Mr poite has to be the worst ref on he circuit. How many penalties did wales concede especially in the first half and no sign of a yellow card. At one stage wales played a ball from the base of a ruck 8 seconds after he had called for them to play it, Sean O'Brien was penalised for a late tackle when he was clearly commited and yes Best had come in from the gate. They are just a few examples of what a terrible ref that man is, i have yet to see him have a good game as an official, maybe he should concentrate more on growing his beard.
To be called a whinger by someone who choses to call him/her self boohoo, thats irony. My point was the call (completely wrong decision) completely swung the momentum of the game in favour of the ab's who were on the back foot and staring defeat in the eye. Why he chose not to see the blatant infringments in the scrum is a complete mystery when he was standing straight in front of them. If these refereeing "slips" are not noted and commented on, then there will be no improvment in standards of refereeing to the detrement of the game as a hole.
My previous comment was removed, Ok, just let me say this, Ireland had the All Blacks on the rack, advancing scrum just outside the NZ 22 when Mr Owen (is that better rugbydump?) gave a penalty against Ireland for wheeling the scrum when it should have been against New Zealand for 1. The prop slipping the bind and 2. the back row coming up and detaching from the scrum, all of this happened right in front of the "referee". The latter meaning that Cian Healy was driving against nothing. All this with 6 minutes left on the clock. The resulting "penalty" meant that the All Blacks cleared their line and built the phases (despite a knock on again not spotted by the afore mentioned Mr Owen) to enable them to score the winning drop goal. To say that we were robbed is an understatement.
