You work out what his hot spots are,and you make sure you don't infringe there if you want to win the game.
Last week Daffyd refused to call "not rolling away" or "not releasing the tackled player" to the overwhelming benefit of the yarps, who obstructed those specific laws to their benefit.
This week, when Australia (and exclusively Australia, he didn't call it when Argentina did it) attempted to utilise the same tactics - which I think is reasonable considering he established a precedent for ignoring those infringements - he destroyed us for it.
None of this has to do with discipline. The Australians certainly break rules, there's no denying that, but literally every other international test XV does as well!
The reality is that every team breaks the same laws with the same frequency, and instances in which there's a penalty count as skewed as today's (and last week's) don't indicate that one team is worse behaved than the other. The only thing it shows is that the ref. went into the game with a loaded agenda, as he did last week. He effectively had one eye open - he ignored cases where Argentina broke rules, even when he had a precedent to call them from earlier incidents involving Australia, and at every possible opportunity he would look for a reason to penalise Australia.
Putting his biases to one side, he just made a lot of incompetent calls. In the first few minutes for instance they knocked on, but got the scrum fed because he had a brain snap; the yellow card on Hooper was a disgrace, the Folau incident was a disgrace, Kuridrani scored his 2nd try, and so on.
I swear, one of these days I'm going to do a Green and Gold style analysis of every fuck up and prejudiced decision these refs make against us. I will go through each ruck, maul, line out, scrum, etc simply to prove my point to a non-existent audience.
Rant over, death to Daffyd.
