Nick Mallett is pulling no punches on the TMO creep that's draining rhythm from the game. Appearing on Talking Boks, he used the Junior World Championship final as his case study — South Africa beat France 16-5 but had three second-half tries disallowed following review, with officials going back multiple phases to find infractions. Mallett's argument isn't that TMOs should be scrapped, but that the threshold has shifted: referees are no longer using the technology for 'clear and obvious' interventions but actively hunting reasons to overturn decisions already made on the field. The Yaqeen Ahmed try — disallowed despite what Mallett considered a dangerous low tackle by the French defender — is his sharpest example of officials losing the plot on proportionality. He also weighs in on Quesada's ban for referee criticism, which prompted him to reveal his own infamous door-battering incident during his Italy tenure. The broader point is that rugby's greatest structural asset — continuous play — is being quietly dismantled by a review culture nobody seems willing to rein in.