The Rugby Union Thread

koneguitarist

@gassage Scots had to take law into their own hands, as ref was so bad.

camf

Obviously I'm biased, but I think it was pretty close between both teams today, but I'm delighted to see people lining up to stick it to Sexton for being the disgrace he is. Can't Ireland find a better team man for the number 10 jersey and then leave him sitting on the bench for a couple of seasons wishing he'd not been such a brat to ROG and BOD and a money-grabbing wee ***t.

cj73

[quote="tbm;1009127"]Sexton sharing a few words with a Scottish forward at the end. Good deal of nark there.

From my POV Ireland played the ref better. He seemed to change how he viewed the breakdown in the second half. Irish deserved yellow at the end there, but we were the better team of the 80. Comfortably so. [/quote
Yip, better team won.... No argument here

kjdowd

Didn't like sexton's play acting for that yellow at all.

scrumhalf

Come on England!!!!!

koneguitarist

Now an English player in very first tackle made contact with eye area, can we expect a large ban, and where was TMO pointing it out? @lloyd @ gassage

digitalscream

Good ol' Danny Care.

koneguitarist

France sealing play penalty England sealing play and they score a try!

digitalscream

Jeez. Not only do England appear to have forgotten everything they've learned in the last couple of months, they're actually forgetting the basic requirement of holding on to the frigging ball.

God bless Danny Care.

kjdowd

Nervy from England, especially in defence. They aren't wholly comfortable with this system yet and France have sort of turned up. Lucky that Vakatawa doesn't know how wide the pitch is or we might be in trouble.

koneguitarist

Why oh why can we not have consistency in reffing!

kjdowd

France should be livid with those two tries. Bloody soft to concede at this level, especially the Cole one. Mind you, God bless Care and Cole and ropey French defence.

digitalscream

koneguitarist said:

Why oh why can we not have consistency in reffing!

Because then you and @lloyd wouldn't have been able to add about 15 pages to this thread on your own...

kjdowd

Quite easy to tell who the international coach is out of Cheika, Guscott and Castaignede. Love Cheika. He talks so much sense.

snakemanStoo

koneguitarist said:

Why oh why can we not have consistency in reffing!

Because referees aren't soulless machines but humans who interpret the same phrase in a slightly different way 

tbm

Guscotts defence of Owens decision was so one eyed. Obstruction all day long.

digitalscream

Right, that's better from England. Fast ball off the back of the scrum, clean break and straight in.

C'mon lads, that's all you need to do. Like the commentary team said...stop trying to play for penalties, and start playing the ball.

digitalscream

...and <facepalm>.

kjdowd

digitalscream;1009253" said:

...and .

England are panicking when there is no need to. Occasion has really got to them. Thanks God we've taken our chances (even if they have been soft tries).

koneguitarist

snakemanStoo said:

koneguitarist said:

Why oh why can we not have consistency in reffing!

Because referees aren't soulless machines but humans who interpret the same phrase in a slightly different way 

Laws are there for both teams, I can understand a ref missing something, but not looking at same offence by two teams and coming to different outcomes!