Great game. Shame Dave Ward is rubbish at throwing and that Bothma absolutely bombed that try. I'm usually pretty sanguine about refs but he gave us basically nothing at the breakdown - there was one moment where Robshaw was on the ball for about 5 seconds and he still wouldn't give the penalty - and the Sarries offsides in the first half bordered on the comical. Guess that's what you get when you start the match after the ref's bedtime. He was stupidly pedantic about the lineout gap and the chat as well - who cares if someone's having a word with the opposition, honestly? - and not particularly even-handed with it either. Joe having a word = penalty, Sarries player dunking someone in the back of the head on the floor = absolutely fine apparently.
Couldn't fault the approach taken by either side and aside from a couple of poor performances on our side (Visser was awful!) I think that game did both teams justice.
A word for Nathan Earle, who was fantastic today. Great to see.