New Zealand’s referees will be stepping out in pink in this year’s Super Rugby tournament thanks to a three-year sponsorship deal with Pink® Batts®.
According to the allblacks.com website, the deal means a new strip for referees with their pink socks, shorts and shirt uniform making a debut next weekend in Round 2 of Super Rugby when the Highlanders host the reigning champion Chiefs in Dunedin, and the Hurricanes host the Blues in Wellington.
NZRU High Performance Referees Manager Rod Hill said: “We’re looking forward to raising the visibility of referees to rugby followers and if the colour gets people talking then that’s fantastic. What’s really important is that Pink® Batts®’ support will help increase awareness and interest in what referees do, while helping us to retain the current crop of referees.”
New Zealand referee Chris Pollock said: “If wearing pink means we can encourage more people to be involved in refereeing at all levels of the game, and that more people recognise that refereeing can be great fun, then I’m all for it.”
February 12th, 2013 at 02:49 SAST
I posted this just because of the comments, i found it so funny. It just had to come.
“Now at least all 16 of the bulls will wear the same colors”
“Those dumb pink bulls will keep passing the ref the ball……..”
February 12th, 2013 at 02:50 SAST
Some support here please
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February 12th, 2013 at 08:00 SAST
superBul wrote:
Hahaha!! Hulle is lekkerrr suurgat! Hulle kan maar sê net wat hulle wil…
February 12th, 2013 at 08:17 SAST
Look the Bulls know how get attention, they just sometimes make their own supporters also de moer in.
Blue Bulls Karaoke
This is too ridiculous not to post… The New Zealand Referee’s will be wearing pink this year so the Blue Bulls had to up their game!
The reason why the Bulls went to singing according to this dude.
At least we are not as boring as the Stormers game plan.
February 12th, 2013 at 08:32 SAST
@ superBul: The k*k pink jerseys made me very “die moer in”! But I like the song, just watching the video you can see that there is great team spirit, especially when Spies tries very hard to sing…
February 12th, 2013 at 08:40 SAST
How Sweet!!!
Like a bunch of chewed up toffees!!!!!!!!
February 12th, 2013 at 21:14 SAST
This is just great. Now we have Kimberly the Pink Power Ranger running around on the rugby field as well.