tremendous effort by the irish so far

Bentham wants that Anzac gig

getting no help from the ref at all

Utterly pathetic from Bentham it must be 10-1 penalty count

i know ireland are hanging on too much in the tackle but the aussies should have been pinged 3 or 4 times and bentham's ignoring it

Bentham wants to follow Smith and Klein to the NRL by the looks of it.

Has anyone noticed which teams are playing in the Saturday night Phil Bentham show?

He is being bloody biased to the Aussies. he isn't consistent. I actually think he is being harsh on the Irish and several of the penalties have been poor decisions by him.

he is also ruining the game as a spectacle. By constantly pinging he isn't allowing the game to flow and the crowd are getting peeved off with him.

I think the Aussies wouldn't actually mind the level of slowing down the Irish are doing as they are doing the same to the Irish on the few times they have had the ball.

It's just like watching Al-ib-ert!!!

eveytime the ball has come free in the tackle for ireland - knock on

Comes free in the tackle from australia - penalty for reef

Aussies mess around at the play the ball - nothing

Ireland lie on a second too long - penalty

The refereeing is lopsided, unintentional or not he's not treating both teams the same.

FFS bentham you gutless worm.

Maybe Bentham is acting as a referee.

In which case, "Break a leg, Phil"

He's definitly not acting. With that in mind...

Break a leg phil.

I've switched off. Fed up of watching the Phil Bentham show. Spineless.

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...

The sad thing is that this is deep in RU country and the perception of our game being Stop/Start is being realised by this p1$$ p00r excuse for a referee.

10-1 it is. I'm going for 2nd set for their 11th