Quote Originally Posted by life on mars View Post
Trying to match rugby with football is not that simple, in Rugby we only see the hand picked select few from Europe and the southern hemisphere .

In football its 100's more applying thier trade , almost twicec a week, analysed by millions and TV to death, if we got the same intense scrutinity of rugby , I do wonder with simalir exposure week in an out , how saintly the game of rugby would appear .
I'm not saying rugby is saintly, but the media exposure football gets is damaging to the game. How often will you see a referee, scheduled to referee the big Manchester derby next week, referee WBA v Swansea completely differently. How many referees did Fergie influence? I'd say that, if rugby referees were put under the same microscope week after week, then their performances would suffer.