Mixed report card for Television Match Official trial

"I am fairly positive about where we are," Ed Morrison, the RFU's head of elite referee development, told The Times. "I think we're doing pretty well overall. We have made some mistakes in the first six weeks, when we have gone to a referral when we didn't need to and times when we should have gone to a referral and didn't. But tries which have been disallowed thus far would probably have been given in the past."

Morrison admitted that human error could not be entirely eliminated and that there was room for improvement in terms of relaying the decision. "We do have to communicate better, the referee to the TMO, the TMO to the [TV] director, the director back to the TMO. The key to success is how quickly we come to the decision. We are looking to get information back to the referee as soon as possible, without compromising the outcome of that decision."