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27th February 2022
06:05pm GMT

Referee Nika Amashukeli shows a red card to Epalahame Faiva of Italy during the Guinness Six Nations Rugby Championship match against Ireland. (Photo by Harry Murphy/Sportsfile)[/caption]
"We've got to be the only team sport in the world that constantly shoots ourselves in the foot. If that's the first game of rugby you're watching, you are not going to watch a second. "Many of our laws are not fit for purpose. The players out there and the officials on the field are not to blame. They are simply implementing the law. And it's not just that law, where Italy are so unlucky to be put down to 13 men. There are so many other laws, but we can't get into them now." "Everyone wants to kick them out of the competition," Williams added, about Italy. "Man, when you are down you get kicked, don't you? They got kicked hard, and they didn't quit... "The loser today was not Italy, or Ireland. The game of rugby lost, on the international stage... I would think [that it's an easy fix], but what I'm astounded by is the muppets have left it in there!""Why hasn't that been fixed?" Williams asked. "That's their job." https://twitter.com/VMSportIE/status/1497985199795318792 Both Rob Kearney and Shane Horgan were both on the panel with Matt Williams and agreed rugby 'was not helping itself' with these laws that have too adverse an affect on a game. Kearney remarked that the existing law 'may change at 9am, on Monday morning'. It will certainly be interesting to see what the fall-out from this game is, as it did impact on what was shaping up as a nice contest.
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