Wayne Barnes at his glorious BEST! | Referee Grand Master 

100% mate! No one should ever be subject to the type of abuse he received! He’s human! The system failed him not he failed the system!

Any country that produced Grant Nesbitt, Murray Mexted and Ian Smith must know a thing or two about bias…

I think he's a bit egotistical sometimes but he's still a great ref

@@SomeBritishGal1 He's not as funny as he'd like to think he is, but, sure, top ref. Let down by a touch judge once, as I seem to remember.

@@ulaca1 The only big decision of his I disagree with is sending off Dylan Hartley at Twickenham. It's a Premiership final, emotions and tensions are high and sometimes we say things we don't mean to and Barnes acted as if Hartley ran up to him and shouted in his face. It's a sin bin, but not a straight red.

Who would you have as number one out of interest?

@@AndrewDavidForde Nigel Owens of course! LMFAO!

Not if you are an ALL Black Fan- Refereed All Blacks to more Test losses than every other international Referee of his time combined, over 40% of Tests lost by NZ with Barnes as Ref- far higher than any other Referee! .

@@kelbatt7729 Because he saw the All Blacks cheating and dealt with it without being swayed.

i think that has to go to nigel but hes outstanding either way

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His win/loss ratio when he reffed NZ was an anomaly. NZ lost 40% more matches when he reffed them.

@@kelbatt7729 Exactly....other weaker refs caved into NZ's administration, players, culture, similar to how English refs would cave into Man Utd during the Fergie days. Barnes was made of sterner stuff and penalized them for all the cheating they'd get away with from the weaker refs....so not an anomaly just NZ finally got reffed properly .

@@andrewp1075 100% right

​@@kelbatt7729 Bro they destroyed you!!!😭😭😭

Barnes was fair there. Pearce has dealt well with Billy too by marching him 20 metres. Billy needs to stop with the attitude and focus on his play

@@jonnybaynham1689 his world cup performance... Jesus wept

Yes he hid, he and his team were appalling. It's funny because the AB fans knew what would happen when he was appointed. He's public enemy no.1 over there and has been for many years. Social media death-threats are weird, but he deserves criticism.

​@@MorAodhanweird? More like completely unacceptable

I actually really liked him. But his performance the entire WC wasnt really good at all. He wanted to have a more fluid game and let a lot of stuff go. But that actually slowed the game down with as Boks and Ireland targeting to slow down every single Ruck by all means necessary. And theyd get a way with it... it slowed the game and ruck speed down so much. Because they figured Barnes out... He didnt need to whistle straight away but atleast warn them not to do that stuff again. Also he gifted SA 3 points while the penalty shouldve been the other way around. but no, he shouldnt get death threats!!! It wouldve been nice for him to whistle the final in 2019 he was one of the best refs at that time, but obviously he wasnt allowed to. But getting it in 2023 was a poor decision after a poor tournament. And yes the red card was the ABs own fault. But they still were the better team, and with a different ref, they wouldve probably won it (though it depends on who wouldve replaced him, he wasnt a bad ref, there were so many worse. he was just not good this WC)

Criticism for what? I’m genuinely confused by the reaction of Kiwis. They’ve had the ref in their pocket for years and because THEY threw their own game, they turn around and blame the ref?

@@G-regTaylorCriticism for admitting to Ardie Savea he shouldn’t have penalised him while Hannibal was lining up what was ultimately the winning kick. Not following rugby laws, the law book clearly states TMO can only go back 2 phases prior to a try being scored but scrubbed out Smith’s try when the TMO went back 5 phases. No penalty for de Klerk not feeding the scrum at the end and I could go on. The current laws are bad enough without the ref making it up as he goes along

He's retired now, so no more "becoming".

he didn't say that from what I heard. He got sent off for shouting at Barnes 'I got the f**ing ball' i.e. he turned the ball over and is yelling at Barnes

Im going to dispute both your points. best ever is not Barnes, its Nigel Owens. if the final you refer to was the RWC final then your delusional. The Greatest reffing performances are where you barely notice them, not where they become such a major and visible factor

@@oliverjenner9251Your opinion brother

@@Vanskii your welcome to offer your own opinion or dispute mine. i gave my opinion and my reasons behind it and why i disagree with the original comment

​@@oliverjenner9251I agree with your take that Owens was the best. However your position that a ref should not be noticed, invites some questions. In 2007, Barnes missed one forward pass and we've been hearing about it ever since. In 2023, he came back to a missed knock on, this is apparently not correct either, because now we notice him too much. Folks need to either make peace with the 2007 performance, or with the 2023 one. One cannot argue against both and be logically consistent. A positive, in 2023 the correct decisions were made, so there's a move in the right direction imo.

