Quote Originally Posted by World's End Stella View Post
I assume you and BGs both agree that was a try for the Welshers on Saturday? Quite how the TMO misses that I don't know.

He seemed to introduce the idea of having the ball under control when you touched it down, but the rules I read in the papers made no mention of this.

Bizarre.
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)