World Rugby
World U20s Championships – Day 3 match officials
Here’s the appointments for Thursday’s third round of matches in the World U20s in the South of France […]
Year: 2018
7s
Joubert clocks up 200th and final World Sevens game
South African referee, Craig Joubert retired from the World Rugby 7s circuit on Sunday afternoon, clocking up his 200th and final match. Watch his reflections here: […]
World Rugby
World Rugby trial a lower tackle height at 2018 U20 competitions
World Rugby has announced a programme of dedicated law trials for the U20s tournaments to lower the acceptable height of the tackle. It is hoped that this will reduce the number of head injuries which occur to the tackler, support players and the ball carrier. For more, read here […]
Appointments
Garces on Final duty in Paris – plus SuperRugby and international referees
Jerome Garces will be in charge of the Top14 Final in Paris this weekend, plus we bring you all the appointments for SuperRugby, WorldRugby 7s in London and the international matches too […]
Show
Advantage Over podcast – Episode 5 – How the RFU are attracting more female referees
We speak to Clare Daniels from England Rugby about their drive to attract more female match officials into the game. There’s also news from around the refereeing world from the last few weeks […]
Appointments
Weekend referees 25-27 May
Referees, ARs and TMOs for the Super Rugby week 15, Top 14 semi finals, Premiership and Pro14 finals, the Elgon Cup in Africa and England v Barbarians. A feast of rugby for you all! […]
World Rugby
World U20 Championship referees gather in the Languedoc
See who will be at this year’s World U20s Championship over the next few weeks in Perpignan, Béziers and Narbonne. The tournament kicks off next Wednesday, 30 May, and runs through to 17 June. […]
Laws
Rugby law trials to be adopted in full, say World Rugby
The World Rugby Council have approved the full adoption of the 12 law trials being undetaken on a world-wide basis, after an evaluation process concludes. More here: […]
Appointments
Barnes and Berry to referee 2018 Premiership and Pro14 finals
It has been announced that Wayne Barnes and Stuart Berry are to referee this weekend’s Aviva Premiership and Guinness PRO14 finals. […]
Appointments
Africa Gold Cup appointments for SA referees
SARU have announced that four of their officials are to referee at the Africa Gold Cup later this summer. They will referee the nine Tests between Kenya, Morocco, Namibia, Tunisia, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Lusanda Mtiya & Ashleigh Murray will officiate in the Africa Women’s, & the World University Games Sevens tournaments […]