Toulouse fly-half Jean-Baptiste Elissalde has hit out at the manner in which Munster claimed victory in the Heineken Cup Final on Saturday.
Such was the Frenchman's frustration that late in the game, after another long period of Munster playing keep-ball, he lost his cool and was seen arguing vehemently with referee Nigel Owens.
Whilst Elissalde was gentlemanly enough to accept the defeat he was far from happy in the manner which Munster won.
Munster deserved what they got because we weren't very good but you can't play rugby like that," he told The Guardian.
"There were 15 minutes at the end of the game where we couldn't get our hands on the ball without infringing.
"It's getting like basketball where the only option is to make a technical error and take the points. That's not rugby, it's nothing."
That said Elissalde was quick to admit had his side built a lead during their early dominance they would never have been in such a position.
"If we had got a lead, then the last five minutes wouldn't have been pick-and-go, they couldn't have done it for ever," he added.
"Le pick-and-go is meaningless, it's not rugby.
"I have nothing against the referee at all but he wasn't able to referee it. Either he had to let everything go, in which case it would have been total chaos, or he would have had to stop the game at every ruck.
"You had one guy diving alone on to the ground, another on top. At the end, I told him there were only blues [Munster] on the ground, no reds [Toulouse], no tackler and tackled, so I was not breaking the rules. But my English isn't super."