Tony award just the ticket

MUNSTER players central to the crucial penalty try decision on Saturday are convinced referee Tony Spreadbury got it just right.

Spreadbury's run to the posts after a Bourgoin scrum collapsed on their own line in the 74th minute of a tense and error-ridden encounter looked incredibly harsh.

The French had only seven in the set piece because of a sin binning and it was the first time the scrum had engaged. Munster got on a mighty shove and as they drove Bourgoin back Spreadbury, without hesitation, came to his all-important conclusion. Munster's Anthony Foley and Paul O'Connell were in the thick of it all and described what happened.