No matter how many toys they receive, TMOs can’t guarantee ‘clear-and-obvious’ verdicts

When all is said and dusted about them from the cheap seats, the television match officials (TMOs), love them or berate them, have shifted the axis of officiating in rugby union.

The paranoia is undeniable that TMOs can tip ecstasy on its head to inflict agony on everyone involved in a game, especially at the higher echelons of footy, where, arguably, the cut seems to be felt the deepest. Even whistleblowers, as a collective, have undergone pangs of insecurity in the belief that they are losi...