Rugby Referee Analysis | All Blacks vs England Autumn Series 2022

Again, World Rugby giving me lots of content to work with. They talk about their "Trust-based coach/match officials feedback process", yet Brian MacNeice goes on to TMO the All Blacks vs England game, a week after he had a horrible TMO performance in the South Africa vs France game. How on earth are we supposed to believe World Rugby and their "Review Process" when the same bad officials keep officiating at the highest profile games, even after making game costly mistakes.

So here is the video on a video of the England vs All Blacks game, where Brian MacNeice directly influenced the result of the game with horrible decision in the TMO booth. The biggest mistake was him lying on live TV about seeing a grounding when there was absolutely no angle that showed any grounding on the try. The original decision was no try, so he had to see "Clear Evidence" to overturn it. The replay showed the ball being on the hand off an All Black player and never touching the ground, the ball the gets pushed back and they show an angle where there is a hand in front of the camera where nobody on earth can see any type of grounding. There was no visual of the ball touching the ground, and what does World Rugby's TMO say? "The ball is grounded" how on earth is that possible to happen in a high profile game like this? Not to mention the double movement before the try was scored. But apparently the Northern Hemisphere ignores double movement, you're allowed to be on your head and elbow and crawl forward, as long as your knee doesn't touch the ground. Then he also misses a clear headbutt by Ellis Genge on Whitelock where they even show the replay, where Genge goes in with no arms makes direct contact with Whitelock's head, and nothing happens yet according to World Rugby's interpretation of head contact, that is a clear red card offence. He also misses a clear no arms tackle by England 2 on an All Black player where he dived into his knees with no arms, they even asked the ref to go to the TMO, and nothing happened.

So another weekend where the best team on the field doesn't win because the TMO or Ref was horrible. But yeah, let's just trust World Rugby when they tell us there is a "review process".

Will try and post another video later today on one of the games from yesterday. But will most likely be tomorrow

Just lastly, there is no conspiracy of referees against South Africa, there is a problem with Officiating and World Rugby in general. Where there is no accountability at all. This weekend proved the exact same thing, referees and TMO are allowed to make crucial mistakes and not face any consequences for their performances. World Rugby is trying to hide it, and this next few months I will expose them for it. This is not something that happens just against South Africa, this is a problem all the teams are facing.

[ohnoitsjosh]

I was watching the Arg vs Scot game and I was so shocked how the TMO was watching Arg tackles and clean outs like a hawk but Scot forward pass, offside line, and head on head and nothing gets done but if it was Arg then they got called and look how many cards Arg got!
World rugby is a disgrace at the moment and these refs are favoring the NH teams way too much at the moment.
Don't get me wrong arg did deserve those cards but where Is the consistency? Why did the TMO never look at Scot and the foul play they did

[pietpadda]

If world rugby makes the review and feedback processes anonymous, at least publish the results with anonymous data for the public to see that action is being taken. It feels like World Rugby is not doing anything to sort their refs out before the the World cup. Noone wants a circus next year.

[Joubz]

World Rugby need to be held Accountable! They are happy to ban Rassie for speaking out just to create fear for other coaches who are thinking the same thing. World rugby should hang their heads in shame

[roblowrie]

There also appears to be a no arm shoulder into an England player in the ruck, where the AB player was penalised for the neck roll, another player comes in and nails an England player in the head with his shoulder!! Doesn't get mentioned by anyone!!

