20 Comments on "Jonny Wilkinson’s drop-goal – the ref’s view"
Savage Savage 29
Best rugby moment good to see the refs view
rick b
Wobbly wobbly
kaidos 31
Good ref
N C
He was awful. Gave Australia any and every opportunity to get back into the game. Doubt he would have given that offside penalty at the end.
Joe Webb
Imagine having to call that offsides. That would bet the scariest thing ever.
BlackFoxGaming
Respect Andre
Patrick Bourke
The best refs always seem to come from SA.
Jeremy Merrifield
Rubbish performance that night by Watson. He changed the rules half way through to stop England being some dominant. He admitted it to the English guys. And he did not half do some thinking during Dawson passing to Wilkinson. The man is full of shite
angst
If England had known there was an advantage, JW could have deliberately missed the drop attempt and eat the clock up with the penalty so there would have been no restart. Game over.
As it was, there was a restart. If Oz had won the restart and scored, I doubt Andre would be giving this interview. Still, all's well that ends well – small margins.
On a separate note, I was at a rugby dinner in Hong Kong where Jason Leonard was asked about the scrum penalties. He admitted that Watson got it right.
I am English and was at the game. General consensus there was that AW did a pretty good job. England should have won more comfortably in normal time – Ben Kaye missed a certain try and JW 3 missed drops (unusual for him).
sub333
He can spin it how he likes, but he had a shocker that night. England were totally dominant in the scrum, yet in the 2nd half, he kept penalising them. It became personal, which reflects very badly on his part.
Fintan Cook
Martin johnson's HUGE!
Olliejj7 Game
Johnny wilkinson
William Henley
"this game I believe is played in heaven"
Papa Ducknips
Robespierre, it wouldn't work, the games are too different. you couldn't do a scrum because the helmets would be too big.
James Dachs
It's weird to think we would have won if he had missed the drop goal…..
bnzss
Loved the last point – he knew that as a referee he was obliged to give a penalty for offside, but as a rugby fan he wanted the result to come from the players. Totally sympathise with that, and thankfully for him he got his wish!
Vinny Valante
Fantastic point of view. Totally well said Mr Watson!
Perez Tariu
I wanna be a ref…like you….what do i have to do so that i can become a better ref…please…
Michael Gill
Shame he didn't referee the game equitably – not his best performance as an International referee
utuber5055
I thought he was an awesome ref. It'll be interesting to see Joubert's view on 2011 considering the flak he got after the game.
Best rugby moment good to see the refs view
Wobbly wobbly
Good ref
He was awful. Gave Australia any and every opportunity to get back into the game. Doubt he would have given that offside penalty at the end.
Imagine having to call that offsides. That would bet the scariest thing ever.
Respect Andre
The best refs always seem to come from SA.
Rubbish performance that night by Watson. He changed the rules half way through to stop England being some dominant. He admitted it to the English guys.
And he did not half do some thinking during Dawson passing to Wilkinson. The man is full of shite
If England had known there was an advantage, JW could have deliberately missed the drop attempt and eat the clock up with the penalty so there would have been no restart. Game over.
As it was, there was a restart. If Oz had won the restart and scored, I doubt Andre would be giving this interview. Still, all's well that ends well – small margins.
On a separate note, I was at a rugby dinner in Hong Kong where Jason Leonard was asked about the scrum penalties. He admitted that Watson got it right.
I am English and was at the game. General consensus there was that AW did a pretty good job. England should have won more comfortably in normal time – Ben Kaye missed a certain try and JW 3 missed drops (unusual for him).
He can spin it how he likes, but he had a shocker that night. England were totally dominant in the scrum, yet in the 2nd half, he kept penalising them. It became personal, which reflects very badly on his part.
Martin johnson's HUGE!
Johnny wilkinson
"this game I believe is played in heaven"
Robespierre, it wouldn't work, the games are too different. you couldn't do a scrum because the helmets would be too big.
It's weird to think we would have won if he had missed the drop goal…..
Loved the last point – he knew that as a referee he was obliged to give a penalty for offside, but as a rugby fan he wanted the result to come from the players. Totally sympathise with that, and thankfully for him he got his wish!
Fantastic point of view. Totally well said Mr Watson!
I wanna be a ref…like you….what do i have to do so that i can become a better ref…please…
Shame he didn't referee the game equitably – not his best performance as an International referee
I thought he was an awesome ref. It'll be interesting to see Joubert's view on 2011 considering the flak he got after the game.