olepete says...

Jacobsen was warned and had to go to the bin. But what to do about the scrum? 2 min to set them, scrum-half feeding his own front row never caught by this man but stopped by others - can't we at least have consistency among the referees? And the lineout - throwing down your own line was 'not straight' once upon a time, but again, no consistency. Come on Mr O'Brien, get them together and make them conform!

Posted 10:10 28th February 2011

crunchfit says...

A few of Owens' calls against the Irish were wrong and some were 50 / 50. I can't remember any of the calls being made against the Irish during times of pressure or in areas of pressure (usually outside the 22).

As for Jacobsen's yellow, the referee warned him to bind properly the previous scrum and in then he bound incorrectly again in the next scrum. He also did this during a period of play when the Irish scrum was dominant. It's the props fault, not the referees.

Posted 00:30 28th February 2011