RBS 6 Nations - England vs Wales - 25/02/2012, 16:00

[shtove]

Could someone tell me what Priestland was sin bined for? It just seemed like a normal tackle for me, was he offside or something? Must of missed (or conviniently ignored) it.

Tackle from offside position. But England player had already lost the ball forward.

 

[Mr.cyclopede]

Congrats Walles

Despite the defeat, found England a nice future, might be the match of the rebirth.

Kicking awful from both side, more surprising from England but really really awful from Walles. Ref mistakes balanced between white hands in rucks and no straight line outs and red offsides.
If Welsh substitution managing and Philips/Priestland performances are as poor as today, we have a good chance in Millennium stadium.

 

[Russdog]

Look at no 6s hands clearly he's let go before Robshaw touches him

 

[dullonien]

Look at no 6s hands clearly he's let go before Robshaw touches him

Why are you even arguing this? Robshaw clearly takes Welsh players out, he jumps straight across into them, catches Warburtons legs and almost flips him onto his neck. This happenes quite often in rugby, so I'm not making Robshaw out as some kinda villain, but it's usually punished by a yellow card, that was all I was saying.

Edit. Lifter's often become detached from the lumper, but they will catch them again on the way down. You'r photo shows bugger all, aprt from the fact that Robshaw is about to collide with Warburton and the jumpers.

 

[Russdog]

I'm a neutral so I don't care what you think of robshaw I'm just saying its just as much the fault of the lifters as robshaw

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Sharples was ruled out of this match due to injury.....yet started for Gloucester this evening?!

 

[Dicey]

Yeah a tight match like most thought . I agree with Guscott in that the English defence was awesome and continually hit us back behind the gain line and prevented our backs getting up a head of steam . Tuillagi won the midfield battle hands down and Farrell was pretty impressive at 10 . When England lost their half backs I felt they also lost their way a little.
Priestland had a right mare for us and we actually looked better when he was in the sin bin ! pulling 3 pts back when at 14 men was a major turning point

 

[TRF_Cymro]

I'm a neutral so I don't care what you think of robshaw I'm just saying its just as much the fault of the lifters as robshaw

But quite clearly you do care about Robshaw :lol:

As Dull said the photo shows little.

This might show more:

 

[spray]

Cracking match. Clarity required whether Walsh called Adv over for last Eng play. If not over Eng should have had opp to have penalty after try was disallowed.

 

[TRF_Cymro]

Cracking match. Clarity required whether Walsh called Adv over for last Eng play. If not over Eng should have had opp to have penalty after try was disallowed.

I thought the same, surely Walsh should / could have gone back to the penalty advantage.

 

[Draggs]

Cracking match. Clarity required whether Walsh called Adv over for last Eng play. If not over Eng should have had opp to have penalty after try was disallowed.

It is a similar situation to that of the Scotland v England match and Laidlaw's no try. Advantage was being played up until that point, IIRC.

 

[Dicey]

Yeah a tight match like most thought . I agree with Guscott in that the English defence was awesome and continually hit us back behind the gain line and prevented our backs getting up a head of steam . Tuillagi won the midfield battle hands down and Farrell was pretty impressive at 10 . When England lost their half backs I felt they also lost their way a little.
Priestland had a right mare for us and we actually looked better when he was in the sin bin ! pulling 3 pts back when at 14 men was a major turning point

 

[SelimNiai]

I thought the same, surely Walsh should / could have gone back to the penalty advantage.

You forget that Walsh is a completley useless, inept referee. Or referee impersonator

 

[bushytop]

Everyone needs to realise that hard fought victories are undeniabley more important in a teams development than just posting in victories.

Wales looked aimless and without ideas for most of today but a lot of that should be praised on England's. Preperation.

You can not measure how important a hard fought victory like that will be in the long run for this (still) young Welsh side.

Ps England will be fine if today is anything to go by.

 

[dullonien]

I thought the same, surely Walsh should / could have gone back to the penalty advantage.

Ref's often do. But what more of an advantage should a team require than almost scoring a try. I always feel that advantage should be over if a team get's over the try-line.

 

[gingergenius]

Beaten Ireland and England away. Beat a dogged Scottish team at home. When people play the better teams they tend to raise their game. Wales were clinical when they needed to be and showed character when they went down to 14.

Media hype, yea whatever ... not like the English media does the same now or in the past?

As I said, deserved the Triple Crown. And hyping the England team? Nobody did that here, and people haven't claimed England will humiliate their opponents since the Woodward era, in which the hype was deserved. All the other times, Wales haven't beaten England by more than 9 points since the 70s, so I don't know where all the overconfidence came from.

 

[Dicey]

Cracking match. Clarity required whether Walsh called Adv over for last Eng play. If not over Eng should have had opp to have penalty after try was disallowed.

Have yet to playback the game but I thought there was still a couple of minutes on clock when the decision went to the TMO

 

[Groundhog]

I don't think so. Time ran out just before the TMO, I certainly didn't here advantage over from the ref. That no try decision was a tough call to make although I think the TMO was probably right, Inconclusive

 

[TRF_Cymro]

You forget that Walsh is a completley useless, inept referee. Or referee impersonator

Dear god he was terrible today.

 

[bushytop]

Walsh avoids any breakdown issues by instantly blowing up agaisnt Wales..

Look I know England were great today but the outrage that is Steve Walsh has been impeding Wales at the breakdown for years. Please lord never let him ref a Wales game again.