Tommy Bowe

And he's there.

And Romain Poit, like this French, like, you know, he looks like a schoolteacher almost.

And he was there.

I think he had like a tattoo on his chest.

Of course he did.

It was not what I was expecting.

In the middle of this nightclub, giving it stacks.

Brilliant.

So I know we have a picture of him and we're all like all over each other.

And he literally just reffed us or he was on the touch judge or whatever else he was saying.

Robert Watts over there that is so good same I remember we were in Japan and this is going back a long long time and Nigel Whitehouse I think was there oh what a man now there's proper old school you know what I mean old school and there's a couple I think maybe Nigel Owens was there as well I think it was maybe his first time first cap as a ref we were all in this bar drinking sake I mean like yeah

I don't know if the players get to do that anymore with the referees but back then jeez you could you'd bump into these guys and you see them in a completely different context to being on the pitch where you're having a yes sir no sir three bags full sir and it was just great to actually have a beer with them and then a couple of years later or a couple of weeks later or months later you'd see them in the dressing room and up in Belfast and there's just you know they're there with the job on and I'm there with the job on we both look at each other and go let's not talk about that yeah

And to be fair to Wayne, he had no harm, Mick.

Exactly as you say, he'd do you.

Like...

In crucial stages of matches, he had no problem making the tough decision.

And sometimes he got it right, sometimes he got it wrong.

And that must have been very difficult as him, if looking back on it, he got it wrong and it had a huge impact.

Like, I even just think about it in 2009.

Remember Paddy Wallace?