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Red-carded Scott Barrett faces missing the start of the World Cup
Ian Foster’s All Blacks became the latest country to become embroiled in red card trouble ahead of the upcoming Rugby World Cup when Scott Barrett was sent off by referee Matthew Carley just before the interval at Twickenham on Friday night.
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England picked up bans last Tuesday for Owen Farrell and Billy Vunipola that will see them miss their country’s start at France 2023.
Tonga’s Georga Moala was also unsuccessful on Thursday in his appeal of his five-game suspension for his tournament warm-up red card, and now New Zealand will be fretting that Barrett could be suspended for their September 8 World Cup opener versus France in Paris.
His penalty-ridden team, who went on to lose 7-35, were massively under the pump in the opening stages of their Qatar Airways Cup clash with the Springboks in London and Barrett was initially yellow carded on 14 minutes, a sin-binning that was swiftly followed a minute later by a yellow card for skipper Sam Cane.
South Africa used their two-man advantage to take a seven-point lead on 18 minutes courtesy of a converted Siya Kolisi try, and they doubled that lead on 34 minutes when Kurt-Lee Arendse was gifted an intercept by Jordie Barrett.
Scott Barrett – you do know there are 17 cameras around the pitch ? #NZLvRSA pic.twitter.com/xcfgPZjlLU
— Brett Igoe (@brettruganalyst) August 25, 2023
At this stage, New Zealand were 10-3 down on the penalty count and their frantic effort to get something back before the break resulted in a moment of madness from Barrett, who needlessly crashed his right shoulder down into the prone Malcolm Marx just metres from the try line.
With the clock stopped on 39 minutes, referee Carley reviewed the footage and opted to show Barrett another yellow card, resulting in him getting sent off and leaving him sweating over the receipt of a potential ban that would prevent him from being available to play against the French in two weeks’ time.
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The red card was the second brandished to Barrett in his All Blacks career. He was previously sent off in August 2019 away to Australia in the Bledisloe Cup, but his resulting ban had expired by the time that year’s World Cup in Japan began.
Down a player for the entire second half in London, the night soon went from bad to worse for the All Blacks as tries from Marx, Bongi Mbonambi (while teammate Pieter-Steph du Toit was on a yellow) and Kwagga Smith pushed the score to 35-0 by the 67th minute before Cam Roigard managed a late converted consolation.
REACTION (part one): Ian Foster opens up on the All Blacks' record defeat in London and the red card given to Scott Barrett. #AllBlacks #NZRvRSA #QatarCup #RWC2023 pic.twitter.com/6uBtxuuCGd
— RugbyPass (@RugbyPass) August 25, 2023
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“While Sotutu should start at No.8 for the All Blacks against England, but it’s only in that arena that he can prove just how good he really is.” And that my friends is where simply hasnt shone despite multiple opportunities. Even in this performance you can see what did him in in the test arena..he almost always still runs at the opposition almost ramrod upright making him easier to stop than it should be.
1 Go to commentsShould have been 0-0 and a message from SR CEO to both teams - “don’t worry about turning up next year”.
3 Go to commentsGreat work Owen Franks. A great of this team, scoring his first try for the Crusaders since 2010.He was beaming, justifiably. A fine win, he and the rest did the job up front.
1 Go to commentsDanny Care. Lang in die tand.
1 Go to commentsBig empty stadium does nothing for atmosphere but munster are playing well with solid performance
1 Go to commentsYes, Fiji can win the World Cup! With that belief plus their christian faith🙏 and hard work it is achievable. Great article. Ian Duncan Fiji resident 1981-84
2 Go to commentsInteresting comments about Touch. England’s hosting the Touch World Cup this year and the numbers have exploded since their last World Cup in 2019, something like 70% more teams and 40 nations taking part. And England Touch have made a big thing about how many universities are in their BUCS University Touch Championship as well as Sport England membership. Can only see this growing even more domestically as more people become aware of it
10 Go to comments“Cortez Ratima is light years ahead of anyone on current form, while TJ Perenara has also skyrocketed into contention following the unfortunate injury to the talented Cam Roigard.” At last some sanity. Hitherto so many pundits have been wittering on about Finlay Christie to the point one wondered if they were observing a FC in a parallel universe where the FC they saw wasnt just the mediocre Shayne Philpott project of Fosters hapless AB reign in the real world. Ratima, Perenara and Fakatava are the ONLY logical 9s for Razor now Roigard is crocked.
3 Go to commentsThis game was just as painful as the Hurricanes game. It was real fork-in-the-eye stuff.
3 Go to commentsNow if they could just fire the Crusaders ground PA guy who likes to play his dance music and just loves the sound of his own voice the entire game, even when play is going on. And I thought their brass band thing of a few years ago was bad.
5 Go to commentsUnfortunately when you lose by far the two form players this season in Roigard and Aumua, you're left replacing two game changing Tanks with a couple of pea-shooters. Which is also about the speed of TJs pass.
4 Go to commentsBit rich coming from the guy with zero loyalty to anyone or any team, including happily taking a players place in a league world cup squad because well, SBW wanted to play in it and thus an already named player got told he was no longer going. And airing stuff like this, which may or may not be true, doesn't exactly say you're a stand up guy either SBW. Just looking to keep his name in lights as usual.
38 Go to commentsTamati Tua. …the Taniwha NPC midfielder. Ollie Sapsford, Hawkes Bay NPC midfielder…doing well
4 Go to commentsFiji deserve to be in the rugby championship, fans love seeing the Fijian national team play, the Fijian Drua is a wonderful idea but the players can still be stolen to play for NZ and AUS…
2 Go to commentsThe first concern for this afternoon are wheather forecast…
1 Go to commentsWhy cant I watch Rugby games please?
1 Go to commentsBeautiful shot from Finau, end of story. Gutted for Shaun Stevenson though.
4 Go to commentsThe Chiefs definitely didn’t win ugly. They had the superior scrum, a dominant lineout, and their defence was excellent once the Waratahs scored their two tries (thanks to some lucky refereeing calls mind you). They put pressure on the Waratahs lineout throughout the game, and the mind boggles as to why the referee did not award a yellow card or a penalty try against the Waratahs for repeated scrum infringements on their own try line before Narawa’s first try. And the Chiefs were slick with their passing and running angles on attack. It was a dominant performance all round, even with many questionable refereeing decisions.
1 Go to commentsWasnt late. Ref 2 assistants andTMO all saw it so who are you to say it was?
4 Go to commentsAre the Brumbies playing the Blues twice in a row?
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