How does thus guy get such a gig? Terrible call

Agree how did he get the gig but to be fair I thought from one of the camera angles he did look out (but only just )

Shocking ref, poor touchjudge...Guilty of treason Him

Smug little too...

Charnley's casual chase back was more irritating though

His foot touched the whitewash as far as I could see, so correct decision. He should have taken note of how Billy Slater deals with balls like that.

It probably was only by a toe or so. Hicks was pointing down at the line to indicate "look there's a mark" so no complaints.

The chase caused all the problems. (For MINE).

Had he put more speed into chasing back, it would never have been so close. There where 3 - 4 footsteps that where dodgy in terms of how close he was to the line. It should not be such a fine call on a pretty much nothing kick.

Thoought it was his heel - twice.

Exactly !

He was probably in touch but agree about Hicks. He should be watching the WC from his sofa at home.

I don't think he was and even on the video with super close up, there was no angle that proved definitively that he was. On most of them there appeared to be clear green between foot and line.

There is no chance Hicks, running and bobbing up and down could see that and judge it, even if it is proven that he did touch the line. It's what the bloody video ref is for, the ref was all too willing to only use it against England today.

There was doubt about his foot being in touch but what got my back up was that the ref did not go to the video? a few odd calls, for me the main one when he called chase to move round the scrum as the Aussies were actually feeding the scrum how were they expected to get set? the ref should stop trying to coach, if Chase was wrong penalise him. I was happy with England there is hope in that performance.

I agree. Also, did the ref go to the screen every time we scored, but not every time for the Ozzies?

We seem to get this every tournament. The Ozzies don't need any help from the officials . The worst or biased official I have ever seen was Bill Harrigan, now he was shameful.

I remember Tony archer in the 4n game at Melbourne being particularly bad.