luckyeddie

Not laughing at your opinion, but I'm listening on the radio and as I read it Mat Dawson said "Wayne Barnes is having a blinder"

He got death threats from Kiwi fans for controversy over a forward pass against the French when they got knocked out.

I hope Wayne Barnes doesn't get abuse from fans for this like he did in 2007. He had to call it. Its hard to think of many better referees in the last few decades.

All of what you say is true, but that should not be used as a reason to excuse racial abuse. Behaving badly because somebody else behaved in that way only fuels the cycle of hate and violence. This is why the likes of MLK and Ghandi are held in such high esteem.

And here we go, talking about historical atrocities. The history of South Africa does not give the player the right to racially abused Curry, and yes calling someone a "white word removed" is textbook racial abuse, by picking out his skin colour and abusing him for that. If we want equality, every ethnicity needs to be held to the same standards.

Racism is racism, all types of discrimination are about the abuse of power. If we want to qualify that one set of people are allowed to behave badly because their ancestors were treated badly, then we are enter into the subjective world of historical atrocities. Equality is about all humans having the same rights and protections as each other. If his point was what you say, we are not looking at equality, but tit for tat retribution. I know this is not on the same scale as the Middle East conflict, but it is on the same spectrum, because each party can only see how they have been wronged and not the wrong they have undertaken.

One specialist hooker in the squad, now he has gone off injured after 3 minutes. Ridiculous management which could cost SA the game. Especially with a 7:1 forwards split on the bench.

This is the problem, it's not OK to take 7 minutes to check something that for nearly 150 years we have expected someone to decide in a split second. It's killing the spontaneity of the game. After seven minutes nobody give a shit any more they are just checking other football we scores We do not watch football for the referee and VAR to be centre stage.

I hope the ABs win tonight, I would rather their style of play be the one teams replicate rather than SA. It's OK to have one or two teams play like SA, but if others follow thinking it will bring success, there will be 4 years of turgid rugby. Best of luck to both teams though.

It wouldn't matter if we did, with the manager we have

Totally agree with this. I do not see why it all had to be done and dusted before the final. Go through the correct process to find the correct outcome. This just seems like a "nothing to see here" moment, but we will never find out. Maybe Curry was racially abused, maybe it was a linguistical misunderstanding, either way it should not be swept under the carpet.

Not sure what you're on about here. You say it's just racist abuse, get a grip and then you complain the England team did not take the knee to support people subject to racist abuse. Would you say the same if the roles were reversed.

That should make it better and bringing in a couple of lower tier sides will be good for the expansion of the game. Plus Ireland might actually win a knock out game.

You couldn't make it up, the Somerset Gimp. What a way to be remembered https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-67238445

I live next door to a bloke with a collection of guitars. It makes me want a collection of guns.

Walls painted in white reminds me of a mental hospital.

Is this sarcasm? Or are we slipping back into the 13th Century archery laws?

Thanks that means a l... Sorry I just can't do it

On American programmes you here people say "a bunch of water". WTF. I know language evolves and changes. There are hundreds of words to use rather than bunch. Use one.

The main problem was the buyer set the ball rolling with a building surveyor, who produced a generic cut and paste report that was just a back covering exercise (started off saying it was a mid terrace, when it is an end terrace, and got worse from there) . This then added costs through a "specialist" who charged for a quote and the council for retrospective certificate, and a renegotiated price. Then there is the EPC, extra insurance, the estate agent is extortionate for what they do, and solicitors are solicitors, charging a fortune and pretending it's a complicated process. Standing charges for services on an empty property. Plus at the end of it there is CGT. My issue is not paying for a service but, the expenses for bad services which add very little or nothing to the process. Red tape to screw money out of you.

I guess that's one less group game and one more knockout round if it's six groups of four.

For me the worst is Sam Smith, he sings like greased up deaf guy. Best is Live and Let Die

True, it was more the principle

The Scouse Steve Bruce, living off compensation for being shit at his job.

It was an impressive site. Wouldn't want to see it overhead dropping it's payload.