Posts by Steven Taylor43

Jack Kelly5 said:Exactly.
When the refs are playing favorites for the home team, you're going to see a lot more bias on the field.
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It’s the same story in every single sport—those split-second, controversial calls tend to lean toward the home crowd.
Whether you're talking about boxing or the UFC, a challenger basically has to outperform the champ by at least 10% just to secure the belt if the fight is close; if the judges can't decide who took the round, they default to the champion. That's just an unwritten rule of the game. And honestly, handball is no different.

If we want to be brutally honest and face reality, the officiating has actually swung in our favor more often than not—against Egypt, against Spain, and against Norway—but our players simply lack that winning mentality required to capitalize on those moments.

Some people in this thread are acting like they just fell off Mars...

Go ahead, try to find me even three decisions that went in favor of the Frenchman. Don't give me those flimsy, questionable calls; I want to see where the Norwegians were directly cheated out of a result. If anyone can actually produce that, I'll personally exile myself from this forum.

Only losers, total failures, and mental wrecks bother showing up to a trial. Besides, how
are things even handled here? When it comes to home-field advantage, the rules aren't applied the same way. Obviously, ambiguous situations
always swing in favor of the home team, but you won't see anyone actually pushing back or making a real fight out of it

So, quit talking nonsense.

Watching these Frenchmen play is pure entertainment🙏 Total masters, honestly.

If Bergerud hadn't put in such a hell of a defensive performance, we would've easily walked away looking at a double-digit deficit by the end.

They’re going to be dominating everything for years to come; I can already see them cruising through the streets of Washington, D.C. in exactly
one year's time. That is, assuming we somehow work a miracle and make it to the finals.

France👍

Even with such a pathetic defense, they still managed to claw their way back to a lead against
Norway. Honestly, all that hype was completely wasted.☕

Aside from that mindless sprinting to exploit an unset defense,
they have absolutely zero tactical depth; once the opposition settles in, they just fall apart.

I sincerely hope this kind of handball philosophy doesn't become the mainstream standard
for the sport. Like someone else already pointed out, it's just a disaster...