was still making his way off the pitch and Heinz was heading down the tunnel. Replacement scrum-half
Youngs appeared ready to come on to replace Heinz, but before he was allowed to Wales fly-half Dan
Biggar took a quick penalty and launched a cross-field kick to Josh Adams, which resulted in opposite wing
George North going over for the try seconds later.
England head coach Eddie Jones refused to criticise the officials after the match for the incident, but while
Youngs was in agreement that the players must learn from it to remain alert at all times, he questioned why
Wales were allowed to play on so quickly when he was later stopped from doing the same.
“Being down to 13 men is never ideal,” Youngs said. “Ant [Watson] came off and then the boys are in a
huddle. Then Willi has come off and I'm waiting to be given the green light to go on.
“Before I know it, Wales are off. It's happened here and I dare say something like that will not happen again.
It's one of those things.
“There's nothing as players that you can do about that except take the one lesson which is don't switch off
when there's a penalty. Dan [Biggar] is a tremendous kicker of the ball, looked at that opportunity and took
it.
George North scored while England were down
to 13 (PA)“I tried to tap later on in the game and for whatever reason - I don't know if it had been planted in his (the
referee's) head that he didn't want anything like that to happen again - but I wasn't allowed to go.
“It is what it is. As long as it's ironed out and doesn't happen in the future I'm sure it will be fine.”
Youngs’ teammate Jamie George was equally as confused, given the understanding among the England
camp was that a sin-binned player had to be removed from the field of play before the match can resume –
although there is no regulation in the World Rugby laws that state this.
“It was an interesting one wasn’t it?” George said. “I don’t know the ruling on that but it seemed like
carnage.
“Willi was coming off, Anthony was coming off, they kicked the ball over Anthony’s head ... I don’t know
what was going on but it was a bit of a weird one.”