Barnes to hang up the whistle - agrees with me about the TMO.

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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.
 

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WB must be half hoping England make the RWC final .... and three-quarters hoping England DON'T make the RWC final :)

Yes, good interview. WB will go out on top , anf hopefully still with time to double down on his career as a barrister in time to take silk,

Good luck Barnesy
 

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WB must be half hoping England make the RWC final .... and three-quarters hoping England DON'T make the RWC final :)
cf Chris White in 2003.

I wonder if premiership and international rugby is good background training for specialising in bribery and corruption at the bar? I would like to think not!
 

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Pains me to say this as a Scotsman, WB has been in the top 5 of the world's referee's for a number of years now, and will hopefully bow out after having refereed the biggest game in world rugby, The World Cup final( thats's if England dont make it)
 
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