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switchskier wrote:How do England get such impressive line speed? Time and again they seem to catch the man behind the gain line, no matter who they're playing. They're not obviously miles offside so how are they getting it done?

Also Ijote is becoming a bit of a liability. That's three times he's been late or high now and he's constantly resting on his elbows at ruck time.

I feel a great deal of emotion at having finally reversed the vapor. Honestly, a little disgust too, to have been reffed this way, to the end. We think we could have lost a match like that, as was the case against Australia (23-25, ed.) We were destroying their scrum to the end. If we had been Wales, South Africa or Australia, the penalty try would have come very quickly because the dominance was clear. There is therefore a sense of frustration and unfairness

We were refereed as a small team, and it bothered me a lot. We talk a lot about fair play, but Anglo-Saxon referees take us for cheaters, when they should watch what they are up to.

There is no real role. You ask for the scrum each time because if you ask anything else, you're a "con " (fool). After that, it's hard to calm things down. On the edge of the field , it was practically nuclear war. It was also necessary to calm the referee, because the Welsh spoke to him all the time and I pointed out to him that that was not possible. Of course if he spoke French, we too could talk to him all the time! There is always a connivance between the Anglo-Saxon referees and the Anglo-Saxon teams, which can be disturbing, and which takes its full extent in these moments.

Edinburgh in Exile wrote:

whatisthejava wrote:Cheating French. The one thing Barnes did right was not awarding the pen try.

switchskier wrote:Only Brian Moore could bring in Trump and Brexit to a tense rugby finale. Love that man.

Actually feel quite sorry for Barnes. Evidently holding onto his patience by the skin of his teeth.

Just call pen try and be done with it.