Ref breaks silence on call that shook rugby world

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Mathieu Raynal has nary regrets astir making the arguable refereeing determination that divided the rugby satellite successful the opening Bledisloe Cup Test successful Melbourne.

With the lucifer successful the balance, the Frenchman pinged Wallabies playmaker Bernard Foley for clip wasting and the All Blacks scored the winning effort from the consequent scrum to guarantee the silverware remained successful New Zealand.

A raft of experienced players, coaches, referees and journalists described the determination arsenic unprecedented successful planetary rugby.

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Raynal broke his soundlessness by speaking with reporters aft being named France's referee of the season.

"I instrumentality full work for what I did, 100 per cent," the 41-year-old said.

"I had a indispensable crushed for making the determination adjacent if it was a beardown 1 which caused radical to talk. I effort to bash what is the astir fair. That's astatine the bosom of my job.

"Sometimes it creates tensions, frustrations, arguments but I instrumentality work implicit what I do."

Raynal and Foley had a moving conflict passim the Test and the five-eighth ignored the whistleblower's petition to hold earlier kicking a conversion astatine Marvel Stadium.

Foley told Stan Sport that helium was not deliberately clip wasting and helium was simply trying to organise his teammates earlier what would person been a important lineout.

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Raynal wasn't buying that argument.

"I told a subordinate 5 times to footwear the shot to touch," Raynal claimed.

"I couldn't bash otherwise. It's not maine who decided to marque the decision, it was the subordinate who forced maine to marque it."

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Raynal, who was an adjunct referee for the 2nd Bledisloe Test successful Auckland, revealed his interactions with Wallabies manager Dave Rennie aft the Melbourne maelstrom.

"I had a treatment with him which was precise sincere and honest," Raynal said.

"He was satisfied by the refereeing during the entirety of the match. Obviously we didn't hold connected the last decision. I tin warrant we had a calm conversation."

Raynal said helium had gone retired of his distant to debar the vicious effect to his decision.

"To beryllium honorable I deleted paper and societal media applications. I had conscionable Candy Crush and the timepiece connected my phone. I didn't travel what happened.

"To support my head, it was the champion happening to bash to support focused connected the 2nd match. My occupation finishes erstwhile I permission the field."

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