No try
Dan Biggar lost the ball when he was tackled by James Parsons, the Blues hooker, and Rieko Ioane ran 60 metres to touch it down
Parsons was alongside Biggar when the Lion caught the clearance kick and was therefore offside. Parsons does not retire from the ten-metre area when the ball is kicked and moves only when the fly half catches the ball, he then tackles him when Biggar has run ten metres but is never onside. The Lions had the option of a penalty kick at the place of the infringement or a scrum where the ball was kicked, which is what they opted for. The scrum should have been eight metres closer to the Blues’ tryline.
2 Try
A penalty kick rebounded off the post, was knocked down beyond the tryline and Sonny Bill Williams won the race to touch it down
Pascal Gaüzère, the referee, could not have seen in real time whether or not there was a knock-on from TJ Faiane as the replacement centre, reached for the ball in competition with Jack Nowell after it had rebounded off the post. Gaüzère’s question to the TMO had to be: “Try, yes or no?” That puts the onus on the TMO to prove a try has been scored. The TMO concluded from the footage that Nowell, the Lions wing, had knocked the ball backwards, with no touch from Faiane and so awarded the try.
3 Yellow card
Liam Williams was penalised for tackling his opposite number in the air twice in quick succession, when he clearly had his eyes on the ball on both occasions
The referee can only judge on outcome. In the first incident, Williams was looking at the ball but then realised he would not get there first and tackled the man in the air. It was only a penalty and well handled by the referee. The second incident was very similar and had it been another Lion I suspect it would only have been a penalty but because it was a repeat offence, Gaüzère had to send him to the sin-bin. It was at the bottom end of the yellow card scale, though.