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Another one of 'those' decisions but over the years many teams have been badly hurt as a result of similarly dubious decisons in big matches like this. There's no doubt in my mind that it was a yellow card offence but as for the red, well I've heard the IRB's rules effectively took the decision out of the ref's hands. As I stated earlier in this thread, I reckon there must be room for some form of intervention in cases likes this. If the TMO can ruminate for an eternity over the grounding of a ball I don't see why there shouldn't be some form of review system when a big decision is clearly contentious.

All that having been said, the final penalty chance for Wales should have been a French penalty and I don't suppose the Welsh fans would've complained too much about winning in that manner had the kick gone over. Winning is what matters and you can say what you like about the French but they're in the final and the home nations aren't. Furthermore, they haven't got there playing pretty rugby or even winning all their matches but the history books won't care about any of that. The Welsh will rue their missed kicks and the dithering right at the death which led to them wasting a good drop goal chance.

Tomorrow's game ought to be a cracker and I hope it lives up to its billing.