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Wayne Barnes will retire after the RWC in 2019. Good interview here with Bob Kitson of The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/aug/29/wayne-barnes-rugby-referee-retiring-tmo
WB advocates something I have been championing for a long time - use the TMO just like the ARs; have them call in what they see and have them able to answer questions on the run without stopping the game.
In Barnes’s view it would also be helpful to have more, rather than less, input from the television match official up in the stand. “I would expand it so we can check whatever we want without necessarily stopping the game. If, in a crucial moment, I can ask: ‘Is that a forward pass?’ and someone can tell me the answer in three seconds we don’t need to stop the game for 30-40 seconds. It’s like a scrum-half constantly talking to his No 10.” If such support had been on tap in 2007, it would certainly have saved him a world of angst.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/aug/29/wayne-barnes-rugby-referee-retiring-tmo
WB advocates something I have been championing for a long time - use the TMO just like the ARs; have them call in what they see and have them able to answer questions on the run without stopping the game.
In Barnes’s view it would also be helpful to have more, rather than less, input from the television match official up in the stand. “I would expand it so we can check whatever we want without necessarily stopping the game. If, in a crucial moment, I can ask: ‘Is that a forward pass?’ and someone can tell me the answer in three seconds we don’t need to stop the game for 30-40 seconds. It’s like a scrum-half constantly talking to his No 10.” If such support had been on tap in 2007, it would certainly have saved him a world of angst.