I've got no problem with penalising Launchbury its a blatant penalty but it has to be called as advantage or not be seen that you need to check with TMO neither of which happened. My issue stems from consistency of refereeing if you tell a player to stop and he does, then you agree, you've allowed him to do it, you can't retrospectively give a penalty for it. Otherwise it causes a problem for every official in every match why stop doing something if the ref tell you to if your just going to get peanlised for it anyway? Also there the fact Owens was letting Scotland get away with all sort of malarkey at the breakdown that was just as blatant as that.
Owens has two choices officiate the breakdown properly or allow the intercept try. He can't have it both ways otherwise he's just saying 'you can break the rules as long as you don't score a try of it'.
Jone Boy do you ever comment on a match before a game? Or do you always just come in like the messiah after the fact? I know if I could be arsed find loads of posts of you praising EJ and what a great a job he's done with England. but nah you'd rather be on the wind-up.
