Refereeing upsets Redpath

Gloucester coach calls for consistency from match officials

By Rachel Griffiths   Last updated: 28th November 2009   Subscribe to RSS Feed

Refereeing upsets Redpath

Redpath: Unhappy with ref standard

You have to be careful what you say about officials these days, people get fined or banned. But I was not happy with some of what happened out there, to both teams. I don't think it was of the right standard

Bryan Redpath
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Gloucester head coach Bryan Redpath has hit out at the standard of refereeing during his team's 35-29 defeat to Harlequins at the Twickenham Stoop.

The former Scotland scrum-half praised his side for the way they clawed their way back into contention in the second half, but admitted he was disappointed by the display from match official Tim Wigglesworth.

"I was happy with a lot of things, but unhappy with some of the one on one situations where we made mistakes," said Redpath.

"You have to be careful what you say about officials these days, people get fined or banned. But I was not happy with some of what happened out there, to both teams. I don't think it was of the right standard.

"I did say two weeks ago that if we could get five points from two games then I'd be happy. So that's what we've achieved, yet the 18 points in the first half were actually helped by us.

"We created opportunities and could have taken two points out of it. We needed a win as much as Harlequins did and they came away with it.

"My problem is that we now have games refereed differently from week to week. You need these games to be the same every week in terms of how they are run."

Impressed

Harlequins coach John Kingston revealed he was thoroughly impressed by his team's performance, particularly as the side were missing injured players.

"I thought we played some wonderful rugby in passages and I did not think the score did justice to us," said Kingston.

"They played some good rugby in the second half when they had to claw their way back, but I'm very pleased with our performance.

"We had a chat on Monday when we got our players back from their Test duties, and we have a way of playing that says to teams, this is what we are going to do and it's up to you to try and stop it.

"There are areas we were not happy with, but we can deal with that. It's inevitable that people will focus on Nick Easter or Danny Care in terms of who played really well.

"But I thought George Robson had a fine game, Chris Robshaw the same while George Lowe scored two good tries and is playing very well.

"We still have players out injured, so I am very pleased with what we did and how we played out there."