Advantage Over podcast – Episode 16 – Richard Every, Referee Manager at US Major League Rugby

In this episode, we speak to US Major League Rugby‘s Referee Manager, Richard Every. Until recently, he was head of high performance refereeing at US Rugby, but now focusses on the elite tier of rugby across north America. We talk about:

• Richard’s refereeing background in his native South Africa;
• His work with USA Rugby, and now US Major League Rugby;
• How he’s using a core group of US-based officials, and a series of guest referees from around world rugby but with a co-ordinated group ethos;
• How the US MLR refereeing management group operates;
• The new Advantage system of match recording and analysis
• The content, including the toughest of law tests, coming from Advantage

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