That first try for Wales is a disgrace
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Brave? It was stupid.
I’ll be honest I’ve not watched Ireland yet. If you guys are worse than what we served up against Scotland it must be fun viewing
Don't remember flukes in the first two games.
Today, the first try, I'd be pissed if that was me and my coach would've been pissed publicly but once in the changing rooms, he'd have fecking screamed at us "stop sipping xxxxxx water, watch the Welsh players you stupid xxxxers".
The second try is a terrible decision. Live I said knock on. Two replays, knock on. I actually joked to my daughter "It'd be funny if he gave this". I would point out that the TMO did jack shit... his job isn't just to be a video operator, he's supposed to have some input. Useless.
Getting a poor/tight decision is fortunate but you still have to take advantage of it. Flukes are football matches when a team is shit and have one shot that ricochets off 4 opponents and the ref.
I'd be pissed if it was the other way mind
I remember playing at 19 (I was a winger too) and you always get some giants but the thought of playing test rugby at 19..... yikes
Would only have been about three months ago then.
Wales are so painfully slow.
Farrell is nowhere near as clinical as he needs to be. I feel like Daly makes them ones look comfortable more often than not.
Another flukey try eh?
Or maybe England need to have a word with themselves and keep switched on ALL the time?
Or maybe England need to have a word with themselves and keep switched on ALL the time?
So so sloppy from England. The defensive brand of Rugby England play does not allow this many mistakes
Nice jinx
Don't remember flukes in the first two games.
Today, the first try, I'd be pissed if that was me and my coach would've been pissed publicly but once in the changing rooms, he'd have fecking screamed at us "stop sipping xxxxxx water, watch the Welsh players you stupid xxxxers".
The second try is a terrible decision. Live I said knock on. Two replays, knock on. I actually joked to my daughter "It'd be funny if he gave this". I would point out that the TMO did jack shit... his job isn't just to be a video operator, he's supposed to have some input. Useless.
Getting a poor/tight decision is fortunate but you still have to take advantage of it. Flukes are football matches when a team is shit and have one shot that ricochets off 4 opponents and the ref.
I'd be pissed if it was the other way mind
BBC commentary said not a knock on, according to laws of the game, as it didn’t hit the ground.
I think that it's time for the english young'uns to be given the key of the team. The last 12 months feel like the end of a cycle for the current group.
Damn this kicking for 3 everytime
He never had control of the ball. It's a knock on and the refs messes up there. Warburton and Johnson are saying it's a knock on.
They're hardly sipping water. They're doing what the ref asked and the ref gave them less than a second to set themselves after he said time on.
And the third try being legitimate from Wales and poor from England doesn't make the first try any better.
Is it just me or is the commentator on virgin one insufferable, he sounds like a posh man trying not to shit himself.
He juggled the ball but his last touch was to knock it behind him (with his leg) I think that’s why they’re saying it wasn’t a knock on.
It’s certainly not cut and dried. Here’s a thread with a load of rugby referees disagreeing about a similar issue.
Come on .. "a second"?
And refs tell captains to have a word with their players all the time. I've never seen a ref stop the game until they're ready, whatever Martin Johnson thinks.
Biggars just switched on to the opportunity.
England do that, I'd be pissed at conceding and blame the players.
Scrum at halfway line and you take a kick . Sums up England
Class try
The speed of recycling and passing miles quicker by England. Wales too cautious and too slow at getting the ball out
England will kick themselves if they don't win this. They're a much better team but have simply made some stupid errors. But they look so much better on the ball than Wales, who have been pretty rubbish, to be honest.
They don't stop the play to let teams set. It's courtesy to make sure the team isn't in a huddle. It's not as if England were wasting time after the ref said time on. He saw they were in a huddle and blew.
It's like a quick freekick in football. They're given but they're a bit cheeky. You don't see that in rugby.
This was me at HT . England are just killing themselves though
I really hate Virgin One. Apart from Keatley, it's hard not to like him.
Here we go, is this the red?
Damn, would have loved all the salt if they'd given the red there.
Story of the championship, really.
England just can't help themselves, absolutely horrendous with their indiscipline
It's about time itoje is getting pinged constantly. Quite often he's illegal at breakdowns but the ref doesn't blow
The discipline is just horrendous.
England doing their best to throw this away
Kill me
Jonathan Davies has to be one of Welshist people of all time
I just don’t understand. Surely when the England team watch the replays of a game afterwards and see how many penalties they give away, they must agree that it’s a problem. Every game is just an endless trickle of them though. Incredibly frustrating.
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