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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My goodness.
There's an internal panic.
I mean, donkeys years ago when this came in first, Brian O'Driscoll, France were beating Ireland.
And in the last minute, a guy called Brian Camsell from England, and he was the TMO, one of the earlier TMOs.
He was international ref at the time.
And he said that after O'Driscoll dived over in the corner and the question was, and he dropped it.
ball going over or not and it was one of these dreadfully tight calls and he said one minute I'm on my way down to the bar everything's going smoothly so I'm putting I'm putting my jacket back on and suddenly that happens I think it took about five minutes
to come up with the answer.
And I think Ireland got the try and the win.
But he said it was an awful moment.
He said for all the experience that he had as a ref, that was one of his worst ever moments to be put in that position.
So what will they do for the World Cup?
They're going to bring, normally they bring 12 refs.
I think they'll bring more from the top.
And I think they're going to ask these referees, that group,
to run the TMO booth as well.
They won't particularly like it, but they have the experience on the pitch to do it.
But they don't have experience of being involved in the technical aspects of it.
So going back to the gold standard, they should therefore have an independent TV director with them.
And if somebody's not showing something, he should have the authority with the guy to
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