Quote: Pumpetypump "T&A was fairly damning of Pryce's defensive effort. Did his defensive lapses cancel out his go-forward?'"
He's a big lad who takes a bit of getting going from a standing start and is also slow to turn (think an aircraft carrier vs a jetboat) but then you knew that, as do we all. Against a quick lateral attack he will always struggle to keep abreast of it.
But no, it didn't cancel out his go forward; three tries and a try saving interception in defence would take a lot of cancelling out to be fair.
It was a horrible wet night and both sides were guilty of loads of dropped ball and both sides could have won it, and will probably feel they should have. I thought Silverwood was quite awful as referee. In a game which was pretty tense but with no malice or nastiness in it, he pretty much lost control at times with both sides clearly annoyed at his strange decisions.