Match Thread

[WonkyWasp]

30 - 25.  Tom Willis  (fav, Wasp) Red time. 81.10.   High  tackle on  Charlie.  Ref bottles it  IO penalty.  Finish.  M o M: David Ribbans.   Wasps in 8th place.  I neeed a darkened room.

[loverugby1979]

Hughes . I think that he has tu put a f**** glasses in his face.

He has the worst peformance from a TMO that i have ever seen in my life.

[Mellie]

Hughes has been atrocious from the start. Wasps were shafted by him. Seemed to be looking for reasons to penalise us when intervening and failed to say anything when there was clear evidence of Saints indiscretions. Also argued the ref out of a clear penalty at the end. He should not be seen in the Premiership again.

[Rossm]

He's screwed us before. Missed the eye gouge on Josh.

[Neils]

Hughes . I think that he has tu put a f**** glasses in his face.

He has the worst peformance from a TMO that i have ever seen in my life.

He continually penalises Wasps.

[RBB]

The TMO is an absolute disgrace -

BIGGAR SHOULD HAVE SEEN RED
RIBBANS KNOCKS THE BALL ON AND WOOD SCORES
RIBBANS THEN GOES HIGH on CHARLIE, DEEMED AS FINE

Ridiculous and he should never see the inside of a TMO van again, or be allowed anywhere near a rugby ground.....

[JonnyD]

Regardless of the officials we were just not good enough, penalties in the first half were almost becoming embarrassing, losing or giving away possession too easily and gave them far too much ground every time they had the ball.
Disappointed but don’t think we deserved to win either

[Shugs]

How frustrating is that. Not sure what we've done to Graham Hughes but he's absolutely determined not to give us anything. First try - Biggar's kick from hand is 20 yards ahead of the offence. Clear knock on by Ribbons for their try - not even looked at. Biggar hit to Umaga's head - missed. It really is just not good enough officiating.

[NellyWellyWaspy]

To my mind we lost that for two reasons.

The early rash of penalties, and appalling ref/TMO team. Not sure which was worse, the TMO I think was the overriding factor. It wasn't just the smash to Jacob or the knock on in the lineout. They dropped the maul just in front of the line and many times crawled round the blind side of the ruck, to which the line ref was totally blind. Sorry to say, that was our match and we were robbed by very poor reffing.

3 out of 3 losses with that ref. Not surprised.

[Mellie]

Austin Healey should be appointed TMO. He is so much better than the official muppet when commentating.

He might be useful as a coach at Wasps too. He is quite insightful. Spots things the players don't.

[bigad82]

Poor performance today by Wasps.
The TMO was much much worse.
Graham Hughes should never be TMO again.

[Rossm]

Frankly, with all the kit he's got, the TMO should only rarely get it wrong. Today was a disgrace and I'm very angry about it. I'll calm down soon but he has really pissed me off. It's getting to the point when I'm starting to think that Hughes has his own agenda where Wasps are concerned.

[Wombles]

I did not think we deserved to win today, and to say Hughes cost us would be to cover our own deficiencies..and these need the full light of day to deal with. But no one can defend the TMO anymore, and he has to be stood down..the game has gone beyond his ability.

[loverugby1979]

He's screwed us before. Missed the eye gouge on Josh.

Bufff, in this match, he had many chances for take the lead and take a deep chance to check  it. It was very very suspect from his side.

In this match he had a mare and take to lead very quickly over the novel ref to do his own choices and did several blatant errors.

On the other hand, we played very poor, but we could win without this cheaps shot and after of that, with a blatant knock on for their final try.

[MarleyWasp]

After the Thorley and Carreras incidents, I thought my expectations for Hughes were low. Had he performed at the level I expected we'd have won that. Instead I really overestimated his abilities.

Players are not safe with him as a TMO. I'd 110% back Wasps if we refused to play any match he is assigned to.