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Just seemed to me that the majority of the small margin situations went our way. And the ball bouncing 0.0003 of an inch inside the line struck me as good luck.
It was just a perfectly judged kick...
Just seemed to me that the majority of the small margin situations went our way. And the ball bouncing 0.0003 of an inch inside the line struck me as good luck.
It was just a perfectly judged kick...
I'd give him a quid if he could do it again!
I thought it looked out but like the ref said, you can’t definitively tell either way.
You thought it was out?!?
Well I never.
To be fair Welsh television does move the ball into touch when it’s England.
Even when every other angle available clearly shows it wasn’t in touch.
Clearly shows? Is that what the ref said? I might have misheard.
I heard the ref say that it was a try having looked at it for about 5 minutes.
All that counts mate.
Yeah the word ‘clearly’ was probably wrong but when they’ve looked at it that many times you have to accept the decision.
It was brilliant play from Daly either way.
Was excellent to see Cheika so annoyed.
I think the ref said there’s no clear indication that the ball was out of touch just as there was no clear indication that the ball was in.
I prefer they give benefit if the doubt to the attacking team, though. Just take issue with people saying it was clearly not in touch though I’m not surprised as you all said North was in touch (when he wasn’t) in that wakes England game a year or 2 ago.
I thought a tiny fraction of the ball looked like it touched a tiny part of the line but you can’t tell from any of the angles shown as none of them were close enough.
The only thing that would’ve resolved it would’ve been if there was some tennis/hawkeye thing. Actually, don’t know why we don’t have that in rugby tbh.
There was only one frame where it looked close to being in touch, and even then when it was magnified there looked to be maybe a centimetre of green between the ball and the touchline. In a situation like that you have to have clear proof that the ball was out, just like there needed to be clear proof that Hooper was offside for his disallowed try, and had Moore not obstructed Robshaw they would have looked for clear proof that the ball had been held up rather than being grounded. Ultimately if Beale hadn't assumed it was going out and given up on it then there wouldn't even be a discussion.
New Zealand are there for the taking at the moment.
So a cast iron Wales win next week, you reckon? Ought to be ashamed of themselves if it's less than a 20 point gap?
Yes I should have caveated that with who the opposition is.
It's a real shame we haven't seen the All Blacks versus either Ireland or England in this series.
It's also very annoying that the Scotland v Australia game next weekend is at the same time that I'll be at Twickenham watching a reserve England team v Samoa. I think Scotland have to get something out of that.
It'll be an interesting game (S v A). Can't call it tbh.
I don't think I'd play a reserve team against Samoa (and not only because it's the whole of Samoa these days). But I'd certainly start some of the finishers - Jamie George springs to mind.
Scotland - Played very well and were so close to a win, but that really could be their motto in recent years. World class from Beauden Barrett again to stop that Hogg break, but New Zealand are there for the taking at the moment.
Scotland probably would have won if Read had been binned and a potential penalty try given for his deliberate knock on whilst on the floor in front of his own posts instead of the knock on wrongly being given against Gray. They'd have been 5 points behind with about 8 minutes to go against 13 men for the rest of the game.