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What has Australian referee Angus Gardner got to say about his Bledisloe blunder?
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He could hardly do anything else, when the television audience have seen the blunder.
But Australian referee Angus Gardner has owned up to the mistake which cost the Wallabies dearly in the first Bledisloe Cup test in Wellington.
Gardner, who will control Sunday's second encounter at Eden Park, was the linesman who missed All Black centre Rieko Ioane nudging the touchline in the lead-up to Jordie Barrett's try.
"It was just a genuine miss - something it happens at that speed. Obviously I put my hand up for it," Gardner told Gold AM's Country Sport Breakfast.
Replays clearly showed Ioane was out but the try stood as the All Blacks and Wallabies played out a drawn match.
Gardner was downplaying any pressure.
"We're there to referee the game whether it's the All Blacks or the Wallabies or Wellington or Otago or Chiefs versus Crusaders... our job's just the game, it shouldn't matter who the two teams are," he said.
Kiwis Paul Williams – the referee in Wellington – and Ben O'Keeffe will be Gardner's assistants on Sunday.
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I doub that kind of win will erase the doubts somehow DW. The 6N will tell the tale now.
Go to commentsJohn, McKenzie was 10 years ago and he only lasted 15 months until the disgustingly unfair affair that brought him down. I thought that if he didn't get another gig over Eddie V2 then he was done. I read that he had been approached but declined to put his name in the ring.
There are no potential Wallaby coaches outside of McKellar unless you have some inside info?
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