Owen Doyle

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830 appearances 8 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Sep

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The Counter Ruck: The Irish Times Rugby Podcast · Is rugby’s TMO process fair? · 8 May 2026 podcast

to make sure it's asked and it's put up.

Because it's got to be equitable across all the matches.

But if you go back to 2019, when the high tackle thing was brought in first, and brought in very late, Alain Roland was in charge of the referees for that World Cup.

And he went around all the unions and all the coaches and explained exactly what was going to happen in terms of high tackles.

But it was too late.

People couldn't change with a click of their fingers how they were tackling.

So we had all these sort of, oh, God, is that a red card?

Isn't it a red card?

And it really, you know, to a large extent, it spoils the tournament.

because they went in too late with it.

I think they could probably go with the GMO being one of the referee panels for the World Cup.

I think that could be the way to go.

Good question.

Everybody wants to get the main job.

And I think when they get another job like assistant referee, they're probably perfectly happy, to be honest.

I think this will have to be explained to them.

There'll have to be some education.

And again, I don't know if there are enough of them.

I mean, it's an absolute shame right now that if you go down through the international referee list, you don't have that many who you would wish to put into a quarterfinal.

And I hate saying in my day, but if you go back to the 91 or 95 World Cup, when it was amateur, I mean, you had about six refs you could put into the quarterfinals.

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