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| Scotland v Wales Glen Jackson | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Monday, 16. February 2015, 10:24 (578 Views) | |
| Whistleblower | Monday, 16. February 2015, 10:24 Post #1 |
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I was at Murrayfield on Sunday and witnessed a display of stunning incompetence from Kiwi Glen Jackson. Scotland seemed to get the worst of his decisions, a perfectly good try chalked off for a non existent forward pass and a refusal to allow the game to go to the full 80 minutes but Wales also suffered from his random calling of various foul play. Really, such was the arbitrary nature of his officiating, the teams might just have well tossed a coin at the beginning of the match to decide the winner. Jackson has been " fast tracked" from a playing career. Oh dear, when will they learn not to give major matches to people until they have had the necessary experience at a lower level ? Jackson had the misfortune to have Clancy as one of his touch judges which must have been about as much use as a chocolate fireguard. I would have thought for a relatively new international referee officiating in his first Six Nations match that the appointing authorities might have given him two extremely good referees to help him through say Barnes and one of the very experienced Frenchmen. Pity because it was an exciting match and worthy of much, much better handling than this. I should perhaps point out that I am English, totally neutral in this matter, though I was with two avid Welsh supporters who both felt Scotland were extremely unlucky in the decisions and the Welsh victory, while most welcome, left a bit of a sour taste. |
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| reflector | Monday, 16. February 2015, 20:28 Post #2 |
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I saw most of the game on TV and concur entirely with Whistleblower. I have never really understood why it's necessary to bring referees from the other side of the world for matches which could be handled, often probably more competently, by home nation officials. |
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| Failed Ref | Tuesday, 17. February 2015, 09:41 Post #3 |
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And Wayne Barnes was a good example of refereeing? A player knees someone in the back, on looking at the replay several times the referee says it is deliberate and then gives him (the Frenchman) a yellow? Two citations later and it looks as though suspensions are pending as a result of two referees failing to apply the laws of the game correctly and issue a red card. OK, the citation officer will ensure that justice will probably be done and therefore this sort of action does go punished and a deterrent is there. But where the heck (and it angers me) does that leave a junior referee on Saturday afternoon who sees something similar and whose instructions are very clear - the red card must be issued. Note that there is no video and therefore no retrospective action that can be taken in junior games. Are the rules applied differently at International level? Referees are brought in from the southern hemisphere to give them experience of refereeing European teams, to standardise refereeing across the world and to get the Northern hemisphere teams to get used to the differing ways of refereeing in the southern hemisphere. Perhaps football could learn something here? Jackson was poor on Sunday and unless the timekeeper told him otherwise he got it wrong in law when he called time when he did. |
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| Welshexref | Tuesday, 17. February 2015, 16:32 Post #4 |
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My heart sank when I saw Glen Jackson was in charge. Seen him 3 times and not been impressed at all. As a Welshman I have to say I'm amazed we didn't finish with two men in the bin. And I believe he should have restarted the game for a final play after the late conversion. |
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| Failed Ref | Tuesday, 17. February 2015, 19:17 Post #5 |
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He should have restarted play at the end - I believe there is a specific rule on this. It may have been as a result of a young referee who got into a mess several years ago about added time. A certain Nigel Owens - whatever happened to him? But as I said, I am confused and international games are not being refereed to the same standards as junior club rugby and that cannot be right. |
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