McCaw to play 8.

wasps wrote:I haven't been on this site for ages, and it's good to see that GreyGhosts level of sarcasm / irony hasn't diminished at all.
It's also amusing to see that it still winds everyone up so much.

As for the McCaw comments, he simply manages to get away with everything that every other players wishes they could.
It's not any conspiracy one way or the other... he just plays the ref better than anyone else (as well as being bloody good at what he does)


The biggest problem is that rugby used to be a sport that was almost self-refereeing.
If you were on the wrong side in a ruck, you'd get a shoeing.
If you were a bit too naughty in a scrum, you'd get a right-hander

These are things that don't / can't occur in the modern game, and the refs aren't always capable of keeping it all under control.


and finally... any backrow that doesn't cheat isn't doing it's job properly.