Royals divided over World Cup

The technology will benefit the Television Match Official (TMO) who will be able to monitor the footage from the cameras. “They shouldn’t have changed it – even though the decision was right”.

“But to be honest the Fijians got away with a whole lot in the scrum”.

The company also advised people travelling to Cardiff from Bridgend, Pencoed, Llanharan, Pontyclun and Cwmbran, Pontypool and Abergavenny to catch the earliest trains possible as carriages will already be busy by the time they reach those stations.

Jaco Peyper was a good 20 metres behind the play when Niko Matawalu crossed for what looked like a brilliant try against England, but he awarded the score while still sprinting to the three bodies by the corner flag.

The TMO seemed happy with his intervention and gave a hearty agreement.

In this case, no referral should have been necessary. He is to be managed by the referee but, like the touch judges, he can intervene at any time. We should all take pride in where we are from and have the confidence to know that we can tackle any eventuality that life throws at us both good and bad.

As well as offering some advice to the amateur teams competing at the Smallest Rugby Club World Cup, Sir Clive Woodward commented that England need to treat their next fixture against Wales as a must win fixture and warned that Warren Gatland will be looking forward to attempting to causing an upset.

In 2012, he was named IRB world player of the year for the second time, and in 2013 he became just the fifth New Zealander to play 100 Test matches – though he had to leave the field after less than half an hour of that milestone game against England at Twickenham.

Famously dubbed “Le Crunch”, anyone with even the most passing of knowledge of Anglo-French relations will understand some of the reasons for the spiky nature of this contest.

“We are not anxious about the comparisons”, he told Sports Mole.

Suddenly, I heard the TMO screaming, “Check, check – risky play – clean-out with no arms, Uruguay 6″. As soon as a referee began drawing rectangles in the air, there were groans in the crowds and on social media. The schedule for pool play goes from September 19 through the beginning of October and then things move into the knockout stage. Significantly, there was no yellow card.

The referee is in charge, not the TMO.

A step too far?

The ultimate aim of the tournament is to spread the rugby gospel to wider audiences and most importantly younger generations.

“I probably only see them about 50% of the year, which can be really challenging”, he says. Mostly the rivarly is knockabout stuff – in classic Aussie fashion, one of the country’s newspapers offered its readers a free voodoo doll of Sonny Bill Williams during the 2011 World Cup – but if their paths were to cross in England 2015, stand well back.

“The level of intensity between the two was miles apart with the league derby head and shoulders above the union game, as it had hardly any stoppages whereas most the England backs could have watched Netflix for 30 minutes before ever seeing any sight of the ball”, he wrote.

This has resulted in some commentators accusing referees of being afraid to make decisions.

It makes the Welsh preparation a little bit more hard.