The people who said Leinster’s Luke McGrath should not been sent off against Bulls were wrong
Officials should not be able to hear pundits such as Austin Healey during matchesJack Conan takes starting opportunity with both hands in comfortable Leinster victory
It might also explain the odd moments when a pundit makes a statement, quickly followed by a very similar opinion from the TMO, which doesn’t take much guessing as to where it may have originated. In the interests of credibility, this all needs to be fixed. The protocol is being assessed, to see whether TMO input can be reduced. Plenty of ideas, but all increase the chance for error, and team coaches will hardly be happy to concede tries that have contained even a small infringement in the build-up. Perhaps they would accept it initially, but I can see them running out of road pretty quickly, there is far too much at stake.
So, maybe there’s room for some protocol tweaking here, by insisting the referee judges what he sees, rather than waiting to hear confirmation. But, overall, the protocol has become so embedded into the fabric of the game that it’s hard to see room for radical change.
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