The statement is pretty clear there. At the height of the GGA Championship nobody cared in Ulster and they switched over to rugby Test matches (ones regularly lampooned on here).
That kind of engagement will pay off in time. Those with a partitionist mindset will say having only a couple of Ulster players involved is an issue but it really isnāt.
Its only fair @Halfpipe explain it to you himself rather than having you try to dissect it further as Iām not sure from what youāre saying that you really are getting to the nuts of the nuance.
They are too often too marginal for me to do that.
Great to see you keeping up with events in the Ulster championship @Tim_Riggins, just shows the reach of the competition! While my own anecdotes certainly do carry substantial weight and I can understand why you place such value on them, probably best not to assess the strength of various sports up here solely on the tv setting in a pub in a unionist town 2 years ago.
I donāt know where this narrative is coming from but itās nonsense . Barnes basically said sorry I didnāt see the replay but from where I was it was a foul . That now seems to have turned into Barnes apologising for giving the penalty which he never did .
Myself and @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy keep abreast of all tv developments regarding sports in Ireland and also the GGA. Naturally this caught my eye.
The last line is cute- come back again here reloaded before trying this craic again.
3 mins is nothing. Itās basically one more run of play.
Iād also look at varying the reward for a drop goal vs. a penalty.
It shouldnāt have been given a penalty in the first place. The other stuff is added from what Iāve read of the situation since.
Youāre actually increasing the vagaries of refereeing. They should be reduced.
This one looks like a red tbh
https://twitter.com/DMAC_1O/status/1718747264838144461?t=cSVsgU1HqTLizZLxCBOq5A&s=19
Was a poor call in my eyes but thereās split seconds in the judgement. Can see how the mix up on him appearing to apologise was made.
I actually think Barnes will be a loss. If world rugby had any initiative, theyād send him down to the Antipodes and get him involved in getting their refs down there on the same page and level. Thought SH refs were all over the shop in comparison to NH counterparts this tournament.
Barnes leaving on top while best of the lot. Never thought Iād say that after his first few forays reffing Munster.
Itās all very strange to a rugby outsider . In other sports youād call the refereeing inconsistent. But in rugby itās just the rules are open to āinterpretationā and you have to āpaint a pictureā
Which is bizarre in extreme, itās like tricking the ref into believing something. The South American soccer players get absolutely hammered for doing that .
Following your footballing example through, youād say VAR has really cleared things up, it has? And what need was there for VAR if there was full certainty in ref decisions?
Uncertainty and debate over decisions exists in all team sports really
Tom OāToole is from Ratoath.
Iād say there was serious competition for those rights
Probably decent interest. First major rugby rights deal for Sky in a while.
Big push in the U.K. to put Six Nations on the protected list.
Are they not always on sky?
There was āprobablyā decent interest, by all accounts, but we are none the wiser as to who these other vested parties may have been.