Matthew Carley

Very tedious.

Although Matt Carley seems to have developed a sense of humour.

There's now a meme of him pointing at a player where he doesn't say anything and just gives him the look.

It's like, Matt, you all right? Anyway, so...

I said, it's 16-15 to Claremont, and that's also the player count as well.

That's a joke about Matthew Carley.

Enemy of the state, Matthew Carley.

Matthew Carley, a perverse refereeing display.

Completely expected, to be honest.

Pinging the scrum half for taking too long.

And I'd argue with Gordon about Fintan Gunn.

I thought Fintan Gunn did some really good things, but I thought, you know, he fell foul of Matthew Carley, the five second thing, the crooked feed, the block down kick, misplaced three or four passes.

And that's, I often feel sorry for scrum halves when you've got, it's like a queue at a late night bar outside them.

You're not quite sure who you're passing to.

He's got so many qualities and his passing in a general sense is very good.

So I think he learns a lot from that game.

I think he got slightly spooked by Matthew Carley because Matthew Carley took a dislike to him early in the game or disliked us, not to him personally, but to some of the things he did.

And I think that's a learning process for Fintan in that game that no matter what goes on and what happens, you've got to stay composed and accurate.

There we go.

He was asking Matthew Carley to clarify a law.

Well, that's how to get Matt Carley on side, isn't it? Yeah.

Because he loves clarifying laws.

Mm.

We saw it with, uh, whoever it was, um, uh, might've been Matthew Carley in the first test, not sending Ardie Savea to the bench and saying, "I'm happy with that tackle." We saw it in this as well, where he says- And he used the word dynamic.

Dynamic means watching it in real time.

When you watch it in real time-

It's, uh, 3:15 Irish time on Saturday.

Matthew Carley is the referee in that one on Premier Sports.

And then it's gonna be Connacht next up, 5:30 PM on Saturday against Saracens at the Dexcom stadium.

Pierre Brousset in charge of that one.

Uh, but-

I do have to, to share a quote here that was on, uh, one of the forums on, on Facebook about the fact that it was the normally pernickety Matthew Carley officiating in the tri-fest that was Saints versus Bath, is unsettling in the way that it's like watching a Swiss train arrive at the station 20 minutes late with the driver cheerily waving out of the cab.

[laughs] He actually seemed to enjoy it, didn't he, Matthew?

He did.