Wayne Barnes

Did anyone else notice the appalling performance by WB at Quins on Saturday. I have seen him have some shockers but this one takes first prize. Both teams on the end of very bad decisions but Quins got the worst.

No not really, because I didn't think he was at all bad.

I thought he was OK - but i only saw the second half.

From the match thread it looks like both sets of fans felt he was favouring the opposition. I reckon that i sthe best a ref can hope for - upset both sets of fans equally

george doors wrote:Did anyone else notice the appalling performance by WB at Quins on Saturday. I have seen him have some shockers but this one takes first prize. Both teams on the end of very bad decisions but Quins got the worst.

With that kind of one-eyed view you should be a Glaws supporter

Barnes failed to control either set of players. From a Glaws point of view the missed Wallace block ultimately cost us the game. As did the forward pass to Wallace earlier. I can understand why Quins would be aggrieved with the final set of scrums, but despite the extra man Quins weren't pushing the Glaws scrum back until the penalty awarded to Glaws. By the letter of the law the penalty was right as Gray stood up as he did when Dan Robson was pinged for being offside. This may have swayed Barnes' decision.

Barnes' biggest fault was not getting hold of both teams and binning them for persistent scrum and breakdwon offences. He refereed it to the letter of the law, but needed to be firmer. He failed and it made the game very scrappy.

HongKongCherry wrote:

george doors wrote:Did anyone else notice the appalling performance by WB at Quins on Saturday. I have seen him have some shockers but this one takes first prize. Both teams on the end of very bad decisions but Quins got the worst.

With that kind of one-eyed view you should be a Glaws supporter

Barnes failed to control either set of players. From a Glaws point of view the missed Wallace block ultimately cost us the game. As did the forward pass to Wallace earlier. I can understand why Quins would be aggrieved with the final set of scrums, but despite the extra man Quins weren't pushing the Glaws scrum back until the penalty awarded to Glaws. By the letter of the law the penalty was right as Gray stood up as he did when Dan Robson was pinged for being offside. This may have swayed Barnes' decision.

Barnes' biggest fault was not getting hold of both teams and binning them for persistent scrum and breakdwon offences. He refereed it to the letter of the law, but needed to be firmer. He failed and it made the game very scrappy.

With that sort of one-eyed view you could be a Tigers supporter

Don't know about that Sunday game but he was pretty clueless a lot of the time during the Ireland v South Africa game. Not favoring either side just generally a number of bad calls all round. Certainly didn't look like he belonged on the International stage.