[seankolarik]

My point about Rassie is that he is the only coach trying to stop these pathetic wrong calls which could cost a player an international career in a single call

[MaxOstilio]

No accountability breeds corruption.
Trust us, we know... 🇿🇦

[andrewdstokes]

Three comments:
1. Thanks for the level of analysis. It's cool to see, and with super slow-mo like this, the TMOs need to be on notice that you (and/or others) will do more of this.
2. Over 80 minutes of rugby, I bet you could also find examples of infractions from the other side too. Doing so would strengthen your argument that the game is not being reffed to the highest standards, versus an implication that the refs and TMO are deliberately lying or cheating to give advantage to Northern Hemisphere over Southern. If you want to make that argument, you need to go a lot further than just picking a couple of decisions you do not like. In fact - you need to demonstrate how far you are going to try to prove the opposite - that there are decisions in the opposite direction that you don't like, that then makes the point for asking for higher standards, versus for cheating.
3. We all accept that this is a tough physical game, and the players always get away with something, somewhere, with the ref missing and no TMO review. All I want is that the amount of liberty being taken is equal on each side, and that the TMO picks up the dangerous plays immediately. (E.g. your point on the no-arms knee tackles are 100% on point.)

[HiMom]

Im a Kiwi but most of all I’m a rugby fan.
I can live with refereeing mistakes.
but what I struggle to understand is don’t tell us theirs a crackdown on players safety and then on these occasions blatantly miss them.

So of course a part of me feels like do they pick and choose which ones to penalise because let’s be bloody honest if some of those penalties are given the score is in danger of totally blowing out.

Example Reiko Ioane scores to to potentially make the score 21-0 early in the first half, TMO intervenes for a neck roll.
problem with this, players cleaning out while having the arm around the head, neck area of player is common

[williegauche]

Don't know the visual standard of this video poater, but both times he says 'no arms' I saw no2 diving with outstretched open arms.

[mplace]

As a Bokke Fan and a South African...thank you Rassie for exposing the corruption in WR and the these Ref's...I hope the All Black supporters who were nailing me complaining about these TMO and AR's can see for themselves...this was a disgusting way of officiating...and nothing will happen to them once again...Keep going Russie🏉🇿🇦

[sammy-ixkk]

Honestly this a great review of the game. It shades the light that we springboks see on the refereeing. For this to have happened in high profile game like shows that World Rugby has a lot of work to do

[convillejoseph]

Valid points you making here. That call on that being a "try" was the most ridiculous decision I've ever seen. 😤

[mvs]

Do you actually send this to World Rugby because its time their emails gets flooded with these examples?

[realdluvchrist]

Another Great and Sensibly articulated description 💯.
I totally Agree with you and share your sentiment.💯
Whatever they are doing or trying to do is Woefully Inept, Inconsequential, inconsistent and extremely disheartening to say the very least.
I really appreciate your Channel/ Work/ videos and bringing wisdom and insight to a Blatantly Questionable WR officiating system/ process.
The question of possible Corruption must be asked.
Officiating ala Goonies from the Boondocks. Excellence, Honesty and integrity doesn't come close to the importance of money when it comes to these people. I can guarantee you this.
Peace ❤️🙏

[carlosdcardona]

These rugby referees are disgusting! This DIRTY PLAY is allowed...which should have been in automatic RED CARD! Then the Argentinian player Marcos Kremer was sent off in the game against Scotland for doing absolutely NOTHING! A made up call of head contact which never existed! Rugby needs to get it's referees in ORDER!

[mauroger]

This happened way too often in multiple matches against SH teams. SA could have easily won both against Ireland and France, ref made sure they didn't. Yesterday NZ (they also made their own mistakes, don't get me wrong) also should have won this match by a big margin but ref made sure they didn't. I am sick of this bullshit intent to equalize inferior northern teams to superior southern teams. Get ready for the next world cup, its going to be a shit show.

[raymondgilbourne]

Wasn't there a deliberate knock-on by the AB defender for the 1st England try.
Was that worthy of comment?

[dchhiboo]

It's easy to see in numerous games in this autumn tour that southern hemisphere teams are being intentionally targeted. Some blatantly ignoring some straightforward decisions.

[matiasherrera]

I'm Argie, kremner was "red carded " against Scotland...for less than that... WRU...with this referee's are killing the game...and it's super suspicious...ps. Pichot..it's the problem ..we know him really well....

[billyisabwa]

@TASanalytics thanks for the reviews. I am convinced the situation will worsen for SH teams come next year world cup