1
All Blacks lock Scott Barrett cleared to play
By Ian Cameron
All Blacks second row Scott Barrett has been cleared to play with immediate effect after his double yellow card at the weekend was deemed sufficient.
ADVERTISEMENT
Barrett faced a panel following a red card he received in his side’s Rugby World Cup 2023 warm-up game against South Africa on Friday night in Twickenham. The red card was a result of two prior yellow cards.
Barrett ultimately paid the price for the All Blacks’ lack-lustre discipline which saw them give away a staggering number of penalties, and eventually, referee Matthew Carley had enough.
The independent judicial committee decided “that his ordering off in the RWC 2023 Warm Up match against South Africa on 25 August 2023 was sufficient” and that no further sanction was necessary.
The Committee, led by Sir James Dingemans (England), with Olly Kohn (Wales) and Valeriu Toma (Romania), determined that the Judicial Committee must impose a penalty for persistent offences as stipulated in Appendix 4 of Regulation 17.
The focus was on persistent wrongdoing rather than individual substantive violations linked to each yellow card, per Regulation 17, Appendix 4, B.1. As per Appendix 4, B 2(c), the Committee could decide that the red card sufficed if the temporary suspensions were due to technical infractions, including those that followed a team warning, which didn’t entail breaches of laws 9.11 to 9.28.
The All Blacks will be breathing a sigh of relief, even if the panel ruling was effectively a foregone conclusion given the context.
ADVERTISEMENT
“The facts are he got a yellow card, the first yellow card was not for foul play. The second yellow card was a yellow card, so it wasn’t a red card,” said All Blacks head coach Ian Foster on Saturday.“The judiciary, fortunately, don’t judge people on the reaction of people on the opposition, they judge it on the facts.”
great hope he thanked the judicy and prommised to keep out of trouble for a while
How Not Mass a game
As a South African I agree with Jeff Wilson, there are numerous similar incidents during a game and it should be all blown consistently.
That’s why the Bakkies incident and citing during the 2009 Lions series must’ve had an agenda behind it.
Also the AB's need to take note the they have lost the plot 3 times agains bigger teams wich include the B&I lions, made the same mistake by replacing the 6 remember the other time it was Jerome Kaino and now Jacobson. How on earth did whoever made that choice think how the 7 of the AB's would measure up against 8 of SA? AND THAT WHILE THEY STRUGGLED ALREADY 8 VS 8
If you look at the game the AB's lost upfront 7 vs 8 and not 14 vs 15, this is really not a train smash it was a big score though, The Kurtly Arendse try did change momentum quite to the springbok side and that was an intercept try you can imagine if the ball did go through the hands for the AB's what the game would've been like, I think much closer
Phew! Fossie desperately needs Barrett - and to start at 6. The Boks showed what happens at scrum time when your back row alone is giving away 35 kgs (can't just blame the props) and a lot of height - can't expect Jacobson (1.91) to compete in the line-out against Du Toit (2.0). No genuine 3rd option puts huge pressure on the thrower. The Boks showed we've got to power up in the loosies to give our tight 5 a chance of holding their own. Cane shouldn't even be on the bench. That's one thing Eddie's got right - would take Hooper/Valetini/McWreight any day over the ABs loosies who played at Twickenham,
I don't think SA played any great rugby. They played winning rugby at any cost with a bulldozing and bruising mentality, no style, and very little class. It's brainless rugby, might as well call it league. Win at any cost? Maybe! They will get found out in WC pretty soon. Big man can't run, can't think, that's why even Japan kicked their rear a few World Cups ago, hardly worth worrying that they beat the AB's. Only 3 good teams in the WC - France, Ireland and the AB's. France will play AB's in the final, and win. 😂
It was a shit performance by the ABs I've never seen us play that bad. It's like they were intentionally trying to put themselves under pressure and it backfired. SA were awesome though blew us off the park in that first 20. It was the right call his yellow was never upgraded to red and first was a team yellow. For anyone from SA who thinks otherwise I think you should be thanking the heavens PSDTs yellow wasn't upgraded coz it looked very similar to Vunipolas one and he was quite clearly shitting his pants for 8 of his 10 mins he was on the naughty spot
Did anyone see the head charge to the back of Whitelocks head while he was on the ground and...... nothing... no penalty... nothing
common sense from the judiciary... how novel