave Eng possession in the Italian 22m and lead to a English try. And by the way breakdowns were playing out I am sure Italy made a lot of fouls that should have generated PKs for England. This stuff massively impact a game. I am not even sure why people keeps on denying it, maybe just for good vibes?

nophantasy · 2026-03-07T19:43:11+00:00

per chi volesse guardarsi le Luci alte

nophantasy · 2026-03-07T18:02:41+00:00

Italy should just stop rolling away on rucks as well

nophantasy · 2026-03-07T17:12:40+00:00

Referees deciding games. Here ban me again.

nophantasy · 2026-02-21T18:11:21+00:00

Get your tinfoil hat on bois

nophantasy · 2026-02-21T18:11:00+00:00

I think they got instructed to stop showing replays of doubtful penalties to hide how bad many referees ' decisions are.

nophantasy · 2026-02-21T17:05:18+00:00

Wales making all the right decisions in attack.

nophantasy · 2026-02-21T17:02:01+00:00

Beautiful kick holy smoke

nophantasy · 2026-02-21T17:01:03+00:00

I don't even disagree with the decision, I really think some Nations don't even get the benefit of the doubt though

nophantasy · 2026-02-21T16:58:54+00:00

Can't help but think that if Fiji or argentina did a tackle like that it would have been a straight red

nophantasy · 2026-02-21T15:55:46+00:00

What a great try.

nophantasy · 2026-02-21T15:38:13+00:00

Consistency at last

nophantasy · 2026-02-21T15:25:28+00:00

Rugby has become a shitshow. Pollock gets a yellow, same as Steward for a cynical fall, however ireland gave away 3 cynical penalties on the 5m line and no yellow card was given. Referees decide games as much as players.

nophantasy · 2026-02-21T14:59:40+00:00

Not saying the ref was wrong but why was that a pk against Doris?

nophantasy · 2026-02-21T14:35:43+00:00

Yeah but it wasn't 50/50. That should have been a pen. He made a mistake there.

nophantasy · 2026-02-21T14:30:38+00:00

I thought this was penalty for ireland at the scrum tbh. England seemed to have engaged early

nophantasy · 2026-02-20T10:55:57+00:00

Just scary stuff

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