Owen Doyle

It shouldn't happen, but it's happening too often and it's always critical.

And if the referee sees something that he's

That he thinks his foul play, he very rarely will go to the TMO and say, you know, we need to look at that.

And then you hear the captain of the affected team saying, look, there was a high tackle, there was a high hit.

And the referee says, no, no, we've looked at that.

It's OK.

But he hasn't looked at it.

And I detest that.

It's the TMO who's looked at it.

And the other thing they use these processes for is to keep play going.

Now, does that exclude the punter who's paid to go and see the match or was watching it on television from understanding exactly what's going on?

If it went to the referee, perhaps for...

two or three replays, and if he could make his mind up in that period of time, then he should make the decision.

Other than that, it should go to the TMO.

I don't like that the TMO is the primary person in this.

He's the least experienced of the four officials, but maybe he's more experienced than the assistant referee number two.

But the assistant's incorrectly titled because they don't assist.

I mean, there was a Toulon player absolutely taken out off the ball right in front of an assistant referee in the Aviva the other day, and the assistant referee just looks at him.

Is he actually waiting for the TMO to come in and tell him that that's foul play?

Why can't he make his decision himself?