I love the sound of Farrell bleatingSome very sore losers this evening, get over yourselves.
Does your mother-in-law know your opinion of her?
I wouldn't go that far....it's obviously going to depend on which referee we can get in the finalAll I can say is that I'm looking forward to watching Wale's performance in the next World Cup Final as, obviously, they're now favourites to win it.
NZ and SA are sometimes watching a Northern Hemisphere side rising up in the 4 year World Cup interim period; not this time. Not sure about France being contenders yet, but the 'home' Nations are way off the mark.All I can say is that I'm looking forward to watching Wale's performance in the next World Cup Final as, obviously, they're now favourites to win it.
Might be tempting fate but Wales have not picked up a card yet. I agree that we've been lucky this season but we've also played pretty well, not incurred a big penalty count, played the refs well, taken our chances and, although against most expectations (including mine), probably deserve to be where we are. France are still the best team on paper but, with the way things are going, Wales should meet France to play for the Grand Slam with a decent chance of topping the table as a Covid affected France will probably have to beat Scotland and Wales with at least one bonus point to prevent it.........
Wales are the most disciplined side in the Championship at the moment and it appears that's all a team needs right now.
And it was deserved.We won the Triple Crown today. Just saying![]()
I agree totally with everything else in your post - when the Captain had been instructed by the ref' to talk to his team, the team were collected, under the posts, and the Captain with his back to the ref'. At a question from Biggar the ref' raises his arm and says, into his microphone, 'time on'. The most appalling piece of International Refereeing I've ever seen.. . . but I thought that Wales were generally more alert and mentally sharper, evidenced by the quickly taken tap penalty when England were asleep waiting for a kick.
Actually I do have to retract my point about the second try. I read Nigel Owens’ analysis and he says that it’s a knock-on as LRZ doesn’t recover the ball himself, so it doesn’t matter that it’s off his hand onto his foot and backwards. Once it’s gone forward off his hand, a knock-on is only prevented if LRZ recovers the ball himself. I would be bleating if Wales were on the receiving end of two dodgy tries but I still think that Wales were overall the better team on the day and worthy of the win.I agree totally with everything else in your post - when the Captain had been instructed by the ref' to talk to his team, the team were collected, under the posts, and the Captain with his back to the ref'. At a question from Biggar the ref' raises his arm and says, into his microphone, 'time on'. The most appalling piece of International Refereeing I've ever seen.
Hence my post #412 yesterday.Actually I do have to retract my point about the second try. I read Nigel Owens’ analysis and he says that it’s a knock-on as LRZ doesn’t recover the ball himself,
According to the soundtrack Biggar asked the ref to let him know when it was "time on" and the ref more or less immediately raised his arm and said "time on". I do think that Farrell had a point about being told to talk to his players and not being given enough time but by the time the ref blew the England defence on the left was more or less in place but on the right they were slow getting across, Wales did nothing wrong.I agree totally with everything else in your post - when the Captain had been instructed by the ref' to talk to his team, the team were collected, under the posts, and the Captain with his back to the ref'. At a question from Biggar the ref' raises his arm and says, into his microphone, 'time on'. The most appalling piece of International Refereeing I've ever seen.
He's a big loss to the international referee panel. Probably the only ref that many opposition teams would be happy to ref them against Wales.Hence my post #412 yesterday.
I'd welcome Nigel Owens as referee in any game involving England!
I saw that interview live, OF was really pissed off with some of the decisions and she kept going on at him, but fair play he kept his cool, just about.I spotted this on the BBC website...
Sonja McLaughlan
I'm not condoning Twitter abuse in the slightest, but if it was she I was hearing interviewing folk after the match, I am not surprised at her drawing criticism. If it had been a male reporter, he would have drawn the same criticism. It came across as "I'm a journalist and it's my job to goad you and harangue you and make an issue of this, even if you want to play the whole thing down... which everyone interviewed wanted to do. I was thinking to myself, "Let it lie, woman, FFS!" But she wasn't for letting it lie...
Newton's 3rd Law... 'every action has an equal and opposite reaction'. Just sayin' Sonja...
Actually I do have to retract my point about the second try. I read Nigel Owens’ analysis and he says that it’s a knock-on as LRZ doesn’t recover the ball himself, so it doesn’t matter that it’s off his hand onto his foot and backwards. Once it’s gone forward off his hand, a knock-on is only prevented if LRZ recovers the ball himself. I would be bleating if Wales were on the receiving end of two dodgy tries but I still think that Wales were overall the better team on the day and worthy of the win.