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Owen Doyle

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297 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Counter Ruck
Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

And she said more or less, well, I have, I have enough evidence to see that I shouldn't have awarded the try.

The Counter Ruck
Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

So we're going 22 meter drop up.

The Counter Ruck
Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

Everybody accepted it because it was the correct decision.

The Counter Ruck
Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

And she's very good at that.

The Counter Ruck
Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

And that's where I think they need to educate the referees.

The Counter Ruck
Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

This is, we want smart, fast decisions.

The Counter Ruck
Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

And if something shows like the next day that, oh yeah, would have touched his shoulder before it took his head off and it shouldn't have been a red card.

The Counter Ruck
Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

Well, that's tough.

The Counter Ruck
Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

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.

The Counter Ruck
Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

It was happening in France.

The Counter Ruck
Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

So it was addressed with the French.

The Counter Ruck
Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

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 Counter Ruck
Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

the need to show everything that we think is foul play.

The Counter Ruck
Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

But that's 20 years ago.

The Counter Ruck
Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

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.

The Counter Ruck
Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

Yeah, well, exactly.

The Counter Ruck
Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

But it's a professional sport.

The Counter Ruck
Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

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.

The Counter Ruck
Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

And the difficulty now is for is for world rugby or watching all of this.

The Counter Ruck
Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

And there are some great guys in there and they're saying, what are we going to do with the World Cup?