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Eyebrow-raising decisions aside, the tendency for Eddie Jones’s side to blow too hot let them down badly against Wales
It’s one of the great truisms that you don’t notice the best referees. Like the roof over your head, or a train that arrives on time, when they work they pass unremarked. Even when they don’t, whatever you think is often better left unsaid. Partly because it is so easy to moan about what is ultimately a very hard and thankless task, and partly because it’s a way down towards the bottom of the list of the interesting things about the sport, somewhere between the intricacies of binding techniques and the variety of grass the ground staff used for the pitch.
Sometimes, though, they just don’t leave you much choice. And passing over Pascal Gaüzère’s performance here wouldn’t be ignoring the elephant in the room, but the blue whale in the wardrobe, too. Continue reading...