Quote Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda View Post
No - as the replays clearly show Evans' finger touching the ball so the subsequent grounding debate is irrelevant. Though I still think it is debatable - the wording of the rules say "Is first to ground the ball in the opponents’ in-goal, against the opponents’ goal post or its surrounding padding". Merely touching the ball is not grounding it - surely the first person to ground it was Watson under any reasonable definition.

Speaking of which this is the WRU's own definition:

By holding it and touching the ground with it; or

By pressing down on it with a hand or hands, arm or arms, or the front of the player’s body from waist to neck.

Neither of which Anscombe did. Rolland should have shut his cheating hole. He was a terrible referee and a cheat (it was disgraceful he was ever allowed to ref France games - got away with murder)
Hmmm, that puts you very much in the minority from the reviews I have read. I found it impossible to tell if the ball hit Evans finger or leg, it wasn't clear from the reply imo. And the commentators at the time thought that it clearly hadn't touched his fingers.

'By pressing down on it with a hand' - you don't think Anscombe did this? Looked to me like he did.

I suppose the other side of it is that it was only the Welsh, after. Sorry Mrs SW, just the way it is.