Former Eire worldwide Stephen Ferris stated that he felt that rugby was “damaged” whereas watching Eire’s 24-13 defeat by South Africa due to the officiating.

Referee Matthew Carley confirmed Eire 5 yellow playing cards, in a recreation which lasted greater than two hours.

After James Ryan’s yellow card was upgraded to a 20-minute pink card, Sam Prendergast, Jack Crowley, Andrew Porter and Paddy McCarthy had been all despatched to the sin-bin for infringements because the hosts performed with 12 gamers for 10 minutes within the second half.

And Ferris, who gained 35 caps for Eire, says World Rugby want an pressing overview to sort out the rising stop-start nature of worldwide rugby video games.

“World Rugby must discover a solution to not make a recreation of rugby 132 minutes lengthy,” he instructed BBC Sport NI’s Stephen Watson.

“I’ve had lots of people message me to say they acquired bored through the recreation and particularly once you’re attempting to carry children, their consideration span might be quick at the most effective of occasions, we’ve got to make it quick and fast.

“In Dublin it felt like the sport was damaged, I did not have a clue what was happening and if I did not have a notion what was happening sitting on the sideline, then what did the opposite 52,000 folks within the Aviva assume. It was only a mess.

“A big half was all the way down to Eire in fact, due to their ill-discipline, the yellow playing cards and the a number of penalties at scrum-time, however I really feel if there was a Nigel Owens [former Welsh referee] accountable for that recreation it will have been dealt with so much in a different way, there would have been extra consistency and free-flowing rugby that we need to pay to go watch.”