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2024 Guinness Six Nations
Wales vs England - 16/03/2013
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<blockquote data-quote="j&#039;nuh" data-source="post: 560181" data-attributes="member: 55446"><p>I agree, the result doesn't change. But when the England coaches sat down with the England players for the last time at the end of the 6N, and if/when they conduct a video session at the beginning of the summer tests looking back at the Wales match, what are they supposed to tell their players? You can't learn from your mistakes when you don't know what your mistakes are.</p><p></p><p>The other thing is that the IRB needs to know if a referee is particularly or consistently poor so that they can take action sooner rather than later. If Walsh isn't good enough for this level (I'm not casting any judgments myself, I'm just saying "if") then he should be replaced now that his performances have been brought to light, and not after he's had time to affect a much closer game. </p><p></p><p>It may also be that a poor performance brings to light a deeper issue in the way the game is refereed. For example, since the scrum engagement routine changed to crouch-touch-set, it seems that the frequency of early engagements has increased by a lot. I think this might be in part down to small pauses that referees are putting between the words. Also, good binding is crucial to a scrum and props on the far side from the ref seem to bind wrongly more frequently and that the IRB should explore bringing in one of the touch judges to look at binding.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="j'nuh, post: 560181, member: 55446"] I agree, the result doesn't change. But when the England coaches sat down with the England players for the last time at the end of the 6N, and if/when they conduct a video session at the beginning of the summer tests looking back at the Wales match, what are they supposed to tell their players? You can't learn from your mistakes when you don't know what your mistakes are. The other thing is that the IRB needs to know if a referee is particularly or consistently poor so that they can take action sooner rather than later. If Walsh isn't good enough for this level (I'm not casting any judgments myself, I'm just saying "if") then he should be replaced now that his performances have been brought to light, and not after he's had time to affect a much closer game. It may also be that a poor performance brings to light a deeper issue in the way the game is refereed. For example, since the scrum engagement routine changed to crouch-touch-set, it seems that the frequency of early engagements has increased by a lot. I think this might be in part down to small pauses that referees are putting between the words. Also, good binding is crucial to a scrum and props on the far side from the ref seem to bind wrongly more frequently and that the IRB should explore bringing in one of the touch judges to look at binding. [/QUOTE]
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