Season wrap up
Oct. 27th, 2011 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chickenfeetThe rugby season in Ontario is all but over with the finals of various cup competitions on Saturday and university and college playoffs over the next few weeks. Thus, last night we had the TDRRS season wrap up meeting in Markham. I had figured out how to get there by public transit but found myself marooned at Unionville GO station by a York Region transit strike. It was a $20 cab ride to my destination rather than the 50c the bus would have cost! Fortunately I got a lift home.
Apart from the usual stuff we watched some World Cup highlights from a refereeing point of view. For those who care about such things there was unanimity that Alain Rolland got the Warburton red card right and that Craig Joubert had a shocker in the final.
I also discovered that apparently CBC got conned into a live national broadcast of the recent Canada vs USA Rugby League match. League is played by a handful of people in Canada (I might have met one once) while Union is played by tens of thousands. CBC apparently thought they were showing Union despite the fact that the Canadian team was on the other side of the world competing in the World Cup. If there is intelligent life at CBC television it hides itself remarkably well.
Apart from the usual stuff we watched some World Cup highlights from a refereeing point of view. For those who care about such things there was unanimity that Alain Rolland got the Warburton red card right and that Craig Joubert had a shocker in the final.
I also discovered that apparently CBC got conned into a live national broadcast of the recent Canada vs USA Rugby League match. League is played by a handful of people in Canada (I might have met one once) while Union is played by tens of thousands. CBC apparently thought they were showing Union despite the fact that the Canadian team was on the other side of the world competing in the World Cup. If there is intelligent life at CBC television it hides itself remarkably well.
