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    Wallabies vindicated as rugby board backflips

    Date October 4, 2012 - 9:08AM

    Paul Cully

    The International Rugby Board has made the startling admission that officials erred in denying the Wallabies a replacement last weekend in a Test they finished with 14 men.

    Despite an earlier ruling against him, the board has declared Wallabies coach Robbie Deans was, in fact, correct in trying to replace Tatafu Polota-Nau with Saia Fainga'a in the match, which saw the Springboks score a try in the dying minutes of their 31-8 win in South Africa.

    An IRB spokesman said yesterday that referee, Alain Rolland, had been right to prevent the substitution.

    But the governing body then issued the findings to a review, which concluded that Rolland and his officials had made an embarrassing mistake.

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    “The area of substitution management is a team effort,” said IRB match official selection committee chairman John Jeffrey in a released statement. “This was an unfortunate case of human error by the match official team, who fully recognise and accept that they made a mistake in the application of the substitution law.”

    The Wallabies management will have every right to feel furious at the ruling, as the Springboks scored their last try, to Bryan Habana, with the Wallabies playing, unfairly, short a man. The try blew out the scoreline to 31-8.

    The Wallabies' policy of replacing loose-head prop Benn Robinson at the half-hour mark and returning him to the field later in the match has raised some eyebrows, but the IRB has accepted that Ben Alexander was injured during the match, thereby freeing up one substitution that the Wallabies tried to use when Polota-Nau was forced from the field.


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    wouldn't have changed the result though

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    IF Benn Robinson can only last 30 minutes on the field he needs to do some work on his cardio.

    IF its planned that Robinson is replaced after 30 minutes - Its not done in the spirit of the Laws - and a disgrace.

    The Wallabies Management can jump up and down all the like about this - fact is - the Boks spanked us like red headed step children.

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    unfortunately, the Force have been doing the prop replacement every game.

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    Just another thought.

    If Benn Robinson is only running around for 30 minutes and he knows that he is only running around for 30 minutes why the hell isn't he the busiest Forward on the field for that 30 minutes with hit ups and tackle count?

    Perhaps the tactic is right, but we are using the wrong player?

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    complete and utter bullshit, they have even contradicted themselves twice in the past day. We have been hoisted on our own petard. It was always going to happen at some point, people have been talking about it all this season.

    And if Force WERE doing that tactic, its because we ALSO have been lumbered with a no good fat useless tub of lard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sittingbison View Post
    complete and utter bullshit, they have even contradicted themselves twice in the past day. We have been hoisted on our own petard. It was always going to happen at some point, people have been talking about it all this season.

    And if Force WERE doing that tactic, its because we ALSO have been lumbered with a no good fat useless tub of lard.
    we started using it last year when we had fairbrother dunning cowan and longbottom

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    I'm glad they have investigated the matter to help avoid this in the future. In the end the decision only affected the total amount we lost by.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GAFFA View Post
    we started using it last year when we had fairbrother dunning cowan and longbottom
    problem spotted

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    Open your eyes folks, the Boks and South African SR teams have been doing it regularly for over a decade.
    Australian teams have been increasingly doing it for at least five years.
    Should be mandatory that any replaced Front Row player has a pie and a Coke.

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    When the force have done this in 2012, 2 of the 3 props did the hard yards for their "burst" on the ground - problem we have had over the past few years is the work ethic of some higher proflie wallaby capped props not pulling their weight around the park.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Exile View Post
    Just another thought.

    If Benn Robinson is only running around for 30 minutes and he knows that he is only running around for 30 minutes why the hell isn't he the busiest Forward on the field for that 30 minutes with hit ups and tackle count?

    Perhaps the tactic is right, but we are using the wrong player?
    can anyone please explain to me how this tub of lard gets a game ? The man belongs in the 80`s. look at any other front row from NZ or SA - see any lard ? nope, just hard arsed men you would not want to run into. Robinson ? surely you would be smiling when you see him lining you up

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