Barnes autobiography
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@Catogrande said in Barnes autobiography:
I agree with all you say and there are times where a guy is out of his depth but came good ie Barnes 2007 and there are times where you think, when will this guy ever come good ie Carley whenever.
Barnes for me is one of the better refs of the last ten years or so. Not without his faults and occasionally making a real howler, but that is most refs. He’s not the best, but nor is he the single reason that NZ haven’t won 12 out of the last 10 world cups.
What's the deal with that last comment? Who has even insinuated that? Ultimately he fůcked up big time and cost us the 2007 QF and any chance at winning the thing (see I didn't suggest we were a sure thing). But I guess it's easy to just shrug shoulders when you weren't on the receiving end.
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Apologies. Posting while drunk and a bit pissed off is not a good mix.
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@Catogrande nonsense, drunk and pissed off is exactly how you should be posting on here
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@No-Quarter said in Barnes autobiography:
@Catogrande nonsense, drunk and pissed off is exactly how you should be posting on here
Thought it was a requirement...
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Wasn't having a pop at Barnes. Like you, I think Barnes became an excellent ref and I have no problems with the way he reffed the final.
My beef is with the way authorities change guidelines every few games making refereeing difficult, provide almost zero openness or feedback on refereeing quality and then express surprise and shock when confidence in refereeing falls away. It's becoming an open sore.
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What is depressing is that there were no real professional consequences for his shocking 2007 qf refereeing. Rugby is way behind soccer and cricket in the way they maintain basic officiating standards. Perhaps World Rugby should have referees perform under promotion-relegation conditions. If your average number of refereeing errors exceeds a certain mark in your last say 3 or 5 tests, you get relegated to officiating club level or whatever the level down is. Of course, make fewer errors and you could gain promotion back to level. Idk. Just an idea.
Also, get Graham Henry to
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@Catogrande said in Barnes autobiography:
Apologies. Posting while drunk and a bit pissed off is not a good mix.
No problem. I figured as much, which I only implied that you were being a dickhead rather than actually calling you one (which you normally aren't)
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Now Tom Foley has also been subjected to online death threats to himself and his family. World rugby saying they have recorded over 2,000 direct threats against match officials in recent weeks.
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@Catogrande said in Barnes autobiography:
Now Tom Foley has also been subjected to online death threats to himself and his family. World rugby saying they have recorded over 2,000 direct threats against match officials in recent weeks.
No excuses for that shit. Social media makes it far too easy, although I guess in the old days people got hate mail. No response from WR? Who'd want to be a ref...
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WR has to take some responsibility themselves. If they weren't so protective of the refs/TMOs and publicly acknowledged when mistakes/errors were made, the fan reaction wouldn't be anywhere as bad. Instead they bury their heads in the sand and hope it all goes away.
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It's pretty easy to see why this happens with refs or coaches etc the death threats etc. Read any rugby forum (and I assume all sports are same) and see how much anti shit about people is spewed. It's a pretty short step to online threats from the (let's face it) unbalanced to take.
It is one of reasons I dislike all the over top stuff on anyone, even the stuff on Foster etc gets over the top at times, and I know there was internet crap aimed to him and family at some stages.
I will add I enjoy this forum so much because in general there are not the seemingly nutters on here you see on places like Planet Rugby which at times is frankly almost dangerous in my opinion. -
@Bovidae said in Barnes autobiography:
publicly acknowledged when mistakes/errors were made
this is also because so much is interpretation - so one ref's 'play on' is another's 'yellow/red card'. It absoultely sucks.
Have been watching a lot of NFL and really enjoying it. Reflecting on why that is, I think it's because you always have 11 on 11, and the teams can't play for penalties/refs - they have to figure out ways to win the game themselves, through skill or power or tactics. They can increase their chances of a penalty (biffing the ball downfield in the general vicinity of a receiver seems to draw flags these days), but you won't win a game with penalties. Commentators also call out bad play and aren't afraid to critique players and coaches.
That, and it's apex sport finanically. On average, one game generates about half the overall NZR annual budget - and there are 16 games/week. The money is incredible.
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@nzzp said in Barnes autobiography:
@Bovidae said in Barnes autobiography:
publicly acknowledged when mistakes/errors were made
this is also because so much is interpretation - so one ref's 'play on' is another's 'yellow/red card'. It absoultely sucks.
Raynal was 100% right in what should happen. The officials should be able to explain the decisions they made, even if fans/coaches/players don't agree with them. The lack of transparency and clarity leads to the frustration and the online abuse.
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@Bovidae said in Barnes autobiography:
@nzzp said in Barnes autobiography:
@Bovidae said in Barnes autobiography:
publicly acknowledged when mistakes/errors were made
this is also because so much is interpretation - so one ref's 'play on' is another's 'yellow/red card'. It absoultely sucks.
Raynal was 100% right in what should happen. The officials should be able to explain the decisions they made, even if fans/coaches/players don't agree with them. The lack of transparency and clarity leads to the frustration and the online abuse.
Absolutely. LIke in cricket, there's a big differnece between a bad decision and a wrong decision. Rugby's implementation of technology has been the worst of any major sport - even the soccer VAR/goal line is better now. We pick some random moments, slow them down, and then take players off as a result. It's broken.
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@Bovidae said in Barnes autobiography:
WR has to take some responsibility themselves. If they weren't so protective of the refs/TMOs and publicly acknowledged when mistakes/errors were made, the fan reaction wouldn't be anywhere as bad. Instead they bury their heads in the sand and hope it all goes away.
Yes and no. What we are talking bout here is behavioural changes of the general population, not anything simple. Given the game is subjective, there will always be people that see Cane's card, Etzbeth getting away with a leading forearm and call foul / bias. You could also look SA getting the penalty to win their SF, see the similarities to the last scrum in the final and ask where was the NZ penalty? Thats just two examples where idiots can (controversially, legitimately) say officiating handed the world cup to South Africa.
I'm certainly one for thinking rules shouldn't be set for the lowest common denominator (Which they are), but you also can't keep your head in the sand when your changes are blatantly not working. We saw 3 yellow cards and a red in the world cup final for fucks sakes. How can it possibly be explained that the changes are having an effect, when 4 people got sent from the field in the biggest game of their lives for indiscretions? The only thing you can do is actually change the rules and/or the way it's refereed to try and reduce controversy.
The idea that we continue down this path & hope it all works out in the future is absurd. IT doesn't matter how many people condemn the people with death threats, they will still exist. They always have and they always will. That is the human population.
If you want to take death threats to officials away, you need to reduce the controversy.
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@MajorRage said in Barnes autobiography:
The only thing you can do is actually change the rules and/or the way it's refereed to try and reduce controversy.
100% this.
The refs and TMOs are simply the messengers being shot.
The issue lies in the laws and framework they are asked to apply.
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also agree, rules need to boiled down to black and white as much as possible and i think stop trying to use the refs to make the game more attacking and enjoyable through new rules, let opposition teams work out how to break down an attack for defensive line
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@MajorRage fantastic post and could not agree more
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@MajorRage said in Barnes autobiography:
I'm certainly one for thinking rules shouldn't be set for the lowest common denominator (Which they are), but you also can't keep your head in the sand when your changes are blatantly not working. We saw 3 yellow cards and a red in the world cup final for fucks sakes. How can it possibly be explained that the changes are having an effect, when 4 people got sent from the field in the biggest game of their lives for indiscretions? The only thing you can do is actually change the rules and/or the way it's refereed to try and reduce controversy.
WR do themselves no favours by not acknowledging their preferred course of action is clearly not having the desired effect and worse, is ruining the game.
That being said, it would help if the TMO wasn't a
