PETER JACKSON

A CURIOUS exchange took place outside the Ulster dressing room last Saturday night, one which highlighted the professional game’s persisting failure to enforce one of the oldest lawsin the book.
As the home team filed out for the second half of their Champions Cup tie against Clermont, referee Luke Pearce had a few quiet words with Michael Lowry, suggesting that he put the ball a little straighter in the scrum.
An official advised Pearce that he had mistaken Lowry for the actual scrum-half, Nathan Doak.
Doak fed the next Ulster scrum without altering his position, ...