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Ref mic audio picks up Neil Jenkins harassing Mathieu Raynal

Neil Jenkins and Matthieu Raynal exchanges gruff words.
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Ref mic audio has captured Welsh rugby legend Neil Jenkins engaging in a heated verbal exchange with referee Mathieu Raynal during Wales and Italy’s Six Nations clash in Cardiff.

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The incident occurred 23 minutes into the game as Italy led Wales, with Wales’ assistant coach Jenkins pausing to offer unsolicited advice to Raynal as he brought water to the Welsh players, critiquing Italy’s scrumhalf Stephen Varney for allegedly making a high tackle on a Welsh player.

French official Raynal – known for his no-nonsense approach – did not take kindly to Jenkins’s suggestions, marking a tense moment in the match.

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Jenkins: “High tackle blue nine?”

Raynal: “Your job is to bring the water on.”

Jenkins: “Your job is to ref the game.”

Raynal: “That’s the second time you have talked to me.”

Jenkins: “Blue nine high tackle, our staff are saying it, blue nine high tackle.”

Raynal: “Come here, that is the last time, next time you cannot enter the field. You understand?”

Jenkins: “Yeah, yeah.”

You can watch the exchange below:

Jenkins – who has a storied history in rugby – both as a player and a coach will no doubt attract criticism for the comments. RugbyPass understands that under current World Rugby protocols, as Raynal did not penalise Wales for Jenkins’ comments,  he will not face a Six Nations disciplinary panel over the exchange.

Jenkins is celebrated in rugby for his impeccable accuracy as a kicker. Beginning his career at Pontypridd he soon became a fixture in the Wales national team.

Jenkins was pivotal in games amassing over 1,000 points in the Test arena over the course of a 87-cap Wales career. His skills also shone in British & Irish Lions tours.

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He currently sits 5th in the all-time points scorers list with 1090.

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We are already seeing evidence the future of the red roses looks less good with the u20 and u18 losing regularly now-not just to france who thrashed us at u18 and u20 level(and have done past few years) but also to the celtic teams.There is no guarantee senior level red roses success will continue indefinitely. We need more playing opportunities for young english players in the PWR-expanding to more english teams like Bath and Newcastle,which should be the priority, would help with that. Yet the RFU in its wisdom seems keen to bring in a welsh team,an irish team and a scottish team- something that would only benefit our rivals not us. They would become defacto national teams playing in the PWR and would only help them grow and develop. We already helping most teams with their squads playing in PWR. But including teams from other countries would be taking it to another level. Focus on english expansion first-bath,newcastle -maybe a team in yorkshire or cornwall

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Agree on Wright, it will be hard to overlook him if he plays at the same level than last year !

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BC1812 1 hour ago
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It’s all very well for the RFU to finance and develop overseas players in English teams, though I think it need so be scaled back, but enabling international Home Nations teams to play week in, week out is several steps too far and will be to the detriment of the Red Roses.

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SB 1 hour ago
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TT. 1 hour ago
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Due to the League’s influence in our opinion ? Too young to recall that sadly…

Aren’t Paisami and Flook leaving Australia this summer ? Crichton could be the solution to a lot of their problems indeed.



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NB 2 hours ago
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Let’s hope so. Hunter Paisami is having a good season at 12 for the Reds, Len Ikitau is top drawer and Josh Flook at a very smart 13, so there is some material to work with there…

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They might start him at 14 and then move him to FB once he gets the hang of the backfield pendulum….

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SB 2 hours ago
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Fully agree, although 15 requires a lot of intelligence and I’m not sure he covers the back field well enough. Wing might be the best option for him.

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Do you think Joe Schmidt still believe that he will become a better outside center or does he only let him play that position because Australia does not have enough depth at outside center while they have plenty of wingers and quite a few good fullbacks ? Tbh, I completly agree that Sua’ali’i would be way better as a fullback but would his replacement be better than him for Australia as a 13 ?

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