Jones hits back after ‘lucky’ win
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Referee Ben O’Keeffe sent Michael Hooper and Kurtley Beale to the sin-bin and disallowed tries by Hooper and Marika Koroibete for offside, infuriating Wallabies head coach Michael Cheika.
England were the superior team and emerged comfortable winners, but they enjoyed the rub of green including in a key moment when Elliot Daly crossed in the 54th minute.
Repeated viewings by the Television Match Official showed the ball that Daly grabbed possibly grazed the touchline, but there was no doubt over the late tries from Jonathan Joseph, Jonny May and Danny Care that buried the Wallabies.
Jones said: “Why do we have a referee? Why do we have TMOs? How were we lucky?
“They do 10 replays of video and they make a decision. This is the best referee in the world for today. We had the best guys in the TMO and you’re saying we’re lucky because the decisions went our way.” Jones, sarcastically, added: “I’m sorry we’re lucky. I’m sorry, mate.”
Not since the 2015 Rugby World Cup pool stage exit have England lost to the Wallabies, with four wins in 2016 prior to Saturday’s fifth victory in a row.
Jones was overjoyed with the record against his compatriots, referring to his love of cricket and the 1970-71 Ashes series. “It’s nice to win 5-0, but we’re only as good as that game and we have to keep improving,” he added.
Jones is yet to decide whether to change personnel for England’s final Test of 2017, against Samoa next Saturday.
He added: “There is also the possibility we could play the same team and see if we can play better.”
Cheika was seething during the contest, but was more measured in his postmatch comments.
The Wallabies head coach said: “We stayed in the game against a fair bit of adversity and then when the moments came to really get back in the game, to put pressure on England, we made some mistakes, released that pressure, and they were able to capitalise.” SCOTLAND captain John Barclay admitted he was “gutted” after his side fell agonisingly short of a historic win over New Zealand at Murrayfield.
Stuart Hogg came within metres of snatching a dramatic win for the hosts in the dying seconds, but despite his heroics he was unable to prevent a 22-17 defeat.
The All Blacks have never lost to Scotland, and looked to be cruising towards a comfortable but hardfought win at 22-10, only for Huw Jones to score and Hogg threaten to steal the match late on.
Despite a hugely encouraging outing, Barclay and his teammates looked broken at the final whistle and he admitted it was a chance missed. “We had a great mentality today, we know the All Blacks are a very dangerous side,” the captain said.
“We’re obviously gutted, we feel like that’s maybe one that got away but on the other hand, I’m very proud of the way we played, the effort and intensity in what we did out there.” IAN KEATLEY’S two late penalties dug Ireland out of a hole as Joe Schmidt’s experimental side edged out Fiji 23-20.
Joe Schmidt’s men squandered a 17-3 lead built up by tries from Darren Sweetnam, Dave Kearney and Jack Conan, and almost paid the price for fly-half Joey Carbery’s two missed conversions.
Ireland made 13 changes from last weekend’s 38-3 victory over South Africa, and endured some nervy moments en route to their slender win over the Pacific Islanders.
Henry Seniloli and Timoci Nagusa claimed tries for Fiji, with Ben Volavola slotting 10 points from the tee.