PETER JACKSON

EVER since the Five became Six, no captain had found himself in an emergency as grim as the one that confronted Michele Lamaro in Dublin last Sunday.Already seven points down against one of the best teams in the world trying to understand the double whammy of Hame Faiva’s red card. Georgian referee Nika Amashukeli having sent the substitute hooker off, Lamaro would have to send another player off as punishment for going to uncontested scrums.It prompted Ireland’s captain, Peter O’Mahony, to ask the ref: ‘Why?’“You tell m...