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<blockquote data-quote="RedruthRFC" data-source="post: 900298" data-attributes="member: 58362"><p>Strange question - for the reasons I gave! Furthermore, to me, referees should have gravitas, clowning around and being matey with the players destroys this.</p><p></p><p>Bringing the game into disrepute has nothing to do with anything, I'm not accusing anyone of doing this, I'm just saying that there are better ways for referees to conduct themselves. I think that Healey is trying to say that the Nigel Owens One Man Show is indeed changing the outcome of games. Maybe he's right and Owens' decline in performance is down to a feeling of being more important than the game itself (hence within his rights to make things up as he goes along), maybe he would have declined just the same if he went straight home after every match to watch match tapes, not emerging until his next appointment, I have no way of knowing and don't see how anyone else can. One thing I am sure of is that by behaving as he does and indulging in extracurricular activities, he's leaving himself open to criticism.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RedruthRFC, post: 900298, member: 58362"] Strange question - for the reasons I gave! Furthermore, to me, referees should have gravitas, clowning around and being matey with the players destroys this. Bringing the game into disrepute has nothing to do with anything, I'm not accusing anyone of doing this, I'm just saying that there are better ways for referees to conduct themselves. I think that Healey is trying to say that the Nigel Owens One Man Show is indeed changing the outcome of games. Maybe he's right and Owens' decline in performance is down to a feeling of being more important than the game itself (hence within his rights to make things up as he goes along), maybe he would have declined just the same if he went straight home after every match to watch match tapes, not emerging until his next appointment, I have no way of knowing and don't see how anyone else can. One thing I am sure of is that by behaving as he does and indulging in extracurricular activities, he's leaving himself open to criticism. [/QUOTE]
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