In all honesty to concentrate on an incident which may­ or may not have affected the result does nothing but­ negate a true analysis of our national side's­ deficiencies and the fact that Wales did not look like­ scoring a try until the last ten minutes. Players­ picked on past reputation and not on consistent present­ form will always be an Achilles heel to any side. Where­ was the support when A.W Jones made that marvellous­ interception etc. By the way the missed pulling on the­ shorts of A.W. Jones as he tried to prevent the Blacks­ scoring was, in my view, more of a controversial­ incident that positively affected the score.

Hi Duane, yes the All Blacks love to see the Northern­ Hemisphere 'cry about it and moan' but not half­ as much as we like to see the All Blacks whinge and­ moan when World Cup time comes around. Perhaps if they­ spent less time patting their thighs and sticking their­ tongues out before the game they might actually come­ close to winning a World Cup in the professional era. ­ By the way, did some of the All Blacks used to play­ American Football? Only they keep passing the ball­ forward.....

enough about the carter tackle already. if wales (you)­ drew the game you'd be happy, maybe not as much as­ if you won but look at where Martin Roberts feet were­ when the tackle was made, the bloke was about to trip,­ had he been going at pace towards the line the tackle­ would have been around the shoulders and our cover­ defence would still have been there. I don't mean­ to go on but when the blacks are under pressure, even­ when they're down to 14 men they still manage to­ compose themselves and more often than not score! No­ wonder the kiwis (us) love to stick it to the northern­ hemisphere teams. Watching you cry about it and moan is­ just fuel to the fire. If you didn't whinge so much­ the victories wouldn't be quite so sweet, to that­ end, carry on... That said, I think you should be­ thankful, without the video ref a lesser on field ref­ would probably bowed to the pressure and awarded us one­ of the three try scoring opportunities that weren't­ quite there.

on another day it could have been a memorable victory,­ if not a hard earned draw. but lack of composure in the­ final third again undid us! how many times do we see a­ missed lineout when its a pressure throw like on the­ AB's 5 meter line? Huw Bennet should have hit his­ target. a little grubber kick from A W Jones towards­ the far corner for Shanklin and Halfpenny... what ifs­ and maybes...
i thought the ref did a good job, we cant­ complain after the disallowed tries! B Leonards'­ kick in the head was an accident, if it wasnt Mcaw­ would have jumped on stephen Jones lol, he was right­ there.
cartet was a bit high, but he atleast held on­ below the shoulder and completed the tackle, not a­ swinging straight arm.

I think your whistling Dixie here Mr Gatland to try to­ hide the failures in your own selection policy.

close but no cigar. the Carter tackle was a tad high­ but not malicious, his hand was open and not a fist. a­ penalty sure but no yellow or citing needed. We never­ looked like winning the game from the offset but are­ getting closer. we matched them for pace, physicality­ and fitness but its the winning mentality that was­ lacking. if Gatland can install that then we are in­ business. the aussie game will be a corker, us to win­ by 5 points.

Sorry Gats, your clasping at straws.
The All Blacks­ won the game (with 3 tries disallowed via Video Ref)­ although Wales fought very well and deserved credit BUT­ the ref did not change the course of the match. Missed­ oppurtunities by Wales and yes it could have been a­ different result.

Their time will come, save your­ Energy Gatland

Sounds like our bitter lesser rivals to me, like­ England fans, well we came closer than Australia did­ playing the All Blacks.Did not Australia beat you­ really badly. So cymru am byth!

So Why is every other team can blame the Ref apart from­ the All Blacks? Everyone forgotten about the rest of­ the match? The Three Dissallowed tried 2 of which­ probably would have been given if the Cemera guy was in­ the right place or maybe even Brednon Leonard getting­ kicked in the head?

Wales are a good team they just­ ran out of puff get your players into shape and stop­ complaining!

Gatland needs to look at his and his teams performance­ more than the referee. Wales got away with a head high­ tackle very early on - but no mention of that Mr­ Gatland?
They were beaten at the breakdown and­ surprisingly at the line out as well. Carter played­ well but it was not a one man performance, in most­ aspects of the game the all Blacks were a bit better­ than Wales although neither team played at their­ best.
The ABs have played together more recently which­ helps, but they played with more aggression and a bit­ more flair. Although they scored the only try they did­ cross the welsh try-line 4 times - that says a lot. I­ think France will pose a much bigger test for the ABs­ (if France turn up mentally) and Wales need to improve­ to ensure they are not beaten in the next 3­ internationals.

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