URC Week 18 - Last day of the regular season

I don't think the TMO said they had reviewed everything, they said they couldn't find it. It sounded like they were initially looking at the wrong time, and then Piardi was rushing them once they got the right time from the AR. It was a bit of a cop out, imo. If it was a punch, or a bite, I don't think they'd have just moved on. Piardi made it clear he just wanted to get on with the game rather than take the time to be sure of whether there was footage or not. Terrible refereeing imo.

Casey is immense when he's on form, but he's been fairly inconsistent this year (he even had some poor moments early on in this game). And when he's has a poor game, it tends to go very poorly. Doak has had a better season, imo, but if they're both on form, I'm not sure there's that much between them. Both are still a way of an in-form JGP.

I have a sneaking suspicion Connacht are gonna turn Glasgow over, given Glasgow's recent form and injuries. I really hope they do. I think they're going to be a bloody tough team to face next season.

Munster with a far more "Munster" performance tonight. Committed, dogged, proper intensity and effort, much more fight, and more leadership on display. Think the younger players need to be stuck with. Someone mentioned that Gleeson is gonna overtake Coombes, but for me he already has. O'Connell was excellent tonight too.

Games stop for ages all the time. Certain things are worth getting to the bottom of. If Munster had lost, with Jonker having scored a try in the last minute, there'd be absolute uproar about deciding to leave it for the citing commissioner. Piardi caused the delay himself, imo, by sending the TMO to look at the wrong ruck. How he handled it contributed to the delay, then he got stroppy with the delay. Anyway, whatever. If you want to get on with the game in a scenario where there's an allegations of specific acts of foul play like biting, spitting, stamping, etc, I think the laws should make it possible to issue a red card a few minutes later when the angles have been found. If someone stamps on a player's face in the first 5 minutes of a game, or bites someone, or spits in someone's face, and the ref moves on because its taking too long for his taste to find the incident and present footage, that's the difference between 15 v 14 for 75 minutes, and 15 on 15. For all that people romanticise rugby values, this kind of thing, imo, is an example of how some refs values totally overindex on "keeping the game flowing".