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2024 Guinness Six Nations
Wales vs England - 16/03/2013
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<blockquote data-quote="psychic duck" data-source="post: 560272" data-attributes="member: 48703"><p>I worded it wrong. Maybe not blaming the loss, but taking away the credit from Wales and covering up their own players failures.</p><p></p><p>England got some bad luck at the scrum lottery. But England themselves were gifted a match by an enormously worse ref performance by Joubert against France. And Clancy against Italy also was clearly favouring England to win and being more generous to them and more harsh to Italy with his whistle. Also when it looked like Italy could seriously have a chance of winning a draw in the final minutes he bottled a decision for Italy and ignored it and allowed England to clear their lines.</p><p></p><p>Both those matches, the referee impacted the result far more than this in favour of England.</p><p></p><p>Nothing was heard then of poor referees, and contrary to that Rowntree said he had "submitted glowing reports" (<a href="http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,3551_8578516,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,3551_8578516,00.html</a>).</p><p></p><p>On the balance of things, England have had more luck from referees this 6 Nations. And a 27 point point tonking is the wrong match to be pointing fingers at referees, when they were hardly robbed by a particular decision.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I can guarantee you that whoever you would replace him with there would be the same issues. The scrum is a farce, regardless of the referee.</p><p></p><p>Just look at it. I am sure a lot of the time the scrum just collapses and nobody is really at fault, and there is a penalty which nobody has a clue about. The same penalties would happen whatever referee unfortunately.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Was talking about the coaches not you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="psychic duck, post: 560272, member: 48703"] I worded it wrong. Maybe not blaming the loss, but taking away the credit from Wales and covering up their own players failures. England got some bad luck at the scrum lottery. But England themselves were gifted a match by an enormously worse ref performance by Joubert against France. And Clancy against Italy also was clearly favouring England to win and being more generous to them and more harsh to Italy with his whistle. Also when it looked like Italy could seriously have a chance of winning a draw in the final minutes he bottled a decision for Italy and ignored it and allowed England to clear their lines. Both those matches, the referee impacted the result far more than this in favour of England. Nothing was heard then of poor referees, and contrary to that Rowntree said he had "submitted glowing reports" ([URL]http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,3551_8578516,00.html[/URL]). On the balance of things, England have had more luck from referees this 6 Nations. And a 27 point point tonking is the wrong match to be pointing fingers at referees, when they were hardly robbed by a particular decision. I can guarantee you that whoever you would replace him with there would be the same issues. The scrum is a farce, regardless of the referee. Just look at it. I am sure a lot of the time the scrum just collapses and nobody is really at fault, and there is a penalty which nobody has a clue about. The same penalties would happen whatever referee unfortunately. Was talking about the coaches not you. [/QUOTE]
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