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Perhaps the cops should have taken the complainant with them to confirm the description of the "perp"

Yes difficult for Barnes to be checking in front & behind but you would expect the ARs to be checking & making a call to him. Although as the pic shows Barnes is in the chariot position which generally gives a ref the best view of both the ruck and the defensive line.

Who actually pays test Refs? - Their home unions or the IRB ? Or is it a retainer from their home union with expenses & match fees by the IRB for International duty? Anyone know

Can we all refrain from re-litigating that episode - it is history, gone, done, dusted, chewed up, spat out, rewritten, cried over, jumped on, kicked about, mulled over, analysed, over analysed, forgotten, remembered, forgotten, remembered again.

Yeah he was "probably" offside - but the writer implies that it must have been obvious to everyone except Barnes with his use of "Metres" No it is rubbish because the writer offers an unsubstantiated claim that Barnes refuses to make "Bold" calls - and refuses to enforece the laws of the...

Yes a few lines: "It didn't matter that Argentina's Felipe Contepomi was metres offside" - at most he was 1 metre of-side "And we will have anarchy in the final quarter. Barnes will wave anything through and the showpiece event could be reduced to farce." Anarchy ? , Wave ANYTHING...

Just another rubbish article from a rubbish journo working for a rubbish paper. Getting a bit sick of them. Firstly we had Peter Bills dishing up crap about France "B" , then Mark Reason chimed in with more nonsense. As crazy as it may sound I'd rather read Stephen Jones than this current mob

Not good at all - Local cops over-reacting and not thinking of the potential fall out of their actions. According to some reports here there was a phone complaint from a patron in the bar directly to the police who claimed a "black" person was dealing pills in the bar's toilets. Seems like...

Antipodean - I think you'll find that some refs recognise this and that at the very first sign of a halt in progress - immediately call "use it" - as I mentioned above Nigel Owen is one. As for the player travelling backwards through the maul little distinction appears to be made whether the...

Sorry Jnor - but quite frankly you are just making stuff up. All the refs have fitness tests and standards they have to reach. BL is as quick as he needs to be. How can you claim as a "Fact" that he get flustered ??, that is just your opinon. Sure he blew several mauls quite quickly but only...

I'd have to add Paul O'Connor and the entire Irish front row to that list

They did clean up the rules many many years ago, and fixed up the problems with rucks,mauls, lineouts and scums. That game is called Rugby League. Somehow however they still conspire to have rubbish referees. In Rugby Union we are stuck what we've got I'm afraid.

Enough already - OK POB's to blame for everything. He stole that bitches baby as well.

To be Honest Lee - I'm not so sure I'd admit to reading anything on planet rugby - Went to the forums there today and found this gem by a poster called "Logical thinker" - He doesn't think the RWC atmosphere is that good and suggests it might improve if the matches could be at 12pm UK time, not...

Nope from the IRB press release back in June I think "....Why do I suggest this? .... Steve Hilditch isn't Irish.... " I never said Steve Hilditch was Irish ?? edit - actually it was in April...

Love the way Rocky & Richie clean each other out @ 14secs - Bears wrestling stuff that. I also like the way Rocky has learnt from RMC and joins the ruck illegally from the side.

At the end of the day I guess it's no different than the selectors picking National teams - someone always misses out who shouldn't have, someone always gets in who shouldn't have. Conspiracy theories abound.

DC - is a conditional selection, he still has to come thru trainings OK before definately playing.

Because he is the Referees manager and no doubt would have seen it as his responsibility. Regardless of what you may think of POB he does NOT shirk responsibility. Another point to be considered is that 3 SA refs could present a potential problem (eg perceived neutrality) down the track the...

Most people seem to forget Nonu has played wing @ Super rugby level as well, so another option could be SBW to 2nd & Nonu to wing.