Italian captain Michele Lamaro wouldn’t have been the only one perplexed by the events at the Aviva Stadium on Sunday.
Plenty of people watching on television would have been similarly baffled by the Azzurri having to go down to 13 men when the red card issued to hooker Hame Faiva resulted in the game against Ireland moving to uncontested scrums.
But, however farcical it may have seemed, that’s the law.
