Referee George Clancy under fire as Pat Lam questions Leinster try decision

Pat Lam wasn’t smashing any china, but his displeasure still betrayed the smile.

At 3-0 down, 20 minutes to play and the wind and rain buffeting their backs, his Connacht side was still very much in the hunt for a first victory at the RDS so the nature of George Clancy’s input on the hour was most unwelcome.

“Is there any reason I cannot award the try?” asked the referee who fell on his rear end at the very moment Leinster’s Josh van der Flier sought to touch down over the Connacht line. It was a query that left his TMO Marshall Kilgore with no wiggle room.