It wasn't the best opening weekend of the Six Nations if you're Welsh, but the juices are certainly flowing ahead of a massive second round of action.
In terms of refereeing, the area that naturally catches my eye, there were no real controversies around officiating on the first weekend.
There were some complaints about Scotland's penalty try, but there's no debate there.
As weekends go, it was pretty below the radar - which is exactly what you want as a referee.
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However, there'll be a step up in intensity this weekend. Wales need to improve against a confident Scotland, England travel to face an Italy side who look to have improved weekend and then there's the massive clash between the two favourites, France and Ireland.
Expect things to go up a level this weekend in terms of spectacle and physicality. In turn, that makes things more difficult for referees.
But I have to say I'm really looking forward to this weekend's action.
I was in Edinburgh working on the Calcutta Cup on the opening weekend of the Six Nations. It was an enjoyable game - exciting and close.
The results on the opening weekend went the way I thought they would. I thought it would be tough to win in Dublin and that Ireland wouldn't give us much.
We didn't get a penalty until after the game was effectively over. But Wales will find another level this week. They'll all be disappointed and I expect them to bounce back and beat Scotland.
Scotland played well against England but I thought England were the better side until the penalty try. They looked like the side in control and looked like the side who were going to win that game.
They are probably kicking themselves they didn't. In fact, the the kick to the corner instead of the posts for three points at the end of the game may come back to haunt them when it comes to the final table of the Six Nations.
But, instead, an opportunity came along and Scotland won it. I don't think Scotland are coming here as red-hot favourites. I don't think their performance was anywhere near Ireland's on the weekend.
Dublin's a tough place to go too, after all. Some of the great Welsh sides have lost there in the past and we haven't won there in the Six Nations since 2012. It's a tough place to go at the best of times and with the injuries we have, it was expected to be honest.
But I just think Wales will bounce back against Scotland.
Of course, Nic Berry, who ran touch last week, will be reffing in Cardiff this weekend. He was a very talented scrum-half at Wasps and Racing Metro before he retired due to concussion.
He's ran touch for me a few times and I've ran touch for him as well - including in his first Six Nations game.
He's a very talented referee, but obviously when you come to referee the Six Nations, it's a very different game to Super Rugby and the Rugby Championship where the weather is better, the games are high-scoring and the breakdown and scrum isn't always contested as much.
Wales and Scotland are two teams with back-rows who will go hard in that area. It'll be very contestable and it might be a different type of game to what Nic is used to, but he'll have prepared for that.
Everyone will remember Nic, unfortunately, for the Rassie Erasmus video, but as a referee you have to forget that and move on.
It's always difficult for a referee when a coach comes out like that, whether it's something general said after a game or if the press are on your back.
It's difficult as a referee but you're doing the job because you're able to deal with that.
But when it became more personal with Rassie, with the suggestions of bias and treating the two captains differently. Reading the World Rugby reports, there were emails going back and fourth. That crossed a line and it would have been very difficult to deal with, especially when you're being character assassinated in the press in South Africa.
I've been in situations in the past where I've been hurt by things that have been said, but I've never had to put up with what Nic had to put with.
It's a difficult place to be at times, but the other referees would have rallied around him.
As a referee, there are always things that you may have done differently and you learn things from every game you take charge of.
You also learn and move on from it and put in a performance that shows how capable an official you are.
It could be the case for him on Saturday that he has to roll his sleeves up and get stuck into it. He's certainly gaining experience and I'm sure he's prepared for what's in store. As always, I wish him the very best.
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