Three refs taste the dirt in one weekend of rugby
While the Super Rugby Picks of the Week for the last two rounds is still being prepared, it's a good time to get this amusing clip up that shows a quite rare occurrence from last weekend.
Over the years whenever a ref has been knocked over it's usually been posted here on Rugbydump. Why feature it, you ask? Simple really - because it's funny.
Obviously nobody wants to see a referee injured, and when it's a serious knock, the due respect is shown, naturally. Players should also be doing everything they can to avoid making contact with the ref, but when it's just a case of him losing his feet or getting an accidental shove from behind, it brings a smile to most faces.
I'm not sure why that is, but every time a ref gets physical, there's a reaction from the crowd, the commentators, and the fans watching at home on TV.
It can't really be explained, as it's just a guy getting knocked over. More often that not though, that man is the focus of all the negative energy and tension that's boiling up in the players, coaches, and yes, you. We've all done it. If our team is playing badly and they don't get the bounce of the ball, who is the best person to blame? You guessed it.
So I suppose that is why when they take a knock, the majority of people will find it mildy titillating. Yes, titillating. That's the kind of broad spectrum of vocabulary you get to experience if you make it to the sixth paragraph. Most site visitors have no idea.
Keith Brown, Stuart Dickinson (crowd favourite), and Ian Smith all managed to get themselves in a tangle this past weekend, being bowled over by various players, but managing to hop swiftly to their feet and pretend it never happened. Three in one weekend must be some kind of record. A fairly trivial and meaningless record, but a record nonetheless.
Time: 01:44
Over the years whenever a ref has been knocked over it's usually been posted here on Rugbydump. Why feature it, you ask? Simple really - because it's funny.
Obviously nobody wants to see a referee injured, and when it's a serious knock, the due respect is shown, naturally. Players should also be doing everything they can to avoid making contact with the ref, but when it's just a case of him losing his feet or getting an accidental shove from behind, it brings a smile to most faces.
I'm not sure why that is, but every time a ref gets physical, there's a reaction from the crowd, the commentators, and the fans watching at home on TV.
It can't really be explained, as it's just a guy getting knocked over. More often that not though, that man is the focus of all the negative energy and tension that's boiling up in the players, coaches, and yes, you. We've all done it. If our team is playing badly and they don't get the bounce of the ball, who is the best person to blame? You guessed it.
So I suppose that is why when they take a knock, the majority of people will find it mildy titillating. Yes, titillating. That's the kind of broad spectrum of vocabulary you get to experience if you make it to the sixth paragraph. Most site visitors have no idea.
Keith Brown, Stuart Dickinson (crowd favourite), and Ian Smith all managed to get themselves in a tangle this past weekend, being bowled over by various players, but managing to hop swiftly to their feet and pretend it never happened. Three in one weekend must be some kind of record. A fairly trivial and meaningless record, but a record nonetheless.
Time: 01:44
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By Anonymous, at May 26, 2011 11:53 pm
lol.. someone knock over that Anonymous first posted please. Thanks.
The best part is the mic adding the special effects :)
By Laz, at May 26, 2011 11:58 pm
Well atleast the refs making more of an effort to tackle the opposition players than some of the defenders in the S15 this year ....
By Saracens4Prem, at May 27, 2011 12:14 am
^ Get a life you sad cock...
By Anonymous, at May 27, 2011 12:30 am
Serves them bloody right
By Anonymous, at May 27, 2011 12:31 am
Haha, the writeup for this post was just as hilarious as the clip!
Thanks for the chuckel, RD.
By fry, at May 27, 2011 12:45 am
haha the commentators! "he's a good boy isn't he?"
By Anonymous, at May 27, 2011 12:49 am
That last one just tripped over a player. This is why I like doing college womens games. They usually just bounce off me.
By Ref, at May 27, 2011 12:49 am
This would never happen in the NH...
*joke*
By Mike, at May 27, 2011 12:50 am
Saracens4Premiership, even players in your own league openly take the piss out of your team and how it gets success by being boring.
Translate that style of play to the international stage and watch how well it works.
What the hell would an Englishman know about good rugby?
By Anonymous, at May 27, 2011 1:19 am
People responding to Saracens4Prem, please don't. It's clear he's just pathetically trolling this site to get a rise out of people.
The suggestion would be to just leave it be and comment on something else.
By Lt. Dan, at May 27, 2011 1:42 am
Stu Dickinson deserves to have his throat stomped in.
Oh and Saracens - your team is made up mostly of B grade South Africans who were largely average in Super rugby. loser.
By Anonymous, at May 27, 2011 2:36 am
hehehe titillating...
By Anonymous, at May 27, 2011 2:47 am
now, everyone hates you Saracens4Prem
By Hasif, at May 27, 2011 3:22 am
I suspect Saracens4Prem is looking to stir up trouble....(if he's even a sarries fan or English).....Trolls, damn trolls!!! Just.ignore.the.bloody.trolls!!
P.S. Thought the write-up to this vid was even more amusing!!
