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Listed below are comments made by DaveParade between Monday, 29th June 2009 and Wednesday, 1st July 2009.

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Your questions for Martyn Williams 7:15pm on 01 Jul 2009 There has been many journalists, and members of the public who have described the Lions as an outdated concept primarily due to the test results so far.

How has the experience felt, and how would you reflect on the critics misplaced (but entitled) opinion of the British and Irish Lions - how would you describe being a Lion? British and Irish players say that it is the pinnacle, and I would have to agree in terms of the achievement, but individualy and within the confines of the squad and Lions ethos, what has it ment to you?

Best of luck to all on Saturday we'll be there with you every inch of the way - Never above you, Never below you......Always by your side.
Have officials turned a blind eye to Burger? 7:12pm on 30 Jun 2009 Fluety Roberts partnership for me - Darcy cannot play 13 - I don't understand why, as centres should be able to play in both berths - but Fluety is a bit more creative and should make for a decent replacement for BOD with Roberts moving to 13 and Fluety at 12. Lets hope that both sets of players keep there tempers in check and let the (hopefully high) standard of rugby be the dominating feature after the game.
Have officials turned a blind eye to Burger? 2:23pm on 30 Jun 2009 Re my previous post - it appears I too am guilty of being a bit quick into the fray having seen one of your later posts phil bok - I was just annoyed with what had initialy been laid out by one of your compatriots.
Have officials turned a blind eye to Burger? 2:09pm on 30 Jun 2009 308 Phill bok - read the remainder of the posts PAL!

Nothing sore here mate, you wont have seen Jostl13 initial comment that generated the debate in the first instance because the moderators had to remove it due to it's nature and the subsequent comments he made were also removed - again due their content.

If you had cast your impatient eye on the rest of the blog I had allready explained the reasoning, not prepared to stand by and allow someone to mock the severity of some of the injuries that were incured (and that is passing judgement for both parties involved as I can and have conceeded that there is no place in rugby for this type of behaviour from both teams).

What your doing is deflecting attention from the heart of the issue and that is malicious violenece in rugby - theres no place for it, and there was one SA opinion here (Unlike the majority) who was advocating it with his controversy - where are you going to fall Phill - do we need to pencil you in with the ignorant? Or can you also conceed that burger was out of order in potentialy blinding someone.
Have officials turned a blind eye to Burger? 01:50am on 30 Jun 2009 The postings arein relation to unsporting dangerous and reckless conduct - I have no complaints regarding the results all is fair in love and war - but there were no bad performances in either test from either side.

The biggest culprits havee been the match officals - especialy the NH refs - Wayne Barnes, Berdos and even Nigel Owens (!) - with their management of the game. Barnes in particular really disapointed.
Have officials turned a blind eye to Burger? 11:27pm on 29 Jun 2009 There certainly needs to be more stringent guidlines on this matter and set time periods as opposed to deemeing what a relevant time frame is for punishment.

Regardless, the games officials are the ones that need to be more aware and more assured in the decision making within the laws, their interpretation of laws is far to varied, it's no wonder the players are never sure where they are regarding whats acceptable - advantage is another ambiguous area. My own opinion of it is that if you have gained ground, you have gained an advantage, where some refs play a certain period of time of posession etc.

ANyway, point being is that some things have to be fixed sentence (for a better way to describe it) and done with conviction safe in the knowledge that the decision is made as per the rules - this isn't wendyball, you don't have the players crowding around and verbaly abusing the referee so there is no real intimidation for the referee to be influenced into making the wrong decision.
Have officials turned a blind eye to Burger? 10:59pm on 29 Jun 2009 The referee was present at the scrum, and all French referees are particularly vigilent in this area. Do you think that Jones was boring into Mitwaria?

I must confess that the bulk of the issue in the first test was due to the lack of powere behind Vickery - the selectors got that wrong and all credit to the SA forwards they exploited the weekness.
Have officials turned a blind eye to Burger? 10:16pm on 29 Jun 2009 I guess the best way to resolve it would be to ask the citing official as he is the person who had put him forward for dangerous play.
Have officials turned a blind eye to Burger? 10:07pm on 29 Jun 2009 What are the press labelling him in SA??? Is it P.Divvy?
Have officials turned a blind eye to Burger? 9:45pm on 29 Jun 2009 Peace from me to :0)

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