Public Address | Cafe | Field Theory: Part of the Game https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288296#post288296 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288296#post288296 Here is a good first person perspective on the game. The noise you hear is pretty much all I heard during the whole game. I can imagine if you have players on the side they’d have to yell really loud for you to hear them, though. The guy who got… ]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:39:53 +1200 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288295#post288295 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288295#post288295 I used to take my daughter to tournaments and it was always very noisy. But not much of a spectator sport.

Noisy? Really? What sort of noise? The signal thingo?

I played it once. It's certainly engaging when you're in there, but nothing to look at. Very strange sport, most…

]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:35:52 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288292#post288292 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288292#post288292 It’s quite inspiring to hear people sledging each other with actual wit.
And once upon a time that might have even described Parliament....

]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:17:22 +1200 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288282#post288282 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288282#post288282 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:45:23 +1200 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288277#post288277 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288277#post288277 And it was bloody funny, and bloody good fun.

Indeed, without profanity and homophobia, you actually have to say something witty. It's quite inspiring to hear people sledging each other with actual wit.

]]> Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:23:42 +1200 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288276#post288276 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288276#post288276 I would have raised my eyebrows under water.

You can pretty much yell anything you like underwater and get away with it. It's very therapeutic, actually. Talking audibly underwater is quite an art. You have to do it with your mouth shut.

]]> Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:19:52 +1200 Euan Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288274#post288274 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288274#post288274 "It was common when I played waterpolo for penalties to be given for even raising one's eyebrows about a referee's call."

I would have raised my eyebrows under water.

]]> Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:34:59 +1200 Gareth Davidson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288263#post288263 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288263#post288263 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:46:54 +1200 George Darroch https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288213#post288213 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288213#post288213
It was common when I played waterpolo for penalties to be given for even raising one's eyebrows about a referee's call. To say something about it was considered disrespect and could easily result in ejection for the whole game. To actively harass the referee almost never happened, and in the…

]]> Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:57:10 +1200 Yamis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288183#post288183 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288183#post288183 Slightly, but maybe not really, off-topic: watching the (FTA) buildup to French test, and the (female, not that it matters maybe) presenter tells a *funny* story about how the guy she was interviewing liked to wind people up, and he was throwing bread at a lunch until his captain took… ]]> Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:47:34 +1200 Yamis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288182#post288182 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288182#post288182 My rule of thumb is, if I fuck up, the players are allowed to swear within some reason, because they have the right to expect that I do a better job. I completely missed an Auckland player that threw an elbow the other week and right clocked a guy from… ]]> Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:41:32 +1200 Ben McNicoll https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288179#post288179 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288179#post288179 Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:00:50 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288174#post288174 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288174#post288174 adding fuel...
What do you call dicks then?
isn't a bundle of dicks called a fagot (Faggot Brit)
or was it sticks?
: – )

hannibal lictor...?
perhaps a bundle of dicks would not be dissimilar
to a bundle of rods with a projecting axe head...
a.k.a. fasces – which…

]]> Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:18:08 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288167#post288167 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288167#post288167 Way down the list of things that's fucked up about Eden Park's "it's just part of the game" attitude is, well... it's pretty damn insulting to straight male rugby fans.

I have plenty of straight male rugby fan friends whose default setting isn't "homophobic, misogynistic, racist dickbag" and, en mass,…

]]> Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:49:25 +1200 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288166#post288166 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288166#post288166 Well mate, so long as you ref you’ll continue to be called way worse, and regularly.

My rule of thumb is, if I fuck up, the players are allowed to swear within some reason, because they have the right to expect that I do a better job. I completely missed…

]]> Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:39:42 +1200 Yamis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288163#post288163 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288163#post288163 We've gone through this at some length in my thread, but basically, you're wrong. Eden Park is a far more civil and safer place than it was 10 or 20 years ago. Many women attend games. I can't recall the last time I saw behaviour like that in question. Which… ]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:48:57 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288146#post288146 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288146#post288146 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:30:19 +1200 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288144#post288144 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288144#post288144 But I will say this, I have spent a long time removing gendered insults from my general lexicon

What do you call dicks then?

]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:09:00 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288141#post288141 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288141#post288141 the good guys swear too

fuck yes

]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:29:55 +1200 Hadyn Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288139#post288139 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288139#post288139 Please be polite to referees. Rugby, like many sports has terrible problems with how referees are treated on sports fields at all levels on weekends. Many of them are unpaid volunteers just trying to make the sport happen as best they can.

This is an excellent point well made and…

]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:20:41 +1200 Hadyn Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288137#post288137 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288137#post288137 civility and politeness have declined in this country

Oh fuck I'm sorry! Nah, I'm not :) But I will say this, I have spent a long time removing gendered insults from my general lexicon. I will use certain ones among friends whom I have known for a long time or…

]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:18:05 +1200 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288134#post288134 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288134#post288134 The language you use in this post is just as bad.

Generic use of "fuckwit" is an equal opportunity profanity and calling someone a "faggot" is homophobic abuse. The latter is several orders of magnitude worse than the former. Your argument is a false equivalence. Also known as "full of…

]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:55:51 +1200 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288133#post288133 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288133#post288133 In terms of abuse of referees at local sports fields the most power is with the referee. No ref = no game. They have to seize it. When I played in the 90s we would get penalised for saying things like "c'mon ref" after a call we didn't like so… ]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:55:05 +1200 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288127#post288127 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288127#post288127 When I played in the 90s we would get penalised for saying things like “c’mon ref” after a call we didn’t like so we pretty much knew not to go there.

It was common when I played waterpolo for penalties to be given for even raising one's eyebrows about a…

]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:45:11 +1200 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288126#post288126 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288126#post288126 Off Stuff

Hard hitting Ozzie Army Chief

"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept"

]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:43:57 +1200 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288123#post288123 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288123#post288123 I'd say it's got better, but it's got a ways to go.

It has absolutely improved. I mean, what's more polite than the "Give us a wave" chant?

]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:33:28 +1200 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288122#post288122 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288122#post288122 The homophobes at Eden park represent one side of how civility and politeness have declined in this country.

Is that true? I'd say it's got better, but it's got a ways to go. Gawd I remember one of the only games of cricket I went to in the 90s there…

]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:28:14 +1200 Yamis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288121#post288121 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288121#post288121 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:13:58 +1200 Martin Connelly https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288118#post288118 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288118#post288118 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:48:02 +1200 Hadyn Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288116#post288116 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288116#post288116 She was at the game with her brother

Hey I don't have time to read the news, just be outraged by it. :P

she was captain of her high school rugby team.
Awesome

]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:30:34 +1200 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288114#post288114 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288114#post288114 Please be polite to referees. Rugby, like many sports has terrible problems with how referees are treated on sports fields at all levels on weekends. Many of them are unpaid volunteers just trying to make the sport happen as best they can.

And if it's OK at Eden Park or…

]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:19:30 +1200 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288105#post288105 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288105#post288105 hopefully someone pointed out that the thugs who said homophobic slurs were "part of the game" were clearly wrong because they were saying them to a gay couple.

She was at the game with her brother, not her girlfriend, but the reason they were wrong is even more compelling: she…

]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:50:07 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288104#post288104 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-part-of-the-game/?p=288104#post288104 Discussion from blog post.

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