Bath vs Toulouse

[Mellsblue]

You do realise that in this horrible PC era you are not allowed to say that? I asked a niece, every cell of whom I love dearly, what she had to be depressed about after hearing she had been having counselling sessions. The reaction was basically a total condemnation of my 'dinosaur opinion'. I suggested watching the first Crocodile Dundee film for the scene where, when advised that someone was seeing a shrink, he said, "Hasn't she got any mates?" That's the difference then/now. Some bastard will charge £250 an hour for what my generation did over a pint for free.

I hope Freddie has mates.

It doesn't sound like you love her that much to be honest if you asked her some thing like that.

All sufferers are different. That's the major consideration, IMO.

Absolutely. With mental health, there is no one size fits all solution.

[CONVEX HULL]

Why didn’t he just put the fucking ball down!!?

Thank you for that, it caused me to smile....

[Mellsblue]

Whoever wrote the the strap line on the front cover of the S Times sport supplement is a bit of a ****.

[Mellsblue]

On a related note, S Jones has written such tripe that I couldn’t even finish the article. Normally, it’s worth it for a giggle or two but not today.

[francoisfou]

This is a good looking Toulouse squad that could marmelise Bath!

Hmm! Well, maybe not!

One point to make. Maxime Médard deliberately knocked the ball out of Freddie Burns' hands and it went out of play.
Shouldn't that have been penalised?

[Digby]

This is a good looking Toulouse squad that could marmelise Bath!

Hmm! Well, maybe not!

One point to make. Maxime Médard deliberately knocked the ball out of Freddie Burns' hands and it went out of play.
Shouldn't that have been penalised?

I thought he missed the ball and caught the wrist, which I don't think was his intent so he's a lucky chap so he is

[Mush]

He hit the ball, no doubt about it, but it went backwards - went over the dead ball line; 5 metre scrum to Bath.

[fivepointer]

Penalty try. Its an offence to throw the ball into touch. You can kick it, or run with it but you cannot make it dead by knocking it away.

[oldbackrow]

It did come off Medards foot so refs decision right (not many you could say that about this weekend!)

[Cameo]

Penalty try. Its an offence to throw the ball into touch. You can kick it, or run with it but you cannot make it dead by knocking it away.

You can't deliberately knock it out of play but if you deliberately knock it out someone's hands and it just happens to go out of play, that's not a pen. I think it would be pushing it to say that Medard had any particular plans for what happened to the ball. He just saw a very slight chance to get a hand to it and see what happened from there

[Puja]

And I can't support any claim for a penalty try, cause you'd have to go back for the previous offence of Burns being a tw*t.

Puja

[Which Tyler]

Can we PLEASE stop talking about this...

[Stom]

Can we PLEASE stop talking about this...

The Burn not healed yet?

[Puja]

Can we PLEASE stop talking about this...

The Burn not healed yet?

One might even say that the threaddie burns.

Puja

[Digby]

It did come off Medards foot so refs decision right (not many you could say that about this weekend!)

The foot is immaterial isn't it not being a deliberate kick? Or does the fact it's a knock back mean the foot is material? One for the refs to sort out. Though I'm still willing to allow he went for the ball perhaps but with Burns trying to put it down caught the wrist

[Spiffy]

He hit the ball, no doubt about it, but it went backwards - went over the dead ball line; 5 metre scrum to Bath.

If you look at the replays looks fairly clear that he hit Freddie's forearm, not the ball, causing Freddie to knock on. That would mean the knock on was the first offence, and the ref's decision was right.

[Spiffy]

He hit the ball, no doubt about it, but it went backwards - went over the dead ball line; 5 metre scrum to Bath.

If you look at the replays it seems fairly clear that he hit Freddie's forearm, not the ball, causing Freddie to knock on. That would mean the knock on was the first offence, and the ref's decision was right.

[Digby]

What was the ref's decision, that is who got the scrum?

[fivepointer]

Kaino cited for the hit on Roberts. Not sure if the prop who nutted Catt has been cited, but that was a straight red all day long.

[Which Tyler]

Kaino cited for the hit on Roberts. Not sure if the prop who nutted Catt has been cited, but that was a straight red all day long.

Both have been cited

[Which Tyler]

5 weeks for Kaino
4 weeks for Pointud

[fivepointer]

What! A chest on chest tackle gets a week more than a guy who goes in and deliberately butts another player in the head?

I give up with these disciplinary panels.

[Digby]

What a joke

[fivepointer]

In an unprecedented, highly controversial move, Bath are writing to the organisers of the Heineken Champions Cup demanding a replay of their game against Toulouse last Saturday that they lost by two points.

“I think the game should be replayed,” Bruce Craig, the Bath owner, told The Times, “and we will do what we can to get equity.”

Bath lost the game 20-22. However, the club feels aggrieved on two counts. The final whistle was blown when there were still a few seconds on the clock and when Bath had just won a lineout close to the Toulouse tryline. The game should have been played on and Bath should have been allowed one last crack at winning the game.

[Mikey Brown]

They should arrange to just have one quick lineout before Bath/Toulouse’s next game, rolling over from last week like they do on ‘who wants to be a millionaire?’.