Showboating?

Firstly he was down at the other end of the pitch from the scoreboard and would not have been aware of the exact time.

Second. There were a lot of stops in the second half for video decisions. It wasn't clear to ANYONE if the clock had been stopped every time. Stadium clocks often aren't. there could have been 5 minutes left on the clock and a four point lead would have given us a very nervous finish!

Third. The defenders trying to stop Halley more or less stopped when he crossed the line in the corner. There was plenty of room for him to improve the angle for the kicker.

Fourth. Deacon was off the pitch and we'd already missed one conversion after he left.

Is that showboating or are you making a glib comment on something you haven't even seen?

Yeah but doesn't the game continue until the next time play stops? be that a tackle, ball goes out of play or a try is scored?

You want to stop watching rugby games in your dreams.


The hooter can go at any time. The game doesn't finish until the next tackle is made after that hooter (or the ball is dead). If it goes during a tackle, that is the end.

I could remind you of a certain Wide to West try, but I know we're all sick of hearing about that one!

Natural a winger wants to maximise the kicking angle if easily (unopposed) to do so. This is what he coached to do.
Not unusual that in the heat of battle that a winger is not looking at the clock rather than where his position is and who is gonna pass him the ball.
So.... he did his job as a winger.
What risk did he take without any defended in his way?

This thread proves, if proof were needed, (it isn't!) that some people are never satisfied but will pick fault with anything. Doesn't alter the fact that it was extremely good and clever play by Halley, who at a critical time kept a great position to take the pass, and kept his head to coolly make the extras a formality.

Can't believe anyone who watches the game actually thinks it ends literally as the hooter sounds

Picking a full back for the Bulls is a bit like picking an England wicketkeeper. All of the candidates have their weaknesses, are likely to do some good and bad stuff and its probably best just to go with whoever's in the best form.

Personally, I think he may be useful coming off the bench at Hooker whilst Wagga is injured. His defence is usaually solid, his passing is reasonable, and his pace might be useful running from the play the ball.

Agreed. That really is nitpicking of the very highest order.

He could have been whisked into space by aliens in their rocket ship. Pretty sure I've seen that happen in the documentary on Jesus 'Life of Brian'.

It's a point. Anything could have happened.
A meteor could have hit him.

..but as long as he didn't drop the ball that would still be a try as soon as he came into contact with the ground.

The headline writers would prefer a comet to a meteor surely?

[urlhttp://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/images/halley.html[/url

Technically, no, it couldn't. Meteors burn up and vaporise in the upper atmosphere.

A chunk which is solid enough to make ground level is called a meteorite.

Halley is ing the poll

Have you been voting with all fifteen of your logins to corrupt the vote Mick?

Very good

So that's a yes then

I voted just the once

What you meant is;

With the speed of the impact, they'd probably have to go to the video ref so that he could do it frame-by-frame.

It is not impossible to be hit by a meteorite. Only a dozen or so make it to Earth's surface each day so your odds of being hit are vanishingly small, but not non-existent. A certain Mrs. Hewlett Hodges of Alabama is the only known human to have been struck by a meteorite, although it did go through her house roof and bounced off her radio first.

It is not recorded whether she caught it, or knocked on.

Platty would have caught it

For some reason brought to mind the story of the famous NFL wide receiver who was passing by a skyscraper on fire, and a woman was at a window with her baby. She was reluctant to drop the baby to the crowd of onlookers, but seeing who it was, she let go, and sure enough the wide receiver caught it cleanly. The crowd cheered, and he went on a little celebratory run around holding the baby up, this got the crowd going even louder, until he spiked it . . .

You have actually got me in hysterics