looked like he waved his flag downwards and pointed to the twenty, will watch again just to make sure, could be wrong

Smith has always been a whining twit when his side gets beaten and Mr. Smug when they win. I have pretty much zero respect for the man TBH. No class whatsoever.

spot on!

just watched it again, linesman does seem to indicate a goal line drop out, must've been the angle of the camera

Which means that pretty much the only person who thought there was a knock-on was a certain Tony Smith.

Quelle suprise.

Odd one. If Briscoe did touch the ball then he was in the field off play and it would have been a handover but non of the officials called that.

Think Smith is over egging the situation and looking more and more like a right whinging #### IMO.

Just watched his effort of a press conference on the Sky roundup program. Pretty much backs up your point.

briscoes first touch was to ground the ball, it was evans who touched the ball twice in the air

i wonder if smith will come out and say he got it wrong!? don't think we should hold our breath!

That was the linesman that made that call, not Ganson. You could see Ganson look to him, and he signalled scrum to Wire. It was the in-goal judge that came on and over ruled him. 3 decisions like that the touch judge made (including where he gave a drop out instead of a try and was ignored thank God!).

I thought Ganson was OK personally and I think some people are looking for excuses instead of praising what was a great performance from both teams today.

Worst decision for me was the one where Briscoe kicked inside to Whiting, Westwood knocks the ball backwards towards his full back but Mckinnon gets there first and gets tackled a yard from the line. That should have been back to 1 as soon as westwood touched the ball!

Pretty much my thoughts. A bloke said to me after the game that Ganson had cost us the win. I said that I thought that Ganson had done ok and that it was us gifting them 3 tries that cost us the win. He looked at me as if I was stupid.

Like you say, its easier to blame the ref.

Just seen the trys, the Briscoe try ceratinly looked dodgy, Ganson never even consulted the linesman who right up with play. Awful refereeing!

Awful touch judging.

Can you explain to me how you think there was any possibility it was a drop out, and I'll explain why you're wrong.

Where did I mention a drop out?

You see a player score a try from 20m out without a hand been laid on him, before the ref points to the spot, they look at both touch judges to see if they are any problems, then they award the try.

In this case he chose not to consult the linesman who also had a good view of the incident and listen to his veiw on things.

So am I now wrong?