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'Very misleading': Wayne Barnes responds to All Blacks' 'complaints' over RWC final refereeing
By Josh Raisey
After refereeing South Africa’s World Cup final win over the All Blacks last month, Wayne Barnes has responded to the reports that New Zealand have sent a complaint to World Rugby over the officiating, saying “you’re never quite sure what that means”.
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The match was crammed full of significant moments, including the first ever World Cup final red card shown to All Blacks captain Sam Cane, as well as three other yellow cards being brandished. Just days after the 12-11 loss at the Stade de France, the losing head coach Ian Foster said that they had “already sent a file into World Rugby to get them to make a few comments on… Hopefully they do.”
Joining The Evening Standard Rugby Podcast with Lawrence Dallaglio this week after recently announcing his retirement from refereeing, the 44-year-old said that the All Blacks’ actions are nothing new and that they send feedback of that nature after every game.
Barnes was in charge of three All Blacks matches during the World Cup, and said that their “diligent” coaching staff asked World Rugby for clarification for the first two matches against Uruguay and Ireland, so something similar would be expected after the final. But he stressed that he has not seen that feedback and that reports that there have been complaints can be “very misleading”.
“So I refereed New Zealand three times during the tournament,” Barnes said.
“Refereed them against Uruguay, refereed them against Ireland and refereed them in the final but they sent feedback after every game. So they would say, ‘can you clarify these points?’ So writing to complain to World Rugby, as I’ve seen some of the headlines this week, can be very misleading.”
“I’m sure because Ian Foster is very diligent and with Joe [Schmidt] next to him, and they always go into detail after a match. And so after those other two matches, there’s a lot of detail, asking questions of you know, of clarification. So it wouldn’t surprise me if they’ve sent those into World Rugby. I haven’t seen those yet.”
Wayne barnes should join the Queen
Are you suggesting Wayne Barnes should die? You are such an impressive human being. Mum must be proud of you. You Irish?
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that’s how many times I have bounced around in you head. What a dickhead. Go and suck George Michael’s thumb
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well I do know that you had your eye on George Michael and that like attracts like. You are so dumb that you don’t even realise that I am bouncing around in your head with this comment. I am like one of the old man muppets in the balcony looking down on fools like you, it is so funny🤣😂😂
Hes dead you imbecilic muppet
as I said George Michael is waiting for you. Go to him before you miss out on the best time of your life
Go and learn the English language properly. You can barely put together the correct words in a sentence. Get off that dildo and into the library.
randy andy go and join George Michael. You have not established any issue apart from nothing. You can’t handle things being thrown back at you so, as I said go and join George Michael
Dude. Im not sore about the ABs losing, if you read all my messages you would understand that. All I was saying is that you shihkdn’t call us all sore
Now do yourself and everyone else a favour and go F yourself. I’ve established the issue here, it’s that you are a sore winner.
Now kindly, do one. Good job SA on winning the cup. Leave it be.
andy pandy please get all of us away from your saltiness. Maybe then you will get areal view of realinity. The cup is in South Africa, Bokke Land, The team that always beats you in Cup finals. What is you % wins in world cups??? I know that the Bokke is 4 from 8. Far bigger % than yours, I am not embarrassed, we are not embarrassed, only you should be. Please let me get out of your head now
I bet you know all the men that would want that you little pansie. 🤣
I would like to see consistent refereeing.Also time restraints on penalty advantage.And allow the coaches to call a certain amount of var incidents.
I feel the whole world cup was spoiled by the refs as they seemed to all play different rules.
Also the amount of offsides committed when kicking was ridiculous.
The world cup was spoiled by the draw. The refereeing was consistent except for the Wales-Fiji game where Fiji were robbed.
Just out of interest is Rubgypass a South African site?
Jamaican.
I think they are Irish, based in Dublin
At least other countries don’t go absolutely hysterical and deranged like Rassie (The Bok coach) does after a Bok loss… it’s embarrassing… and Bok supporters love to stick it up the AB fans as poor losers when they win… but if they lose they are the biggest whingers and moaners in the world… they dissect the game and do a Rassie everytime… and if they win are the biggest gloaters….OMG it has to be seen to be believed. Too funny. I lived in Capetown during a AB tour and witnessed it first hand…. But the biggest poor loser incident was when a Bok fan ran on to the field and physically attacked the referee during an AB/Bok match… the ultimate poor loser tactic.
Rassie never went “hysterical” he made a video about baf calls made during a particular game. And it worked. A lot less dodgy calls. The ABs have always had the “rub of the green” when it came to referee decisions. The 2011 WC final for example, had refereeing favourings the ABs, in a game, that France prpbably should have won. Missed chances, yes. But also missed penalties by the ref. I think the tactic was to remain offside for as long as possible, so it looked like a legal play. My point is that there hasn’t been much for AB fans to complain about, as most biases went their way. On the odd occasion it doesn’t, they whine like the rest of them.
Even your little rant about Saffers, is, well whinging
A lot of what you say actually fits the AB outlook. Sam's loss didn't cost ‘em the game. AB's simply missed the posts. Twice. That's the truth. Nothing to do with the ref. He was correct in his judgements.
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Not really. The truth is all teams have supporters that behave poorly after a loss. Look what our supporters did to Barnes after the France loss and look what yours did after the final. Look what Cane did to that poor boy running onto the field. We can point fingers but no one comes out of this covered in glory. Was Rassie correct? Yes he was. Was the way he did it correct? No it was not. I and the rest of the Springbok supporters are proud of our team for bringing home a fourth world cup trophy after everything they had to endure during the last eight years.