Sean Lineen, the Glasgow Warriors head coach, has called for greater neutrality among match officials despite watching his side defy the odds on Saturday by winning a third successive away game in a five-match winning run to end their Magners League campaign.

After a weekend in which Craig Levein, the Dundee United manager, railed at a couple of refereeing decisions which assisted Rangers in the meeting between the sides at Ibrox, Lineen was speaking from the stronger standpoint his men had given him, in that they overcame what he perceived to be unfair decisions to earn another win.

He had been incensed by the performance of the Irish touch judges during Saturday's meeting with Munster at Cork's Musgrave Park, where his team squeezed home 21-18.

Against a team honing its preparations for the Heineken Cup final and which wanted to mark former captain Anthony Foley's last home match with a win, Lineen's men put in a magnificent performance.

He believes, though, they would have won much more easily but for those officials and matters came to a head when Foley scored a try after using one of the touch judges, who had strayed on to the field of play, as a blocker.

"When Foley went behind the touch judge, it was almost like a planned move," Lineen said with a humourless laugh. "We need to have neutral touch judges as well as referees because something very similar happened in our last match of last season, which was also in Munster. Then the man was clearly out of play prior to scoring and the referee asked the touch judge who said Yes, try'. He was smiling as he said so - I can still see that clearly.

"In some ways, it is only human nature in rugby strong-holds because these people have to live there, but it is not good for our competition.

"Other coaches are talking about it as well. We feel that Irish and Welsh touch judges give us nothing. Dan Parks can put a raking 50-metre clearance in and they will mark it 30 metres downfield.

"We feel that Scottish touch-judges tend to go the other way to be seen to be fair, but what has to happen is that we get neutrality, so that it is seen to be fair."

Lineen drew enormous consolation from the fact that, as Edinburgh became the first Scottish team to finish in the top three in the Magners League - they too finished with back-to-back away wins - his side also helped the cause of Scottish teams by achieving a best league finish.

"I have said for some time that we had to earn respect from Irish and, in particular, Welsh teams, so Edinburgh's fantastic record of going through the campaign without losing in Wales is particularly impressive," he said.

"I spoke to Andy Robinson Edinburgh's head coach after the games on Saturday and he was delighted, too, because we know we have to fight above our weight, but we know we can. We don't want any sympathy because of that, we just want a fair chance."