Wayne Barnes gooone!
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Hats off to a top rugby man. Thought he showed real guts to weather the fallout from 07 QF as a young ref and then use it to dramatically improve the weaknesses in his reffing. Much like the other GOATs who went through that also had find a way through the postQF gauntlet.
Fair fucks to him. he went away let the pain drive him forward and waited 14 years to deliver his revenge in the coldest way possible: giving every marginal call possible against the ABs.
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@Smuts I wish Jordie Barrett had nailed the 74th minute penalty, if only to see the reaction/meltdown of the Bok supporter base. Would have been epic, especially if the stories are true of what he endured after Marseille 2022
Would have made Pieter van Zyl look like a reasonable person I think 
Barnes must have obviously felt that the fallout of denying the Boks was worse than doing the ABs over again
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@Smuts said in Wayne Barnes gooone!:
Fair fucks to him. he went away let the pain drive him forward and waited 14 years to deliver his revenge in the coldest way possible: giving every marginal call possible against the ABs.
He was even smarter than that - he managed to get most of the vitriol for destroying a rugby match, again, deflected onto the TMO.
I note that many of his defenders are English. It is easier for them to rate him....they never played in his "matches".
Sadly, as I, and several others have said, he was far from the worst and all of the refs are hamstrung by an unworkable set of rules and protocols laid out by an incompetent bunch of morons. (Yes, I am bitter that I would now rather mow lawns on a Saturday than watch rugby - union).
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He was the start of a generation of refs who wanted be the centre of attention. Good riddance!
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@sparky said in Wayne Barnes gooone!:
He was the start of a generation of refs who wanted be the centre of attention. Good riddance!
Steve Walsh says hi. Oh wait a moment, he says get fucked that was me.
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@Catogrande said in Wayne Barnes gooone!:
@sparky said in Wayne Barnes gooone!:
He was the start of a generation of refs who wanted be the centre of attention. Good riddance!
Steve Walsh says hi. Oh wait a moment, he says get fucked that was me.
yes but he also had better hair.
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@canefan said in Wayne Barnes gooone!:
@NTA said in Wayne Barnes gooone!:
Scary shit. Gotta question whether he's made the right decision, but no harm done I guess...
My bro in law had the same thing. Pretty nerve wracking, but the procedure he had generally sorts the problem out
Weird anecdote related to circulatory things: a looooong time ago, my son was in the special care neonatal ward with another kid born about 6 weeks prem.
At one point this kid's heart started racing crazy fast, and they got the Doc on the phone, who told the nurse: "put your thumbs over his eyeballs and press down gently".
Almost instantly settled it back down to normal.
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@MiketheSnow said in Wayne Barnes gooone!:
@mikedogz said in Wayne Barnes gooone!:
Selfish, egotistical cun*
Exactly my reaction
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@MiketheSnow said in Wayne Barnes gooone!:
@mikedogz said in Wayne Barnes gooone!:
Selfish, egotistical cun*
Nice that he would allow a serious medical event to potentially affect his performance and by extension the result of the games he was reffing
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"I limited my running as much as possible for the rest of the first half, which both teams made easier for me by giving loads of penalties away, but I knew I had to tell my fellow referees during the break."
Um, don't think he should have been there.
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@nostrildamus said in Wayne Barnes gooone!:
"I limited my running as much as possible for the rest of the first half, which both teams made easier for me by giving loads of penalties away, but I knew I had to tell my fellow referees during the break."
Um, don't think he should have been there.
That quote is spoken by a guy who thinks rugby games exist purely for the benefit of the ref