By Alexander, at May 27, 2011 3:28 am
This might be one of my favourite new mini series. Love how the crowd gives the ref a bit of shtick too lol
I love the first one with the stormers, he's so confused when Bekker gets the ball, hopes to hell the ball wont go his way, but it does, he misses the forward pass and gets romped...heeehehehehe
Great writing too RD. A+
By Canada for RWC11, at May 27, 2011 3:39 am
Anonymous said...Stu Dickinson deserves to have his throat stomped in.
Childish comment, anonymous tough guy.
By denton, at May 27, 2011 4:59 am
Titillating!
Haha nice to see the refs getting the knock and moving on (fforball refs would kept on the floor for a while), this reminds me of the Six Nations game (England v I don't remember who) when the ref got out injured! It was just hilarious!
Cheers
By Juggernauter, at May 27, 2011 5:01 am
I meant "football", of course
By Juggernauter, at May 27, 2011 5:04 am
notice how all of the accidents happened after the 70 min mark. These refs need to shape up!
By Anonymous, at May 27, 2011 6:19 am
I saw all of these live, and couldn't quite believe they all happened in a single weekend. Talk about the stars aligning! Keith Brown was lucky not to end up at the bottom of the ruck, as that could have been nasty.
And re: Saracens4Prem – it's Internet 101: please, don't feed the troll.
By Ben, at May 27, 2011 6:32 am
With so many site visitors (growing daily, fyi), there's bound to be a few trouble causers. It's the nature of the beast. Try ignore it and if anything is overly offensive, drop us an email and let RD deal with it. Getting in a flame war here is fairly pointless. Cheers
By Greiffel, at May 27, 2011 9:00 am
So I suppose that is why when they take a knock, the majority of people will find it mildy titillating. Yes, titillating. That's the kind of broad spectrum of vocabulary you get to experience if you make it to the sixth paragraph. Most site visitors have no idea.
BEST PARAGRAPH EVER!
By Tom, at May 27, 2011 9:53 am
Fantastic clips. Genius copy.
Rugbydump.com - Officially* the best site on the Interweb!
*FACT
By Anonymous, at May 27, 2011 10:00 am
Seen a referee break their leg rather nastily after he got in the way of two opposing forwards.
They gotta be quick on their feet if them refs are gonna get up close to them rucks.
By Anonymous, at May 27, 2011 10:34 am
brilliant write up RD!
By Anonymous, at May 27, 2011 10:59 am
write up was very amusing!made me laugh anyway
By Leeners93, at May 27, 2011 11:42 am
See even the refs are hard in rugby, those would have had a football player calling for a stretcher.
By Anonymous, at May 27, 2011 12:30 pm
Worst one ive seen was in a rugby league game. ref copped a knee in the head from a 110kg forward in full flight. nasty stuff
By Anonymous, at May 27, 2011 12:32 pm
In the first clip, might help if the ref wore a totally different colour jersey from the players.
Just sayin'
Side note;
Coffee and RD. A great start to the work day!
By Old7, at May 27, 2011 12:56 pm
i'm sure that player changed direction and aimed directly at Stuart Dickinson...
Can't blame him either
By Anonymous, at May 27, 2011 1:19 pm
Positively titillating. Thanks for sharing
By john, at May 27, 2011 3:12 pm
Stu Dickeison got pushed into the path of the Crusaders player by one of the Chiefs' players. I couldn't read his number, but it looked like a second rower just from his height. He was in a good position otherwise.
By Bobby Nations, at May 27, 2011 3:48 pm
watching rugby whilst taking a dump! Couldn't be a more appropriately named website. God I love wireless internet.
Oh and the vid...well done refs, straight back to your feet after the tackle, great play :)
By jimbo1, at May 27, 2011 5:12 pm
Thumb up RD. Writeup and post.
By Maximus, at May 27, 2011 6:26 pm
absolutely fantastic, enjoyed the video, but most of all a comments section without the arguements - just like the good old days :P oh and cheers for those who drew attention to the write up, i wont be skiping over those in future!!! thanks RD
By Anonymous, at May 27, 2011 7:21 pm
Anonymous above
I believe this is the kneeing you were referee-ing to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_PGq6Q5fKk
By RememberTheMer, at May 28, 2011 2:22 am
Most of those seemed to happen when the attacking team went back inside suddenly towards the ruck. Refs caught off guard, good on them for getting up and not stopping play.
By Gary, at May 28, 2011 12:08 pm
Do you get an extra point for hitting the ref in the SH?????? ;-)
I like the 2nd hit, how the players brushed aside the ref.... I thought first a bit of an elbow charge...but not actually...just a gentle pushed from a 2nd row (???) it seems.
3rd ref shows good example on how to protect yourself in a ruck and most importantly how to quickly moved out....
Life is tough for some ref down South it seems...definetly the SH players fault, the pace of the game is too fast. They should move up North ;-)
By Flipje, at May 28, 2011 12:31 pm
before I watched the clip, gotta say I really enjoyed the write up for the clip, found it very..."titillating"
By Anonymous, at May 28, 2011 12:59 pm
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