My main issue is why we did not appeal to the ref?
Im all for respecting the ref, but did Roby even walk over to hicks to ask him to check it?

You can draw attention to an error without being abusive.

Personally I think VAR is the better approach. Let the ref give the infield decision and let the video team check that there is no reasonable doubt.

It would only have taken 1 replay for the video team to say hang on, you need to double check that.