"There are a couple of aspects about the French approach to international rugby that deserve a cautionary comment.
The French TV producers were quick to show replays of a Sean McMahon tackle that was made after a French infringement and deemed by Owens to be dangerous. The penalty kicked following this incident gave France the three points that was the margin of their victory.
Would this decision have been made if the French producers had refrained from re-showing the incident? I doubt it.
But Kafer had pointed to some French deviousness early on in the Test when a discussion between the TMO and Owens was not broadcast for viewers to hear, as it was supposed to. Then we had the McMahon intervention.
But later, when there was a French indiscretion that warranted possibly a sending off, surprise, surprise! There was only one sequence of the incident somehow available for Owens and the TMO to scrutinise.
This is not good enough. The television producers at Paris and at Twickenham last week in the England versus New Zealand match played a role of being a 16th player for the home side. The IRB must start imposing big fines on producers who do this and bans on individual offenders.(Funny that Spiro when the ABs were on the recieving end noone else is complaining but now the Wallabies are also affected, it has to stop Quick, let us all laugh)
*******We can’t have the partisan use of TV replays affecting the outcomes
of matches. This is really cheating on the part of the production teams,
and unacceptable behaviour."
It all started at Ellis Park Spiro if you really wanted to know -->of course you know BUT now the shoe is on the other foot...................so very very sad
