Steve Walsh 30 England 3

[mattx]

Nice one Steve. Drunk again ? Certainly by some of the decisions you made in this game.

Shocking does not come close.

Don't mind getting beat fair and square this was a joke from start to finish.

 

http://www.theweek.co.uk/rugby/52001/rugby-steve-walsh-six-nations-england-wales

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Walsh_%28rugby_referee%29

Edited March 16, 2013 by mattx

[featured_spectre]

I am appalled by some of his decisions...if a person is physically pinned down of course it is bloody impossible to roll away...but no...the welsh played to the ref and it paid off. At half time England looked so poor even without the decisions...but I think this sums it up nicely

 

http://thumbsnap.com/s/ouyN1l41.jpg

[witch]

I don't agree, but even if you reversed these decisions, Wales would still have won. England played like amateurs, however you look at it.

And implying that Steve Walsh won the game for Wales is just sour grapes. Whatever you think of some of his behaviour, Wales wiped the floor with England.

Edited March 16, 2013 by witch

[featured_spectre]

No denying England were not on form (the tries were well deserved by Wales)...but the decisions were nothing short of shocking!

[garethEds]

Oh come on you sore losers. Get a grip. You lost. Deal with it. Walsh was consistent with his decisions.

 

Teams pay people to study the ref. England didn't do that very well. Wales have had issues with Walsh before as well.

 

It was a damn good game of rugby. You cannot blame the ref for England only scoring 3 points. You have to blame poor England who were outplayed and outclassed.

 

Rant over. Get over it.

 

Gareth

[mattx]

Walsh's past looking after England games is easy to investigate however I agree that they did not play well.

I had to laugh at two penalty shouts for England which had to be asked for by the english players. Walsh is not fit to ref any game. He is a joke and a disgrace to the sport.

Already banned by the NZ Rugby board, he then turns up pi55ed to a conference and beause he can't ref games in NZ he becomes an Aussie !! The only reason he continues to ref games is because of a lack of proper Rugby Refs. Don't mind getting beat, but hate getting beat by a ref that should be no where near a rugby field.

Edited March 16, 2013 by mattx

[elsiegee40]

Having been at Twickenham to see probably the most boring match ever where England failed to turn up against Italy, I was totally unsurprised by today's result.

 

Wales got two good tries. They played like they wanted to win. They deserved to win.

[featured_spectre]

Having been at Twickenham to see probably the most boring match ever where England failed to turn up against Italy, I was totally unsurprised by today's result.

 

Wales got two good tries. They played like they wanted to win. They deserved to win.

 

This^^^

 

However, what people don't realise is both English and Welsh RFU's both appealed against having Walsh ref the game, however IRB turned the appeals down. Walsh is a universally disliked ref...even in Australia he is disliked at club and national level (he is not allowed to ref in Championship games (formerly tri-nations) because of his bust ups with South Africa and New Zealand.

[SimpleSi]

As a Geordie I support England.

 

As a Walters - I support Wales

 

win -win for me

 

Those welsh drives were great (as was the english defending)

 

If you listened to Brian Moore (a poacher turned gamekeeper ), he said it was all part of the game and that the Welsh pack won the day for their team.

 

Those tries wern't due to any refereeing - they were just good tries (especially the 2nd one with that last pass)

 

Ireland/Italy was good to watch as well

 

Nice afternoon of qualilty entertainment

 

Rugby Internationals are the best showcase for how professional sport should be played and refereed - if you don't like the decisions of the ref- put yourself in the sin bin for 10 mins

Simon

[36Degrees]

Steve Walsh did make some strange decisions (telling Tom Youngs if he moved again he would penalise him - WTF?) but ultimately Wales played very well and we were awful. They deserved to win and they deserved to win by the margin they did.

[Gibson335]

The best team won. We were completely outplayed in every meaningful aspect of the game. There were some odd decisions given in favour of the home side, but that should not detract from the point that we were out-gunned for the majority of the game. Wales were patient and the additional experience was a telling factor. We should not overlook the fact that almost all the England subs were actually first choice last season, and this new young side will only improve. We have a few weaknesses which need to be addressed, and I don't believe Lancaster should continue to play two 'crash' centres. Overall, England did take a step forward this tournament, but Saturday was a reminder as to how much further we need to go.

[Rawns]

I'm English. My wife and the in-laws (huge rugby fans) are Welsh. Either way, my team won.

[Earthling]

I've been trying hard to resist having my say about the game on Saturday, but I can't resist anymore.

 

Blame the English rugby media. Everything I heard and read gave the impression that all England had to do was turn-up, pick up the 6N Trophy, complete a Grand Slam and go home again, job done.

 

What on earth made you all think you were going to come to the Millenium and walk away with a Grand Slam? Wales had one bad half against Ireland, then three AWAY wins. How easily everyone forgot, that but for a moment of tackling madness, Wales would have been in the World Cup final last time round.

 

As for refereeing decisions, the scrum is a dangerous part of the game. Players have suffered broken collar-bones, broken necks, paralysing injuries and some have even died. Brian Moore's lucky, it never happened to him. That's how he's able to sit in a commentary box, deriding referees who have a responsibility and a duty of care to the players to ensure the scrums are set properly and contested fairly.

 

As @garethedmondson said 'Get over it'.

