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Super Rugby appointments – 3-5 July

03/07/2020 Ref Comments Off on Super Rugby appointments – 3-5 July

The weekend appointments for the four fixtures- two in New Zealand, and for the first time this season, two in Australia. […]

Referee Nic Berry from RUgby Australia gives yellow card
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Rugby Australia to trial law changes in Super Rugby AU

16/06/2020 Ref 9

The seven law changes being trialled by Rugby Australia as Super Rugby AU looks to restart […]

News

Referee Roundup – June 2020

09/06/2020 Ref Comments Off on Referee Roundup – June 2020

A roundup of stories from around the rugby refereeing world […]

Laws

Post Covid-19 law variation options announced by World Rugby

28/05/2020 Ref Comments Off on Post Covid-19 law variation options announced by World Rugby

World Rugby have set out law trial variations for individual unions to consider in a post-Covid-19 world […]

Show

Episode 27: Mental health & resilience

21/05/2020 Ref Comments Off on Episode 27: Mental health & resilience

New episode of the AdvantageOver podcast. Let’s talk mental health, resilience and refereeing with Nick Marshall […]

Blog

Rugby World: Slow motion replays? Good or bad?

14/05/2020 Ref Comments Off on Rugby World: Slow motion replays? Good or bad?

RugbyReferee.net’s Keith Lewis writes in the June 2020 Rugby World magazine […]

Law change 8.2a removes post protector
Laws

Law change: Grounded against post protector removed as scoring possibility

12/05/2020 Ref 1

World Rugby announces removal of post protector from law outlining the scoring a try […]

News

New South America Rugby women’s referee panel announced

05/05/2020 Ref Comments Off on New South America Rugby women’s referee panel announced

South America Rugby have announced their first ever female referees panel. […]

Show

Episode 25: Advantage and how we should referee it

27/04/2020 Ref 1

New Episode of the Advantage Over podcast – We look at advantage – How rugby referees should apply the advantage law? Why is advantage longer and shorter? And why it’s hard to get consistency. […]

News

Nigel Owens: “Im not done yet”

11/04/2020 Ref Comments Off on Nigel Owens: “Im not done yet”

Writing on Wales Online, the WRU’s Nigel Owens explains why he thinks he has another few seasons refereeing before he retires. […]

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