His Ireland Students side went down 27-21 in their final game of the championship and Field was furious with the performance of the referee. The Irish trailed 24-18 at half time with tries from number eight Des Dillon and right wing Sheldon Coulter, and a conversion and two penalties from Mark McHugh.,br>In the second half both sides managed just a penalty apiece.

Ireland Students. D O'Sullivan (UCD); S Coulter (Belfast Harlequins/UUJ), K Lewis (St Marys/DU), D Quinlan (Blackrock/Cambridge), S Keogh (Old Blevedere/UCD); M McHugh (St Marys/UCD), E Reddan (Young Munster/UL); R McCormack (Buccaneers/Athlone IT), G Flannery (Galwegians/UCC), P Bracken (Galwegians/Athlone IT), D O'Callaghan (Cork Con/UCC), T Hayes (Shannon/Limerick IT); A McCullen capt (Lansdowne/DU), R Woods (Blackrock/DU), D Dillon (UCD). Replacements. J Fogarty (Cork Con/UCC) for Flannery. A O'Brien (UCD/Cambridge) for McCormack. T Hogan (Blackrock/DU) for Hayes. A Hughes(Dungannon/Queens) for Woods. I Humphreys (Dungannon/UUJ), S Mallen (Dungannon), T Robinson (Buccaneers/Shannon HC&M)