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[ 18/12/2025 ] Pinned: Davidson to referee Men’s Six Nations match as 2026 Match official appointments announced Six Nations
[ 19/02/2026 ] 19-22 February Six Nations, REC, Super Rugby and domestic appointments Appointments
[ 18/02/2026 ] Guinness Women’s Six Nations & PAC4 match officials announced Appointments
[ 12/02/2026 ] 12-15 Feb: Valentines rugby for Six Nations, Super Rugby Pacific and more Appointments
[ 11/02/2026 ] Podcast: Hollie Davidson – smashing refereeing ceilings Show
[ 09/02/2026 ] Super Rugby Pacific outlines new 2026 law tweaks Super Rugby

Episode 36 – New Zealand Rugby’s lower tackle height plans for 2023

23/02/2023 Ref Comments Off

Mike Hester, Game Participation Manager at New Zealand Rugby talks about their 2023 law variations including a lower tackle heigh across the community game […]

New episode: Tim Wyatt talks about mental skills and the psychological approach to refereeing

28/06/2022 Ref Comments Off

In Episode 33 of the Advantage Over podcast, we talk to Tim Wyatt about the psychology of refereeing, and the need for referees to develop mental skills as well as physical and game skills. […]

New Advantage Over podcast episode: Refereeing ugly

06/06/2022 Ref 2

New podcast episode where we look at how we referee the angst we sometimes get around our rugby pitches – on-field and off-field. […]

Advantage Over episode 31: Referee development in Scotland

29/04/2022 Ref Comments Off

Andrew Macpherson, High Performance Match Official Manager from Scottish Rugby joins us to talk about their new three-year Match Official Development Strategy […]

Advantage Over – Episode 30: Keeping referee fit during lockdown

07/11/2020 Ref Comments Off

Episode 30 – How to keep your fitness up with no rugby to referee. […]

Episode 27: Mental health & resilience

21/05/2020 Ref Comments Off

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

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. […]

Episode 24: Refereeing in-goal

08/04/2020 Ref 4

How should we referee in-goal? Get the low down here […]

Episode 23: The New Referee

12/02/2020 Ref 2

In Episode 23 of the Advantage Over podcast, we hear from a new referee – Alistair Falconer Hall – about what it’s like as a rookie referee, just getting started on his refereeing journey! […]

Advantage Over episode 22: Refereeing the scrum

13/12/2019 Ref 1

New episode of our free audio show – today on the podcast, we speak to Super Rugby prop, Sam Needs who founded ScrumStrong.com. We chat about all things linked to refereeing the scrum […]