Eddie O'Sullivan

in French rugby yeah and it's been that kind of a tournament hasn't it you tend to you can win several seems to be the trend yes I mean we saw teams like Toulon doing it for years we saw Saracens doing it at the time Raj had a run at it with La Rochelle very unlucky not to win a top 14 lost a top 14 to lose last played a game you know what I mean Leinster once upon a time

Yeah.

So, I mean, like, Bordeaux feel it's their era, I think.

And that means they're going to be pretty hard to crack.

Yeah.

It's crazy, though.

Well, surprisingly to me, surprisingly to me, Joe, is that

It's taken so long to actually call it out.

It's gone on for years.

I remember years ago in France, if it was a foul play, a potential foul play, even before TMOs, if a French player was involved in a foul play, you probably wouldn't see a replay of it.

And on the other hand, if it was the other team, you'd see five or six replays of it.

So they've always put their thumb on the scales, the French directors, in terms of what they show and what they don't show.

It's been on for years.

And how do you fix it?

Well, I suppose the only way to fix it is to have proper protocols in place.

And you mandate the television companies that supply the feed that the TMO is in charge of everything.

And you give them what they want.

There's no doubt there's enough cameras there.

You know, you probably have 32 cameras at that game at least.

So I just think it's, again, you know, it's the old story.