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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Well, that's tough.
I think we've got to live with those errors after the match if we go through a proper process that is more involving the referee.
It was happening in France.
So it was addressed with the French.
In fact, as far as I remember, the director of referees in the EPC or then the ERC, Donald Courtney, as far as anybody went over to France to meet everybody, and they all reassured him that, look, you're right, we're absolutely, we haven't been making errors, but we will re-emphasize.
the need to show everything that we think is foul play.
But that's 20 years ago.
And we now still have queries that I think do have validity because if they're saying we will show everything that we're asked to show and nobody asks them, they won't show it if it's against their own team or they're unlikely to show it.
Yeah, well, exactly.
But it's a professional sport.
If you have to get everything right, then you need you need to have what you refer to as the gold standard every time that you that you've got matches like this.
And the difficulty now is for is for world rugby or watching all of this.
And there are some great guys in there and they're saying, what are we going to do with the World Cup?
because of the level of experience of TMOs.
I mean, I see guys that refereed maybe 15, 20 years ago coming out of the woodwork now, and they're becoming TMOs.
And they didn't referee any higher, the equivalent, say, of the All-Ireland League Division 1.
And they might have been tried in the URC, the Magnus League, as it was called then.
And they're doing it and they're genuine guys and they're nice guys, but they don't have the experience.
And there's nothing like sitting down, you know, probably if you haven't got the requisite experience and you're doing something and it's all going really, really well.
And then something happens.
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