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Yes you can. Nobody's house is 'squeaky clean'. If you've never had a crack at a ref before then I doubt your capacity to feel emotion at all. You'd be a sociopath, someone not connected to humanity, likely with an ever-growing pile of corpses in your basement. If only the uncompromised could...

I don't think there's a wrong answer. Each option had pros and cons. He kicks it well and it's a Wales lineout in their own 30 and they have a long way to go to get within PG range. Yes if he held it we could have attacked, found space and/or drawn a penalty. Or we could have given away a...

There's no easy answer to this. An independent director seems pretty cumbersome, or you could go full FIFA and refuse to show any replays to the crowd at all. Or we could just see it as a part of home ground advantage. We do it too - I recall the second Ikitau try against South Africa in our...

From memory, the issue wasn't the kick or the decision to kick IMO, he just did it half a step too late and was grabbed from behind as he kicked. So instead of a lineout deep in Wales territory they had a much more stable platform. That said, we still should have been good enough to keep them...

I agree. There's a middle ground somewhere, though. There was a try scored by the French earlier in the year against us where the ball came forward off a French hand, before falling to the winger who ran away and scored. If that try stood I would have been livid, and if the French won by less...

How dare you explain the refs decisions Reg you Welsh bastard. Go and eat some leeks and ride a dragon and let the rest of us attack the referee en masse, please.

We say this, but then the referee blows a try with a clear knock-on in the lead up and we all go nuclear. It's a no win situation.

No. At 7 seconds Fainga'a is still bound, and the reason he unbinds is the tackle from the Wales player.

What Rennie did isn't the same as what Rassie did though. It's one thing to have a crack at the ref in the post game presser, it's another to go nuclear as Rassie did, making and leaking videos, creating burner twitter accounts, and so on. I'm a little uncomfortable with Rennie attacking the...

He unbinds from the maul, before grabbing Fainga'a from behind and pulling him out of the maul. Offside, surely.

That's the prime example of a game where you have to almost ignore the result - I've seen us play far worse and win games in the past. We played with great skill and endeavour for all 80 minutes, and so did Wales. It was a really good game of rugby. Under adversity we stood up, as we did...

I love the idea of Rob Valetini going 'jeez, JOC (James O'Connor) has missed a penalty from 40 out on the angle in the 15th minute. I don't know if I've got it in me now. What's the point? This game is done.'

I thought Paisami was pretty good. His hit on Ali Price and subsequent penalty win may well have been the play of the game. He didn't get many opportunities in attack but I think he's certainly deserved another start.

I thought he was uncharacteristically poor in this game. Gave away a couple of very undisciplined penalties.

Throwing Noah in to start at Twickenham would be a pretty strange move from Rennie. And incredibly tough on Noah.

Pass. Won a home series, beat the World Champs twice. Discovered heaps of new talent. The future is bright.

Hooper is allowed to extend out to score the try. He moves his right leg forward but not his left, I don't think it's a crawl.

Both sides had plenty of chances but let themselves down with their attack in the final third. We gave away three penalties within 5m of the line, two of which prevented a certain try (the AAA call was ridiculous but that's rugby these days), and Scotland dropped it at least four times in the...

Why? This is such a late 90s mindset. Scotland fielded a very strong side at home, and the game was always going to be a tight one.

Yeah. I thought it was a fun game, both sides showed a lot of attacking endeavour. A nice change from the Boks/Argies style.