Hey Eddie, who's boys are looking tired now?
What a second half. Scotland deserved to win, stupid penalty with a minute to go.
Was a great match!
It's evident the Irish back row in particular aren't used to being reffed properly. POM and SOB have never been so quiet.
Apart from letting Josh Adams off the hook for the trip (should've been a yellow card, IMO) I think he most of the rest pretty-much bang-on. Made a couple of on-field errors, checked snd corrected himself. Plenty of refs don't have the balls to do that.
You had the trip which as you say was at least a yellow, at least 3 very debatable decisions (I doubt the 2 penalties at the start of the second half that effectively killed the game would have been given outside of Cardiff), and multiple warnings to your players for deliberate foul play. Ref even said he'd warned one of the players twice. How many warnings should he give one player?
No doubt you were the better team, and some of the Irish players need to have a look at where their game is right now but the ref influenced the game.
The ref was too quick on some occasions and the Irish suffered, especially when he called to use the ball from the maul near the Welsh line. Yet he was slow on some jackel moves, twice with Navidi who had clear hands on, seen many refs blow for those very quickly. Agree Adams should have had a yellow card but there was a lot going on off the ball as well by Ireland when they got frustrated in the second half.
What a day . Wales deserved to win and even without the help of the ref would have won. Then what a final game. Jones has a serious mentality problem with the squad. I was dreading a rerun of 2 years ago. Thankfully the players thought different. England ended up very lucky to get a draw.