Why are Kiwis not complaining about Wayne Barnes ?
sharkbok - blames every All Black win in the northern hemisphere on the referee, which is odd cos he also equates almost beating the All Blacks as being the same as beating the All Blacks (facepalm and 4 asprins).
Can any proof of me saying this be provided? No, because Sasuke just pulled this from his fantasy stats a-rse, where he get the rest of his rugby knowledge.
The only thing I said about the last end of the year tour is that the All Blacks could have lost all 3 games and for at least 60 minutes it was looking like they would. No mention of the referee, only a small pack of fetchers that were getting bullied around the park.
As for the comments of Beeno and Moz. I don't recall Moz making these claims, so perhaps more BS from fantasy Sasuke. For Beeno, I am sure that if you went onto a rugby board of New Zealand fans you would find at least one person that was the same. (The truth is reveled at the end of this post).
The bottom line when an All Black team gets knocked out of a major tournament, the fans are ten times worse than any other country. The coaching team is a hundred times worse to appease their rugby fans. The only reason Graeme Henry was able to keep his job after the 2007 World Cup was to use the match fixing claim which NewZealand hung on every word.
The 2 most unsporting acts over the last 30 years by a coaching team have been the All Blacks.
1. Writing books about the IRB being cheats. Note, it is not just they are blaming the referee of being incompetent, they are accusing the IRB of match fixing. These accusations were not limited to the book, but were used during the post mortem of 2007 which was a major factor in Henry keeping his job. 2. Accuse the host country of poisoning their team. This is really low. The whole team and the coaching staff were at it.
Wait for the next installment at the 2015 World Cup....A preliminary was the game where the All Blacks drew with Australia. Plenty of comments about the performance of the referee, but this was "not" whinging- just like the critics of Wayne Barnes was not whinging. Wardrad has summed this up perfectly with this thread...... It seems the All Blacks now have a license to winge and call it not winging......
Sasuke recently tried to say that the Boks isolation record of winning more matches was because of the home referees. Oh wait, we have just found the New Zealand equivalent of Beeno....... 2 peas in a pod. I cant wait until I see the response from Sasuke, aka the New Zealand Beeno after the 2015 World Cup.
Sir Graham Henry could face legal action following an admission that he wondered whether match-fixing was to blame for New Zealand’s shock World Cup quarter-final exit to France in 2007.
Rugby Football Union officials are understood to be outraged by passages in Henry’s new book, Final World, which appear to question the impartiality of English referee Wayne Barnes and his assistants during the All Blacks’ 20-18 defeat at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff.
Chief executive Ian Ritchie has ordered the Union’s legal team to investigate and is likely to demand answers from Henry, who, as well as being knighted for services to rugby in May, was recently appointed to the International Rugby Board’s powerful Rugby Committee.
Some high-ranking RFU officials believe Henry should immediately be stripped of that position and it is understood the IRB are also looking closely at whether New Zealand’s World Cup-winning head coach should face a charge of bringing the game into disrepute.
Henry’s comments stem from the belief his side were given a raw deal by Barnes, who missed a forward pass for France’s second try, binned Luke McAlister and failed to award the All Blacks what might have been a winning penalty despite incessant late pressure.
Barnes was later subjected to a hate campaign in New Zealand, with some irate supporters going as far as issuing death threats against the widely respected whistler.
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As well as the comments in his book, which are now being scrutinised by the RFU, Henry went further on TVNZ last Sunday, saying: “The All Blacks didn’t get a penalty for the last 60 minutes of the game…and were on attack for 70 per cent of that time. Now that’s impossible – but it wasn’t impossible on that particular day.
“I asked the Rugby Union and the international board if there was any law or any system they used to look at bizarre games and look at the possibility of sports betting.”
Asked if the officials were cheating or were incompetent, Henry added: “I guess that’s why you have a system of analysing those things. If you had a system of analysing, maybe you would come to a result and I could answer that question.”
The refereeing community has been stunned by Henry’s remarks and one leading Premiership official, who asked to remain anonymous, has called upon the RFU to protect their integrity by demanding the Kiwi be called quickly to account.
He told The Rugby Paper: “It defies belief that anyone could think this about Wayne Barnes. You could not wish to see a more honest bloke and he’s a barrister, so why would he even consider jeopardising his future career? It wouldn’t be on his radar.
“What Graham Henry said is an absolute disgrace and it’s libellous. He’s got to look at himself, his selections and how his own team played, rather than questioning the integrity of a referee. If I was Wayne, I would certainly be consulting my lawyers.
“If these comments were made by a football manager the FA would be all over it, so you’d hope for the same. I would expect the RFU to demand answers and you can’t just fob it off as something that happened five years ago, because he said it on TV last week.
“At the very least Henry should be asked to apologise, and how he could still hold a position on the IRB Rugby Committee after this would be beyond belief.”
The RFU refused to comment when approached by The Rugby Paper, but the IRB did issue a statement offering their support for Barnes, who is due to officiate in matches involving Australia, South Africa and Argentina in the forthcoming Rugby Championship.
It read: “We are not really commenting at this stage on Graham’s remarks except to say that we back Wayne Barnes as a referee.
“He is one of the best and most experienced match officials in the world and a valuable member of the elite international panel.
“That match to which you are referring was five years ago and any refereeing issues arising from it were dealt with five years ago.” (Still going on about it)
NEALE HARVEY
- See more at: http://www.therugbypaper.co.uk/featured-post/2116/rfu-fury-over-graham-henry-kiwis-2007-world-cup-defeat-referee-slur/#sthash.M3kUXy2j.dpufOthers like Sasuke/ aka the "New Zealand Beeno" would have beat the conspiracy drums until he was blue in the face......
Just like how "Kiwi Beeno" says that the Boks won more games pre- 1992 due to ref assisted wins..... 2 peas in a pod
Simple as that.
Am I a Siren ? Luring men to their deaths, perchance ?
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