Some great news from the IRB for one of our up and coming referees: http://www.scrumqueens.com/news/180-womens-referees-to-make-history.html Women’s Rugby World Cup in 2010 will not only showcase the world’s leading players, but it will see ten of […]
According to the Rugby Paper today, Matt Goddard has retired from refereeing due to a chronic injury. No clues as to what that was, but never nice to see one of the top guys having […]
Henry Allingham – 6 June 1896 – 18 July 2009 Harry Patch – 17 June 1898 – 25 July 2009 I don’t apologise for this non-rugby post, but I’m just watching BBC2s tribute to […]
Glad to see Steve Walsh is back in the game. Obviously sorted himself out after his public fall from grace in NZ and now it seems the Australians have taken him under their wing. Now […]
Sources advise that Joel Jutge has been beaten by injury and has retired from refereeing. Can only find it briefly here: http://www.scrum.com/scrum/rugby/story/98352.html Sad news – apart from the terrible plastic whistle he used, he was […]
An interesting article in today’s Independent newspaper on the issue of neutral referees in the forthcoming Lions’ Tests series. What do you think?
Donal Courtney, the former Irish international referee, has been appointed as ERC’s first Match Officials Performance Manager. The ERC is the organising committee behind the Heineken Cup and the other various European tournaments. Full details […]
http://www.irb.com/mm/document/newsmedia/0/090428ccbritishirishlionstour2009matchofficialsxls_7594.pdf Interesting!
Source: http://www.planetrugby.com/Story/0,18259,3943_5246118,00.html Walsh hangs up his whistle Monday 27th April 2009 New Zealand’s longest serving professional referee Steve Walsh has retired from his job with the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) following an enquiry into […]
Neutral referees for Lions tests Friday 13 March 2009 The International Rugby Board has announced that the referee appointments for the three British & Irish Lions Tests in South Africa will come from neutral countries. […]
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