DaveJ says...

very insightful come back, I hope the view is good up top of that high horse of yours.

Posted 14:38 15th August 2012

DaveJ says...

Sorry princess.

Posted 09:51 10th August 2012

DaveJ says...

So I think we have established that the Steve Walsh fan club on this website don't share a sense of humour between them. Well done fanboys.

Posted 09:09 04th August 2012

Ramage says...

Amazing what you can say to denigrate another human being when you can sit anonymously behind a keyboard and send a post you think is funny but really show you up as a right twit. Note the question asking did that really happen? Geez, we will believe anything that reeks of a possible scandal. Our thirst for this kind of knowledge is true or not is unquenchable. How many of us have blemishes in our past we wouldn't want resurrected or are we all Mother Teresa's? Oh hang on we aren't good enough to ever referee a Super 15 Rugby final, so it doesn't matter nobody would be interested.

Walsh makes some valid points which many people who criticise referees forget, and that is, they can only referee the game that the players produce for them to referee. Yes they can be judged on how they deal with what the players dish up, but players attitude to the game is paramount.

Well done on the appointment and I hope all goes well for you Steve.

Posted 04:32 04th August 2012

startledwombat says...

Agreed. Mr Walsh has improved himself considerably by becoming an Australian - who'd have thought? - although it was understandably traumatic at the time.

Time for us to move on. After all, Mr Walsh has.

In this column the more useful discussion is about what the referee is seeing, or is not seeing.

I would hope the ball doesn't go into the scrum under the Number 8's feet. I've also never been confident of Walsh's ability to read who is doing the dirty in the front rows.

Posted 23:57 03rd August 2012

Kiwikev says...

@ DaveJ

Are you from Oz like Walsh?

Posted 21:16 03rd August 2012

cayzam says...

C',mon DaveJ, that sort of comment is lazy, cowardly and unnecessary. Steve Walsh has turned himself around, and his efforts have been recognised and rewarded - a top referee and a decent bloke by all accounts.

Posted 16:49 03rd August 2012

DaveJ says...

Well done to Steve Walsh for getting those comments out before swigging from a bottle of whiskey and punching the head off the reporter.

Posted 16:04 03rd August 2012