World Rugby statement: Gonzalo Quesada banned under new match official abuse process

They should bring back corporal punishment

i understand that Australia is in real trouble when a 6 week ban is given to a red carded player (2 week pledging guilty, but is there really a chance to appeal without losing half a a season?) because he dared to free himself from other players unlawfully holding him at the breakdown and the coach is banned for talking about a rugby match that just happened earlier with his team playing and losing

what is left to say… Oz you should really win this one, WR can't allow a blue shirt over a gold one

now ban me

Watching the game live i felt that the ABs got ‘the rub of the green’ more often than not. I felt that a lot of 50:50 decisions went against them. As a result, I wasn’t surprised by Quesada's criticism .. as coaches live and die according to results whilst the performance of referees are often overlooked or don’t have the same consequences.

However, I would add that Ramos is a fine referee (who, I felt, had an off day!)

Pagliacci

Davvero ridicoli! Ramos era già stato criticato per il suo arbitraggio spudoratamente di parte a Treviso. Whitehouse negli anni ha dato prova, soprattutto a Parma arbitrando le Zebre, di non gradire le squadre italiane. Quesada non ha offeso nessuno, ma ha snocciolato episodio per episodio il suo disappunto per gli errori che tutti hanno potuto vedere. Quesada è una persona pacata, gentile e umile, ma ha pagato il conto di tutti. WR una masnada di burocrati che stanno tentando di rovinare il nostro bellissimo sport!

Gli AB avrebbero comunque vinto perchè superiori e non hanno bisogno di essere ‘aiutati’ in questo modo perchè diventa a loro volta umiliante per il popolo rugbistico neozelandese!!

The issue is that players and coaches have to bear the consequences of their actions in public (in game and ex post). But referees are insulated and the public don't have sight of the consequences.

Social media backlash only happens because the public don't believe referees are subject to consequence management and feel there is no outlet for their frustrations.

Even the protocols of how they deal with referee reviews are shrouded in mystery to the public.

If the post game referee review was made public, the public would understand that referees face consequences so there would be much less backlash. An added bonus would be that people will also learn the nuances of the laws.

In short, WR publicly lynches coaches and players, but they don't do the same for refs and that discrepancy will continue to fuel referee backlash.

Ridiculous

I think we’ve all seen far worse comments from coaches go unpunished, however I am very in favour of World Rugby formalising, and tightening up against avenues of criticism of referees; particularly in a sport which is so subjective, and so difficult to officiate as rugby.

There are precedents in almost every sport that the management of participating sports teams bring the game into disrepute when they mouth off at perceived injustices.

That’s not saying that there shouldn’t be a process for the evidential querying (ie video) of substandard officiating.

It’s not hard to separate the two.

He spoke the truth and got banned lol

Personally not a fan of this ban. Coaches should be able to criticise a ref and it is rediculus to attack a ref for the actions that others might or might not do. It is up to the game to clarify the laws better and create a framework which involves information being given to the fans of the game around ref performances and decisions. Not this current hide behind closed doors because they have made a mess of the game laws. This is professional sport and the refs are well paid professionals. The non professional side of the sport different story but I do not agree with this in the professional game, particularly at the highest level. Refs need to be accountable and this closed door accountability is rubbish and is why the ref standards in rugby are well below professional standards. The game needs to do better with the laws and the guidelines of implementation of the laws, then be information to the game (fans are a major stakeholder in the game).

That’s not a surprise tbh couldn’t help but notice Rennie threw what I perceived as a shot back talking about Italian tactics at lineout closing gap and using injury to slow game down which he said they had previewed and knew they would try