England win shows TMO should decide every try

COLIN BOAG

Correct call: The TMO ruled out Michael Hooper ‘s score for Australia

There are still those who moan about use of the TMO, but the England v Australia match was surely the perfect answer to them. Without his involvement the score might have been very different, with tries that weren ‘t actually tries being allowed, and perfectly valid ones being ruled out – in other words, the wrong team might easily have won.
What we want in every match is to have the correct result after 80 minutes – that has to be the most important thing. Far from disrupting play, t...

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