ThinkingGame says...

@Dingbat32

@ThinkingGame - Yes! and sympathies to your parents!

That was the graceless bit. The TMO can only rule on the grounding, not a knock on in the build up. If there had been a clear knock on, and the ref had missed it, and asked the TMO to rule on the try, it would have been awarded. Here, the ref thought he saw a knock on, and blew his whistle. It was not poor refereeing, since it was tough to see either way even on the replay. The referee was consistent in his interpretation and application of the Laws. He made a number of understandable errors that is entirely in context with other refereeing displays at this level. The reason Scotland lost is that they lost their discipline under pressure, and were playing a better side.

Posted 14:58 14th February 2012

melkdave says...

Poilet was a bit weak imo refering the the breakdown and yes Wales did take advantage espically Adam Jones who lay over the ball or in the way a couple of times imo Also Walsh players where a tad slow in getting up off the floor and usually blocked the scrum halfs pass to the back line.when they did If Scotland had been as cynical as M.Phillips in catching Rennie well at least 2 penalties went begging there .All in all Scotland could have gone in at half time 15-3 up imo As to the disallowed try well come on in real time it looked a blatant knock on only in super slow motion do you see it isnt .Can you imagine the screams for his head if he allowed a try from what looked like a certain knock on if the slow motion had showed it was LOL.I applaurd him for actually making a call with out refering it to a TMO atm referees are being gutless in even refering easy certain tries to the TMOs If they arnt going to make decisions why the hell have them .TMOs are supposed to be used when the decision is unclear like the R.Jones maybe try against Ireland not for clear cut decisions.atm it seems every try is refered to the TMO and thats wrong and shows how scared / gutless referees have become of making a decision

Posted 16:32 13th February 2012

ThinkingGame says...

@Dingbat32

Graceless. An engaging game of rugby happened, without major controversy, and Scotland were well beaten.

Posted 13:18 13th February 2012

7ton says...

Suilven

The headline from PR here is a bit misleading

I watched the interview with Lydiate and he was just responding to a leading question from the interviewer in a polite way. He was not in anyway telling or lecturing Scotland about disipline but just going along with the interviewer

Posted 10:44 13th February 2012

suilven says...

@jontheref I think you're a wee bit confused as to which match & what we're talking about...You're not George Clancy are you?

Posted 10:34 13th February 2012

ThinkingGame says...

@Dingbat32

No. And my sympathies.

Posted 02:48 13th February 2012

Dingbat32 says...

Just prior to Scotlands first yellow card, I am pretty sure I saw Wales deliberately knock on to stop a Scotland move. A yellow card offence.

Wales had hands in every ruck, yet no yellow.

Scotland had a legitimate try disallowed.

Yes Scotland had the usual lack of killer instinct, but it would be more fair to blame poor referee (again!) rather than lack of discipline.

Posted 22:37 12th February 2012