@@oliverjenner9251 I liked Owens a lot but he wasn't as consistently good as Barnes, in my opinion. The RWC final was arguably the biggest ever game of rugby. There were a lot of very difficult decisions and very contentious moments he got them ALL right under intense pressure. Given how difficult THAT game of rugby was to referee he was absolutely incredible. Watch it back, the amount of really tricky spots he was in was unreal.

Do English premier rugby players even understand the rules of the game. It seems they do not and the coaches do not explain changes to them.

fuck

I think I believe the ref, Hartley did a lot of things that got him well-deserved red cards, he knew this actions were stupid too

I was bored at work so I looked up the stats. To my knowledge, Wayne Barnes has refereed the French national team on eleven occasions: 2007 - RWC Refs a French win over NZ 20 - 18 2010 - 6N Refs a 33 - 10 win over Ireland. 2011 - 6N Refs a 34 - 21 win over Scotland. 2012 - 6N Refs a 23 - 17 win over Scotland. 2015 - 6N Refed a loss to Ireland 18 - 11. 2016 - 6N Refed a loss to Wales 19 - 10. 2017 - 6N Refed a 20 - 18 win against Wales. 2018 - 6N Refed a 34 - 17 win over Italy. 2019 - 6N Refed a loss to Wales 24 - 19. 2020 - 6N Refed a 34 - 27 win over Ireland. 2023 - 6N Refed a loss to Ireland 32 - 19. Seven wins, four losses. Of course there may be other international games I have missed but that seems fairly unbiased. For full disclosure, in my brief check I must admit I didn't see any evidence to show that Jacyo Pieper or Angus Gardiner don't speak Italian.

@@vulture3874 poor you……..you seem to lead a rather boring life, my sympathies

@@jamesbenjamin8078 You're very kind Jamie, but really, it was no trouble. You see, I already had most of the information (and it is readily available) from an answer I put together from another commenter complaining about his alleged bias towards Ireland*. So your comment intrigued me; biased against both Ireland and France? I was surprised it was so easy to refute.** I suppose I could look up his records with Wales, but we both know how that's going to turn out, eh Jamie? Scotland? Frankly I lived there for thirty years, so I don't much care. Then there's Italy, but I think we can agree that they're so bad that they'd struggle to win 6N games even with a ref called Vito Corleone. As for my life, I'm good thanks Jamie. You know as little of me, as I do of you. Except, of course that you are the sort of person to double down on an inaccurate statement with a petty, ill-constructed insult. # *Also tripe by the way. **It's almost as if you didn't check. # I would never do that. Mr Poopy pants .😋

@@jamesbenjamin8078LOL! This guy pulls accusations out of his arse with no data to back it up. Then when someone actually does the research that proves him wrong, he just responds condescendingly. Just a bit of advice for when you start secondary school next year pal.. your opinion isn’t fact, and it won’t get you through life.

@@jamestaylor5417 calm down chap…….”research” on results says nothing of bias, merely results. How do you two geniuses know from this “research” that Barnes is not biased against French sides. Everyone in France understands this (cue Brexit-based racism against France)

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Says less than 0.06% of the world - the rest of us thought he was quite good, given that he is human and all.

I think he reffed it really well as a neutral, got all the big decisions right

As a Kiwi I'm more concerned over the TMO failing to follow their own laws as opposed to Wayne Barnes on-field officiating

blame the Rules, that game was reffed 100% to the current and understanding of the rules. Be salty if you want but the AB's left 5 points out there by 2 missed kicks... sorry but not enough skill.

@@MrSupermugen Not disagreeing that the ABs missed opportunities but to say the game was officiated 100% to current standards is a farce

Evidence?

Scrimmage? Are you sure you are moaning about the right sport?

@@DAILARNER can attribute that to a change by my mobile. Not sure you being a massive thicko can ever be changed. But I'm sure that doesn't stop you from spewing ignorant shite at every opportunity. It's truly the only thing you excel at.

LOL 😂 Next time get your mate Dave from the pub to officate rather than the Professionals with years of experience. You clown