Viadana hopes for better luck with referee in return clash

VIADANA coach Jerome Paarwater asks only one thing of ERC for Saturday's return Heineken Cup game with Munster in Parma - a quality referee.

Paarwater stopped short of openly castigating Welsh referee Hugh Watkins at Musgrave Park on Friday but was disappointed with the way his side were treated in a 64-point defeat

"I found some of the decisions amazing. We never got a break during the game. We were adjudged to have committed many technical fouls in the scrums, some in the line-outs as well and we didn't have similar problems in our previous games "I was surprised and dismayed at some of the decisions, particularly the awarding of a penalty try against us. The score at that stage was 50-0 to Munster and, fair enough, a maul did collapse near our line. But I wonder who exactly brought it down and I also wonder whether Munster would have scored anyway. "There were a couple of occasions when Munster did not have the required number of players in the line-outs but that was ignored. It was very frustrating for the players."