Referee Alain Rolland lectures Quins' team manager Grahame Bowerbank for playing the ball
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The weekend’s Heineken Cup games were beset by the inconsistencies of referees, according to Daily Telegraph columnist Brian Moore.
"We should not get to the stage of other sports and blame them for all the ills of the game, but you have to say that at times the standard is simply not good enough.
"Take the eccentric performance of Alain Rolland during Harlequins’ thrilling 31-24 win at Toulouse. Early on Rolland watched a Toulouse forward pick up a Quins forward, drive him up and over a maul and drop him so he fell on his shoulder and neck.
"We know Rolland has a strict policy on dangerous play because he sent off Wales captain Sam Warburton for dropping Frenchman Vincent Clerc in a tackle in the Rugby World Cup.
"The Quins’ player was caused to fall from a greater height than Clerc but this time there was no yellow card, no red, not even a warning."
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