Owen Doyle
speaker
830 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Owen Doyle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And also, as far as I'm aware, looking at the television screen is two dimensional, whereas the referee on the pitch sees something in three dimensions.
They're trying to go down that road, but a lot of former referees don't want to go down that road.
I mean, Alain Roland was the prime example.
He said, nothing in God's earth will get me into that booth.
I do not want to do that job.
There's a World Cup final referee being absolutely adamant it's going to have nothing to do with it.
So a lot of them don't want to do it.
People like Ben Whitehouse, great guys, are people who were tried at international level and actually didn't make it.
They were tried at European level and didn't really make it.
He refs in the URC.
There's nothing against him.
Everybody has their ceiling.
That's where he's reffing, and the rest of his life he's in the TMO booth.
But whatever happened, and I don't know if he missed it or if he missed those three instances.
Now, Brian O'Driscoll made a very good point that the Luca thing was seen.
There were two replays.
So if there were two replays on that and he didn't deem it to be
something he should refer back to the referee, then he's wrong on that one.
But on the other two, I mean, there was one offense, the second one was the worst that I saw.
That was down to the TV director because he must have missed it.
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