We fought the law and the law won

WHEN will Irish teams, especially those with a half dozen experienced Munster players in key positions, ever truly understand the laws of rugby football?

True, they are intricate and mystifying at times, but we are talking about exceptionally well paid professionals who spend so much time going over every single little facet of the game that they should surely have got the hang of things by now.

Munster would probably still be in the Heineken Cup if they hadn’t fallen foul of a succession of referees. The pattern hasn’t changed a whole lot since as the younger brigade suffered the same fate in Treviso on Sunday with two players in the bin at the same time.