Use of clocks and paint to be discussed

After last weekend's issues with stadium clocks and pitch dimensions, the International Rugby Board (IRB) will consider standardising all relevant regulations.

Defender of Murrayfield: Gordon Bulloch

This comes after South Africa coach Jake White blamed the stadium clock at the Millennium stadium for giving him an incorrect time that he claims affected his strategy against Wales.

White threw on some of his less experienced players believing that their was less than one minute remaining, when in truth their was still eight to go.

"It said 80 minutes on the clock and there were still eight minutes to go. I was a bit amazed by that," White told NEWS 24.

"The roof was open, the clock was wrong, but other than that it was fine," said White.

Meanwhile, Australian coach Eddie Jones had issues with the width of the Murrayfield pitch on which his side took on Scotland on Saturday.

Jones said he believed Scotland had deliberately narrowed the field at Murrayfield ahead of the Test to hamper the Wallabies' ambitions out wide.

But Scotland captain Gordon Bulloch later dismissed Jones's complaints.

"There is nothing in the laws to say what the size of a pitch is and nothing in the laws to say you have to train on the same size of pitch that you play on," said Bulloch.

"The pitch was fine on Saturday, there was green grass on it."

IRB officials have indicated that they will discuss these and other issues at next week's council meeting in Dublin.

The result could be that Tests are played on fields measuring at least 70 metres in width, with a universal game clock keeping the time in all internationals.

"There are tournament regulations for the World Cup and the Six Nations but perhaps we need to look at introducing new rules for autumn internationals," said the IRB's chief executive Mike Miller.