Owen Doyle
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It's reached the yellow card threshold, but they don't make any decision about saying has reached the red card threshold.
So there's going to have to be a change in that because the French are absolutely adamant that they have to have the straight red card on the pitch.
And there's another way out of that that you tell, you say that the guy in the bunker can give a straight red.
So he's got three options and it stays yellow.
It goes to 20 minute red or no, that's so bad.
So the guy is not going to be replaced.
The French are absolutely adamant.
Yeah, I definitely think so.
And if you actually look at foul play, there's very little foul play, very few high tackles in the Six Nations.
And that's being emulated in all competitions.
And that is down not just to the referee, but it's also down to the coaches.
The coaches have at last taken responsibility to ensure the tackling is correct.
So it's definitely lowered.
And as recent as two years ago, two seasons ago, we were getting like every single match.
And now we're not getting.
And that's down to, I mean, the referee stuck to their task.
I mean, what's really interesting, Nathan, is that for years, the coaches would say, oh, no, no, that's just part of the game.