slovenian men drew 2-2 with spanish men in a close game...

chief ref binned the slovenians twice for one of their players bobbing his head under the water to watch the game while in the subs bench. i dunno, is it in the rules that they have to have their heads up? its bad enough that they arent allowed to interchange after goals and have to wait for players to sub out, but even if the ruling was correct, geez it's anal in the extreme isn't it? surely it should be changed if thats the rule.

france men played belgium, score was 4-0 at halftime but blew out a bit more in the end, very strong start to the game from belgium in the opening minutes i thought, and they had some good strong passages of play.

turkey men also played italy this avo and won 9-0 (i think) ...the game was a very strange due to the fact that there were no hugely contentious or blatantly wrong refs calls or timekeepers stuff-ups or organisers boo-hoos.

they were playing national anthems in the uwr today, i dont know what it means... and one of the turkish uwr guys had some guy knee him in the chest and break his ribs. nice.

tomorrow is the start of seeding and playoff games for the mens grade, not sure exactly who is what seed yet... women still have a few rr games to play i think. following day must be finals i guess.

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it's more polite on the grating than on the subs bench