Is rugby’s TMO process fair?

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[upbeat music] Hello, you're very welcome along to the CounterRock Rugby podcast, brought to you by The Irish Times in partnership with Oak Energy. Women's Six Nations returns this weekend. Uh, Ireland have named their team. They've got back-to-back home games to finish off the competition against Wales up in Belfast this weekend, and then the big one, Scotland, at the Aviva Stadium on Sunday the 17th. Ireland have won one of their first three games. They lost to England and France, uh, either side of beating Italy, hammering them out in Galway. Uh, but they've just named their team for this Wales game. They would be favored to win the next two. Eve Higgins is back in at center. She replaces Nancy McGillivray. Otherwise, it's a very settled group. There's a debut for Niamh Gallagher on the bench, who plays over in England with Trailfinders. That kicks off against Wales half six on Saturday night. Elsewhere, uh, Munster and Connacht face off in a big interpro with top eight implications. Leinster at home to the Lions and Ulster at home to the Stormers. But we're not gonna preview those games per se today because for the first time in a while it feels like there's been an officiating controversy that's gripped the rugby world, and that was the infamous TMO/French TV director problem from Bath's defeat to Bordeaux on the weekend. Johan van Graan, the Bath head coach, came out afterwards and listed the timestamps of three head collisions, or what he saw as head collisions, in the game against his team, and