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<blockquote data-quote="fcukernaut" data-source="post: 154131"><p>I don't believe in the old notion that "human error is part of the game". Yes at club rugby on Saturday you can forgive a guy who's refereeing because he blew his knee out a few years ago and just wants to have a beer with the boys. But when it comes to the World Cup, the most important games on the planet, consistently getting calls wrong is unaccepable. Regardless whether you believe Barnes was poor or not, it is neither here nor there, we have to get past this and look to the future. Unfortunately, this is far from the first time poor refereeing has been brought up in this tournament. That is the truely sad part. I think the iRB should certainly put more focus not only into developing rugby nations, but developing top flight rugby referees. What also needs to be amened is the interpretations of referees. There needs to be consistency between both SH referees and NH referees. As of right now, we do know that NH refs interperate calls differently than SH refs. Going forward, idealy, you'd like to not even notice the difference between any referee that is qualified to do international games.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fcukernaut, post: 154131"] I don't believe in the old notion that "human error is part of the game". Yes at club rugby on Saturday you can forgive a guy who's refereeing because he blew his knee out a few years ago and just wants to have a beer with the boys. But when it comes to the World Cup, the most important games on the planet, consistently getting calls wrong is unaccepable. Regardless whether you believe Barnes was poor or not, it is neither here nor there, we have to get past this and look to the future. Unfortunately, this is far from the first time poor refereeing has been brought up in this tournament. That is the truely sad part. I think the iRB should certainly put more focus not only into developing rugby nations, but developing top flight rugby referees. What also needs to be amened is the interpretations of referees. There needs to be consistency between both SH referees and NH referees. As of right now, we do know that NH refs interperate calls differently than SH refs. Going forward, idealy, you'd like to not even notice the difference between any referee that is qualified to do international games. [/QUOTE]
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