One English rugby player isn’t happy with Irish ref George Clancy’s World Cup appointment

You can’t please everyone

Irish referees George Clancy and John Lacey have been named on the 12-man panel that will officiate the games at the Rugby World Cup later this year.

This news hasn’t gone down too well everywhere with Wasps out-half Andy Goode going into full passive aggressive mode when tweeting his hope that Clancy has mastered some of the more basic laws of the game by the time September rolls around.

https://twitter.com/AndyGoode10/status/585500631647047680

Clancy took charge of Wasps’ defeat by Toulon in the Champions Cup quarter-final at the weekend and failed to spot a seemingly blatant pull back by Ali Williams, who later went on to score a try in Toulon’s 32-18 victory. Goode, it would seem, is still smarting.

A penny for the (honest) thoughts of the Irish squad at Wayne Barnes’ selection!

The full list of officials chosen for the Rugby World Cup is as follows: 

Wayne Barnes (RFU), George Clancy (IRFU), JP Doyle (RFU), Jérôme Garcès (FFR), Pascal Gaüzère (FFR), Glen Jackson (NZR), Craig Joubert (SARU), John Lacey (IRFU), Nigel Owens (WRU), Jaco Peyper (SARU), Romain Poite(FFR), Chris Pollock (NZR).

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