Williams and Thurston with high tackles.

Hate to do this, but I agree.

But they play for Australia so that makes it alright

Glad to see the game isn't out of our reach. But surely Thurston should have been given at least 10 minutes for that tackle.

Enough time for him to be sat on the sidelines instead of kicking the Aussies ahead.

English fans bleating about the officials, yet they have kept us in the game so far. Poor decisions have evened up IMO.

We have no right to be complaining about the refereeing given the terrible/bent Ian Smith decision disallowing Australia's 2nd try, JJB's knock-on given as a penalty giving us position for our try, and a Tomkins knock-on under another bomb ruled as a Boyd knock-on under our posts.

Under which rule should Thurston have got 10?

Behave. Two wrongs don't make a right and all that. Thurston should have walked.

Is it just me that thinks the foul play was the knee to the face rather than Thurston's high shot? That's the reason it was a penalty try IMO.

I wouldn't disagree, but the Thurston 'tackle' is an odd one.....He showed no intention to go for anything else but Hall's head....It was a definite 10 minutes and a ref with balls could easily have been within his rights to show a red.