One glaring difference for me, Cardiff knocked on near our line, Rhys Francis collected and kicked, not a very good one but still, no advantage accrued so thought it'll come back for our scrum, nope, Cardiff attacked and scored. Late 2nd half we knocked on Cardiff kicked away across field, we won the ball but.........no advantage accrued so brought back.....Cardiff ball.
We were incredible at every facet and took them to the wire.
Well done Ebbw, not a win but be proud of yourselves.
Hope our injuries are not too bad.
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Re: V Cardiff
I think we won that game fair and square.
Utterly shambolic one sided refereeing from start to (the much much extended) finish.
Not really sure what we did wrong there - we played a good game with mainly solid defence (Except for 2nd week running weak out wide on our right in numbers), scored the points needed and handled it well.
Good committed tackling and competing for every ball throughout.
Referee had a habit of taking play back to a random spot for an incident he didn't call and didn't signal at the time, nor signal advantage for when Cardiff lost the ball in open play.
It happened several times but most obviously for the bizarre winning penalty which seemed to be a 3 minute, 7 phase, 40m advantage for an offence he didn't call or signal at any point from it happening to Cardiff losing the ball.
First half Ebbw break taken out early, without the ball when through on the posts was judged play on (?). Then the yellow card for a handoff on a guy about 2ft off the ground. No consistency at all.
That said i've seen more useful scarecrows than the touch judge who just spent the entire game standing hands on hips laughing and not actually flagging anything at all.
We picked up a few injuries (as you tend to do on the fake pitches, especially ankles) and hopefully they're not too bad.
Tough game to swallow - we did enough to win that game including scoring more points than the opposition and had it snatched way after time by an uncalled, unsignalled, ridiculously long advantage for a mystery offence the ref had forgotten about at the time.
Onwards and upwards. Although next game is annoyingly a Thursday.
Utterly shambolic one sided refereeing from start to (the much much extended) finish.
Not really sure what we did wrong there - we played a good game with mainly solid defence (Except for 2nd week running weak out wide on our right in numbers), scored the points needed and handled it well.
Good committed tackling and competing for every ball throughout.
Referee had a habit of taking play back to a random spot for an incident he didn't call and didn't signal at the time, nor signal advantage for when Cardiff lost the ball in open play.
It happened several times but most obviously for the bizarre winning penalty which seemed to be a 3 minute, 7 phase, 40m advantage for an offence he didn't call or signal at any point from it happening to Cardiff losing the ball.
First half Ebbw break taken out early, without the ball when through on the posts was judged play on (?). Then the yellow card for a handoff on a guy about 2ft off the ground. No consistency at all.
That said i've seen more useful scarecrows than the touch judge who just spent the entire game standing hands on hips laughing and not actually flagging anything at all.
We picked up a few injuries (as you tend to do on the fake pitches, especially ankles) and hopefully they're not too bad.
Tough game to swallow - we did enough to win that game including scoring more points than the opposition and had it snatched way after time by an uncalled, unsignalled, ridiculously long advantage for a mystery offence the ref had forgotten about at the time.
Onwards and upwards. Although next game is annoyingly a Thursday.