It's hard to play against 16 players 
But you (English folks) convinced us that you were dragon slayers and it didn't matter how big they were?
As a pacifier, I am under no delusion that we (scots) might manage to salvage a win against France tonight but at least we are not crowing from the rooftops and getting our name engraved on a win that has yet to be played, unlike the English/BBC commentary team of the past few weeks.
Possibly agree with the ref being on side but, truth be told, the welsh vastly outplayed the English, irrespective o the refs persuasion. And tbh, I thought he allowed an open and fast game rather than getting bogged down in the legal niceties.
TBH I agree that Wales played better, England are always up against it when they play crunch matches away from home. For some reason they flake. The first half was fantastic but you could see the amazement at some of the decisions. Early shoving in the scrum is ok in his book, even when it prevents the scrum half from making the put in..but in that case penalise the scrum half....wha...I dont get it. Then when England collapsed the scrum quite rightly they were penalised but when Wales did so it was ignored and a penalty given against England for something else......I just dont get the referees today. You can see that none of them have ever played front row, how can they officiate something they dont understand and why dont the touch judges have the moral courage to speak up when they see something amiss on the ref's blind side?
It annoys me because it took what little wind was left in England's sails after the punishment they were getting from the Welsh which meant I didn't want to watch the last 20 minutes, not because England were losing but because the ref was making a mockery of the game I love. The Lions could have rallied and made for an exciting finish but they were afraid to legally contest ruck and mall for fear of falling foul of whatever rule book the ref was reading from at that moment.
Sorry, rant over. Sometimes I feel I should do my referees course and go pro, I can't do a worse job than this fella and don't get me started on Joubert!
