Sonja drama

[didds]

Next week we'll have more 6N and more unusual referee decisions, I'll be interested to see if interviewers ask about them. Bet they do. They should do

and when they are imediately straight batted we will then see if they cntinue to ask the same question over and over again. We'll see if the interviewers have learned anything - or indeed their remit is not to elecit anything of real interest, but merely to stir sh1t.

We'll see.

[didds]

You haven't specially mentioned the AWJ interview before ? What did you think was particularly stupid about it ?

summat like "Should you have asked the ref to overturn Wales' 1st try".

Sensible? Bwa ha ha ha.

[Dickie E]

and when they are imediately straight batted we will then see if they cntinue to ask the same question over and over again. We'll see if the interviewers have learned anything - or indeed their remit is not to elecit anything of real interest, but merely to stir sh1t.

We'll see.

unrelated but noting 10 years since Didds won "non-referee of the year". Happy anniversary!

[didds]

unrelated but noting 10 years since Didds won "non-referee of the year". Happy anniversary!

henceforth known as "non-referee of the decade" :-)

[Marc Wakeham]

and when they are imediately straight batted we will then see if they cntinue to ask the same question over and over again. We'll see if the interviewers have learned anything - or indeed their remit is not to elecit anything of real interest, but merely to stir sh1t.

We'll see.

Exactly.

[crossref]

So basically that's the nub of the criticism, right ?
Line of questions was reasonable, but once straight batted then she should have moved on more quickly.

Fair enough.

[didds]

Thats it for me, yes.

continuing to bang the drum smacked of desperately trying to court controversy.

[Flish]

It was awkward TV, and a waste of air time for me. Sure, two parties involved in each interview, but the players responses are predictable and can be managed. There’s an argument from some circles that she would be in trouble and not doing her job if she didn’t ask those questions, a point which I get - but there’s ways of asking, and as an experienced interviewer she (and the broadcast team in her ear) should be able to read the room and choose whether to keep fishing or move on.

[Marc Wakeham]

Yep. Correct.

[Dickie E]

So basically that's the nub of the criticism, right ?
Line of questions was reasonable, but once straight batted then she should have moved on more quickly.

Fair enough.

my criticism was quite different but now lost in the mists of time