Sport in general

  • The video referee and it’s place in sport

    I’ve never been a huge fan of video referee. I’ve always thought in sport that what goes around comes around and it all tends to even up over time. But with so much money involved in sport these days I admit that it’s becoming increasingly important to make sure these decisions are right. So I’ve grudgenly accepted that there is a place for video referring and providing assistance to the person on the field who has to make the decision in a blink of an eye. Recently down under the biggest event in the Rugby league calendar was held, namely the State of Origin. In this event there was a…

  • Why as sportsman are we so thick and find it hard to adapt

    So we had our first rugby competition game yesterday and lost 14-11. The game itself was pretty uneventful. One try apiece a couple of penalties. However some things I found so frustrating was how hard it is for players to respond to what is being said. The game started as it meant to go on with a penalty conceded by our team after only about 2 minutes of play. After about 20mins of play we had not got out of our half and probably was on the end of a penalty count of about 10-4. About 3 times it was said by various members, including the captain, coaches and senior…