An utterly pathetic, pedantic display from Bentham has completely robbed the Irish of any chance of keeping it close. They've tackled like demons and he's shafted them several times. The Aussies don't need any help. Fair enough if the Irish were taking people's heads off, but debatable penalties for fractionally delaying the best side in the world - no need. He could at the very least penalise both team's holding down...

he also said the same about irish players creeping forward

if this had been a super league game and ireland were say..hudds, london, widnes etc they would be crucified for slowing the game down and not letting the better team play at a faster pace..for me bentham did well not to sin bin the irish number 9, yes australia did slow the game down at the play the ball but because of the amount of time with the ball australia didnt do it anywhere near as much as the irish so the penalty count would be one sided

It's a typical Bentham performance

They did it all the time against England and never got penalised by Perenara.

Not watching it and glad I didn't by the sounds of it.
The refs for international games are a joke.

The top 3 get everything then when in come to England vs oz, oz get every 50:50 call

So frustrating because nothing will be done