Ref for Toulouse announced

Flash Gordon · Post by **Flash Gordon** » February 14th, 2006, 1:25 pm

Apparently Dave Pearson is going to be in charge, the guy who reffed the Ireland Italy game. So basically the game plan is to knock the ball on in the goal area and get a score. And of course grounding the ball is optional for tries......

ruck · Post by **ruck** » February 14th, 2006, 1:57 pm

could be worse, you could have ended up with Nigel Shitehouse

Flash Gordon · Post by **Flash Gordon** » February 14th, 2006, 2:01 pm

ruck wrote:could be worse, you could have ended up with Nigel Shitehouse

Yep, could be......thought he might be shipped off to learn the rules after the Italy game.....

thecoolfreak · Post by **thecoolfreak** » February 14th, 2006, 2:02 pm

Surprised that he is being given such a big match after italy

jezzer · Post by **jezzer** » February 14th, 2006, 2:15 pm

anyone seen the photos in the Examiner that supposedly prove both tries were OK??

Haven't seen 'em meself but supposedly ball dropped backwards for first and (???) Bowe did ground the ball for second.

thecoolfreak · Post by **thecoolfreak** » February 14th, 2006, 2:17 pm

no, when were they in the examiner

CM · Post by CM » February 14th, 2006, 2:52 pm

Apparently Dave Pearson is going to be in charge

Leinsterman · Post by **Leinsterman** » February 14th, 2006, 3:20 pm

jezzer wrote:anyone seen the photos in the Examiner that supposedly prove both tries were OK??

Haven't seen 'em meself but supposedly ball dropped backwards for first and (???) Bowe did ground the ball for second.

Well OBVIOUSLY the Examiner would say Flannery's try was ok.... Munster based rag anaw....

Colm · Post by **Colm** » February 14th, 2006, 3:55 pm

Leinsterman wrote: Well OBVIOUSLY the Examiner would say Flannery's try was ok.... Munster based rag anaw....

Exactly my point too. Notice the news story on http://www.breakingnews.ie (Run by the Irish Examiner) which is supplied to them by http://www.rugby.ie and yet they allow it to be published as

Irish Examiner/Rugby.ie wrote:"Controversial English referee Dave Pearson will take charge of Leinster's Heineken Cup quarter-final tie at Toulouse on April 1.

Pearson was the man who awarded Ireland two dubious tries in the Six Nations win over Italy."

Yet, http://www.LeinsterRugby.ie has it as ..

Leinster Rugby wrote:English official Dave Pearson will take charge of his first tournament quarter-final when he referees the clash between reigning champions Toulouse and Leinster at Le Stadium on Saturday, 1 April.

So, my point being ... how can it be a good decision (proving it by photo evidence printed in their previous editions) to give Flannery a try but when he referees a Leinster game he's "controversial"?

Flash Gordon · Post by **Flash Gordon** » February 14th, 2006, 4:17 pm

Colm wrote:
Leinsterman wrote: Well OBVIOUSLY the Examiner would say Flannery's try was ok.... Munster based rag anaw....
Exactly my point too. Notice the news story on http://www.breakingnews.ie (Run by the Irish Examiner) which is supplied to them by http://www.rugby.ie and yet they allow it to be published as
Irish Examiner/Rugby.ie wrote:"Controversial English referee Dave Pearson will take charge of Leinster's Heineken Cup quarter-final tie at Toulouse on April 1.

Pearson was the man who awarded Ireland two dubious tries in the Six Nations win over Italy."

Yet, http://www.LeinsterRugby.ie has it as ..
Leinster Rugby wrote:English official Dave Pearson will take charge of his first tournament quarter-final when he referees the clash between reigning champions Toulouse and Leinster at Le Stadium on Saturday, 1 April.
So, my point being ... how can it be a good decision (proving it by photo evidence printed in their previous editions) to give Flannery a try but when he referees a Leinster game he's "controversial"?

I guess the answer's "it can't".

There's just no way that Bowe's try was good. Flannery's was doubtful to say the least - I'm also not convinced the Italian score wasn't a double movement.....

epaddy · Post by **epaddy** » February 14th, 2006, 4:37 pm

I really feel sorry for Munster. Niger Whitehouse is the worst ref on the planet. He cost us a home q/f

Flash Gordon · Post by **Flash Gordon** » February 14th, 2006, 4:41 pm

epaddy wrote:I really feel sorry for Munster. Niger Whitehouse is the worst ref on the planet. He cost us a home q/f

Wot? Worst than Changeling

epaddy · Post by **epaddy** » February 14th, 2006, 4:44 pm

Flash Gordon wrote:
epaddy wrote:I really feel sorry for Munster. Niger Whitehouse is the worst ref on the planet. He cost us a home q/f
Wot? Worst than Changeling

Ok changeling is worse but Dickinson and Shithouse come next

sewa · Post by **sewa** » February 14th, 2006, 5:14 pm

epaddy wrote:I really feel sorry for Munster. Niger Whitehouse is the worst ref on the planet. He cost us a home q/f

No its because you couldnt counter a gameplan that a child playing under 8's could have told you Bath would use. You werent good enough on the day against a very limited side.

CM · Post by CM » February 14th, 2006, 5:19 pm

No its because you couldnt counter a gameplan that a child playing under 8's could have told you Bath would use.

Eh, we countered it quite well thanks. Which is why we spent most of the match with the ball. Unfortunately Mr Whitehouse has a unique interpretation of the deliberate knock on.

Flash Gordon · Post by **Flash Gordon** » February 14th, 2006, 5:33 pm

sewa wrote:
epaddy wrote:I really feel sorry for Munster. Niger Whitehouse is the worst ref on the planet. He cost us a home q/f
No its because you couldnt counter a gameplan that a child playing under 8's could have told you Bath would use. You werent good enough on the day against a very limited side.

What are you on about Sewa? The second Bath game we clearly had no issue with their game plan. The first game was a transition team in the first weeks of totally different forward/back play patterns. I actually thought (and accepted) that we weren't going to make the quarters this year as the transition would take a year. Despite that, we shoud have beaten Bath first time round and we kept the ball very well.

epaddy · Post by **epaddy** » February 14th, 2006, 5:37 pm

And lets not fotget around 7 players missing

Leinsterman · Post by **Leinsterman** » February 14th, 2006, 5:41 pm

Lads, don't overwhelm the poor guy with facts.....

sewa · Post by **sewa** » February 15th, 2006, 10:28 am

Leinsterman wrote:Lads, don't overwhelm the poor guy with facts.....

Here is a fact. You were at home against one of the worst GPsides and you lost. The final result is the only fact that matters.

Flash Gordon · Post by **Flash Gordon** » February 15th, 2006, 10:37 am

sewa wrote:
Leinsterman wrote:Lads, don't overwhelm the poor guy with facts.....
Here is a fact. You were at home against one of the worst GPsides and you lost. The final result is the only fact that matters.

Here's another one, in all the years of European Cup rugby, there's only one team that have beaten Bath at the Rec. Leinster.

The other fact is that our team was a matter of weeks into a TOTALLY new style of play with new coaches and new personnel. Anyway, doesn't matter now, we're in the quarters and off to Toulouse with thousands of fans travelling, that exceeds my ambition at the start of the year, so its all good as far as Leinster rugby is concerned at the moment in my view.