 

Go and listen to Ian Robinson's 'Johnny Wilkinson drops for World Cup glory' radio clip for a couple of hours. You'll be fine.

 

THE NEWSDESK: Spot the brutal and intimidating Welshmen - and one happy pundit (From South Wales Argus)

[36Degrees]

deriding referees who have a responsibility and a duty of care to the players to ensure the scrums are set properly and contested fairly.

 

Whenever I've listened to Brian Moore or read his comments it is precisely this that he complains about. There are laws about binding on the shirt not the arm, pushing before the ball's in, putting the ball down the centre, ect. that are routinely ignored at the top level. Also, as he did actually play in the front row, not just in the scrum, I believe he at least speaks from experience.

 

As I said, England were awful and although there were some strange decisions at the scrum they did not affect the outcome.

[Gibson335]

No one with any sort of balanced view on the game of rugby even had England as the favourites. The media love to build up to knock down - it's their own internal private sport.

 

I take Earthling's view on the scrum, but the referee was not consistent, some of his 'lying on the ball' decisions were ridiculous, but frankly those two areas are the two most likely to be subjective and therefore always open to dispute. In my opinion the rule changers have made a shambles of rules over the past few years, and so people will be hesitant before making yet more, but they need to revisit those two areas in particular. If even hardened scrummagers disagree then it leaves it too open. I'm not in favour of so many scrum-based penalties, and wasn't even when England's scrum were dominating others.

 

England fans need to remember that this is a young, relatively inexperienced team, and a Grand Slam was always going to be a step too far too early. Wales are the best team in the northern hemisphere when they are able to field their best side, and England need to focus on the positives, but react to the areas of weakness. We are lacking when we go forward, and that is mostly due to the lack of creativity in the centre and the fact that Ashton has, like Cohen did, bulked up too much and has lost his snap - along with his 'League' tackling, though he was never that good at it even then. There are some good forwards out there, a fine squad in general, but Twelvetrees has to play in place of one of the centres and we need to find a replacement for Ashton. It's going the right way and this mauling should not detract from that.

[Gibson335]

Whenever I've listened to Brian Moore or read his comments it is precisely this that he complains about. There are laws about binding on the shirt not the arm, pushing before the ball's in, putting the ball down the centre, ect. that are routinely ignored at the top level. Also, as he did actually play in the front row, not just in the scrum, I believe he at least speaks from experience.

 

As I said, England were awful and although there were some strange decisions at the scrum they did not affect the outcome.

 

The feed at the scrum has become a joke, and the pushing prior to the ball going in is also a problem. Youngs got pinged for delaying twice on Saturday, but the scrum was moving and the referee seemed to overlook this. Obviously this was not the reason for defeat, because refs get this wrong all the time and often in our favour. It must be a nightmare for the players to know which set of opinions will be imposed, though.

[sonofsanta]

That is a hilarious image @nephilim

 

Saturday was just embarassing. Genuinely shameful. It put the England team - very promising, but still unpolished - thoroughly into perspective. Rarely have I seen such a trouncing. The reffing was what it was, and you have to deal with it, but we were out-scrummed, out-run and just out-played.

 

Well played to the Welsh, to come back from that opening first half against the Irish to this is phenomenal. Everyone had them written off after the Autumn Internationals, but they shut their critics up in the best possible way - with actions not words.

 

And to think that, after that opening weekend, I was heralding this as the best ever Six Nations and pontificating loudly on how the English or the Irish would be lifting the trophy

[psbresner]

WALES WALES WALES !!!!!

 

 

Paul:D

[mattx]

England unhappy with referee Steve Walsh's performance in defeat by Wales as they report official to IRB - Telegraph

[andrew_91090]

granted Walsh had a bad first half (didn't see him do much wrong second half) but if you really know rugby, you wouldn't be blaming the referee, I haven't been watching rugby long and I know that was a dire performance, we didn't even do fantastic against Italy, we only scored kicks and again, we were lucky to even win that.

[glennda]

granted Walsh had a bad first half (didn't see him do much wrong second half) but if you really know rugby, you wouldn't be blaming the referee, I haven't been watching rugby long and I know that was a dire performance, we didn't even do fantastic against Italy, we only scored kicks and again, we were lucky to even win that.

 

If you know rugby well and the rules almost inside out (I've played for 17 years!) - you will realise that 95% of the decisions around the scrum that were made were either incorrect or inconsistent which is what Graham Roundtree has come out and said. Which even the Welsh guys at the rugby club also agreed. Don't get me wrong i don't think even with those decisions going out way we deserved to win but it is a well known fact that Steve Walsh tends to have an Anti-england approach.

[andrew_91090]

If you know rugby well and the rules almost inside out (I've played for 17 years!) - you will realise that 95% of the decisions around the scrum that were made were either incorrect or inconsistent which is what Graham Roundtree has come out and said. Which even the Welsh guys at the rugby club also agreed. Don't get me wrong i don't think even with those decisions going out way we deserved to win but it is a well known fact that Steve Walsh tends to have an Anti-england approach.

 

As I say, I've only really been following it over this past year and still getting there with ALL the rules, I did see a couple of stupid mistakes with the scrum like and yes I have heard he is very anti-English, but all I ever see/hear people saying (not just on Edugeek) is that the ref made us lose this game.