Owen Doyle
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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.
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.
So if he's missed it and the TV director is saying, well, this is against the French team, I don't have to say anything or do anything unless I'm asked to do it by the TMO who's in control of the process.
I'm not in control of the process.
As I said, it's a bit disingenuous.
If it happened the other way around, I would better,
my mortgage on it, that he would have shown it.
I think you'd have to look at EPCR who run these competitions as to why they didn't have the gold standard.
Now, they've now said that there is going to be an independent TV director with the TMO, which is the standard that we definitely, the minimum standard that we need.
I mean, I don't think for a second that this cost Bath the match, but actually, you never know.
The dynamic changes completely.
when the team were down to 14.
I mean, it changed completely when Leinster were down to 13.
They suddenly got their gander up.
So you don't know what's going to happen.