John O'Sullivan

So all of this just lends to a conspiracy theory that the French TV broadcaster will show something that will have a positive outcome for the French side and they will not show any replays of something that might go against the French side.

In the middle, if you like, is a TMO sitting in a booth

who is supposed to have access to as many replays in different angles as the host broadcaster has, he doesn't intervene.

So it seems ridiculous that you can get stills of the Barbary incident and yet it wasn't seen.

How do they have an angle for this?

of the Barbary incident that wasn't seen by the TMO and wasn't available for replays or that the referee in question, and I thought Nika Amashikele struggled in the game as well a little bit.

every head-on-head touch is reviewed it always is there's multiple clips on it for it suddenly to be absent is concerning but also like very disappointing yeah bordeaux got a penalty because the the uh there were there were three or four replays immediately after an incident in which they hadn't got it they hadn't the crowd reacted to what they saw on the screen in the replays

And Amisha Kelly changed his mind and gave a penalty.

Yeah, that was when Olly Lawrence jumped on a mall, wasn't it?

Yeah, it was.

Yeah, yeah.

And you were kind of thinking, look, this is crazy.

The integrity of the competition is lost a little bit here with this sort of carry on.

And it's very frustrating.

And let's remember...

players are playing you know for a place in a uh in a champions cup final there's so much at stake for the players in the game and to have issues relating to uh transparency you know to to allow the game to be officiated and also to be you know in a transparent manner is those questions shouldn't be there it's it's very frustrating to to watch this and i also think it doesn't help

the officials and for me as well also i think that and it's another day's discussion i do think that referees need to stop waiting for a voice in their ear to tell them what to think or tell them what to see or tell them what has been seen it they need to referee what's in front of them as well and i think that's a failing a general failing that i see you know at times you can spot stuff and you're thinking how can you not see this you're four feet away from it and instead you're waiting for it to be communicated in by somebody else

Yeah, it would have been the biggest game, but Folster's injury list, to be honest.

I think Munster would have started as 11-point favourites.

I think the spread is 23, something like that.