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		<title>SoCal DI Club Playoff Picture ... Almost</title>
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			<title>DoyleMcPoyle says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[By "emotional banter" are you referring to statements like: - "...lets also not pretend the incident was just a guy walking up and punching someone. They were both doing some talking" which equates words with assault? - Or "Sometimes you run ur mouth to the wrong guy and he shuts it for you"? - "sometimes if you start mouthing off you get punched in the mouth. The severity of the injury can sometimes be harsh but at the end of the day, avoidable." - "If he was a Ref he would have 1. shut his mouth, Now he has Wires shutting it for him." I'm sure it's not universal, but unless these statements are from Santa Monica sock puppets, these appear to be the opinions of some Blackjack people. So forgive me if I read this and conclude that there is a thuggish element to this club. How would you interpret these statements? Are these the only four people on the club that feel this way?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>DoyleMcPoyle</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:05:45 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>RC says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Doyle - from your response and your comments you like many others do not have the facts and continue to place blame and negative qoutations with incorrect facts and poor judgement. The Las Vegas Blackjacks do NOT have a history of violance nor is their any past history of repeat cards on the field or off. We are here to discuss if you would like to contact thru our site so you can hear the truth and not the emotional banter that has been passed thru social media. We are here for the better of Rugby and will continue our Youth and Club teams, as with all set backs in life we will take the positive and learn and become stonger. 2011 is gone but 2012 is another year and we will be here in strength and as gentlemen.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>RC</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:26:27 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>DoyleMcPoyle says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Good for the Vegas players for showing restraint. To their credit, the AR never felt unsafe when under the posts following an opposition try. But after all that's happened, the club's leadership should step up and show that the club respects match officials. If that means keeping your mouth shut for 80 minutes, then so be it. Or maybe, if that's too difficult, it's finding a respectful way of discussing the matter. With the reputation that Vegas has established over the years (this incident, other abuse of referees, people coming off the sideline to fight), the club leadership needs to step up and set clear standards of behavior. This club has lost the right to be given the benefit of the doubt, and if it wants another reputation will have to be on much better than average behavior for some time. Fair or not, that's reality.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>DoyleMcPoyle</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:21:41 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>JMLV9 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[And how has LV not been on good behavior? Because the coach was in the AR's ear? 2 examples from last week where the AR watched an opposing player REPEATEDLY KICKED a LV player in a ruck 15 ft from the AR, nothing was said. Again 5ft from the AR a LV player was choked and the AR did nothing. Of course the coach will be upset. Now the players are in a position where they cant defend themselves without the entire team being thrown put of the league. At no point did an LV player retaliate, how is that now being on good behavior?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>JMLV9</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:34:49 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>DoyleMcPoyle says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I don't know...if it's me, and all this had happen, maybe I try to stay on good behavior for the remainder of the year. So what was said that was so horrible? Did Sitake feel threatened? He was surrounded by 14 of his friends, so that's not likely. Maybe there were words, but one guy took it to violence. Just one. But don't worry, the other guy's rugby career is over too.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>DoyleMcPoyle</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:20:13 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>JMLV9 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Doylemvpoley- I'm not on here justifying the guy getting his face broken, but to give him a pass because he got injured is wrong. Still the LV player shouldn't have resorted to violence. The club immediately banned him for life and I guarantee you ever player is pissed and embarrassed about what happened. Again he didn't just randomly walk up and punch a guy, much more to the story than that. As is the case with every rugby team I have ever been on I did not know the assailants full name, just what we called him. The president took it upon himself to get all his information and report him. That is a fact. He also did not place blame only on the victim, but wanted acknowledgement of what happened. Just because he was hurt doesn't mean he's 100% innocent. As for the AR's. They need to open their mouths and assist the ref, not just stand with a flag. They have been useless. The coach berating them is a combination of them not doing anything and him being an Irish prick.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>JMLV9</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 09:27:25 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>DoyleMcPoyle says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[@Tim T - I think the Vegas guys posting here have done enough to perpetuate the image that the club is a bunch of thugs. Talking about a guy now having wires to keep his mouth shut? Justifying a guy's vision possibly being permanently impaired by crying about him talking? Sorry...but unless JMLV9 and the others are SM sock puppets, you can't blame Santa Monica or the media for that image. And from what I've seen of the club leadership, including their president blaming the victim, lying that he didn't know the assailant's name, and their coach continuing to berate ARs (real ones) throughout games, this decision had a lot more to do with a club out of control than with one piece of filth. The fact that the club's rank and file comes on hear to defend that piece of filth pretty much cements it. LA has a right to feel aggrieved. Their pretty much the only ones.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>DoyleMcPoyle</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 01:17:10 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Tim T says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I think the problem is that it has been portrayed in the media with quotes from SM that Vegas tried to hide the identity of the attacker from SM. That's what's gone out in the (limited) media reports, and what has been reported. No one ever heard anything from Vegas about their side of events and they have been labeled as a band of thugs. We've all seen the comments on here. I think it's irresponsible journalism to be honest with you. Do you think it's possible that the events portrayed to SCRFU and USA Rugby could be different and that's why USA overturned SCRFU's sanction?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tim T</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:29:38 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>TRack says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I was talking about the the whole country, its not all about LV. And yes that is great that they have 80 youth players. And they probably will keep playing because they probably come from a rugby family, or have been playing for a while. I was speaking about other kids who could potentially become rugby players who don't come from a rugby back round around the whole country, not just LV. And yes hockey is an aggressive deadly sport sometimes, but it is a professional sport that creates a lot of revenue and it's not going away. On the other hand rugby is an emerging sport who has always struggled to shine in the US. People not familiar with the sport already think we're nuts. And how is this malicious publicity from SM. The guy broke another person's face. Not with a tackle, not in a collision, but with fists and kicks. Any other club would be just as upset.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>TRack</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:59:25 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>ALo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[BTW attendance and participation with the Las Vegas Rugby Academy has not been effected by this incident. I'm pretty sure this incident didn't make any form of media outlet except rugby mag and possibly a few others. Compare that with the foul play by the ice hockey player Chara who broke an opponents neck... Look at the publicity that received, will that discourage parents from sending their kids to play hockey?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>ALo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:13:10 --500</pubDate>
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