Re: Australia vs. England 31 Oct 2010 : Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:14 am
Okay - so we made far too many mistakes in our own half, but pretty much every time we had the ball in their half we scored, and made the aussie defence look very ordinary. They didn't have to work for any of their tries, half were given to them by our mistakes and the other half were given to them by the officials.
The frustration of englands handling errors was overshadowed by the absolute ineptituded of the officials.
How can the video ref give benefit of doubt to the aussies, then when there was genuine doubt about the Lunt try decide to give 'refs call' - if he had doubt about it why not giove the try like he did for the aussies ? How can he use two different versions of the same rules in the same game? Absolute joke.
Everyone could see the ball touched lewis' hand - except the video ref, everyone could see the ball was forward in their 2nd half try, even the knock on by goulding giving them field position for their 2nd try was a blatant ball steal with a 2 man tackle - it was an obvious tactic by the aussies in the early hit-ups of the tackle count up to attack the ball - sometimes legally but mostlly when 2 men were involved.
England can find too many ways to lose a game themselves - what they don't need is the officials matching their incompetence............
