Referees
Tappe Henning seems to be on his way to Edinbrugh to take over Scottish refereeing.
A three year contract was signed on Monday, for Henning to become the Scottish Referee Commissioner.
Irish referee Alain Rolland has withdrawn from Saturday’s Rugby Championship Test between the Wallabies and Springboks in Brisbane due to injury and has been replaced by compatriot George Clancy.
Bay of Plenty lock Culum Retallick has been suspended from rugby for two weeks, following a judicial hearing on a charge of foul play from his team’s NPC match against Hawke’s Bay last weekend.
South African referee Craig Joubert has been confirmed as the man to take charge of the Super Rugby final between the Chiefs and Brumbies in Hamilton this coming Saturday.
SANZAR have warned coaches that taking unnecessary pot-shots at referees could land them in hot water.
New Zealand referee Chris Pollock has been axed from the Super Rugby play-offs, because of poor form.
SANZAR has announced the names of the match officials for Round 20 of Super Rugby 2013. Glen Jackson starts off the weekend on Friday in the match between the Crusaders and Hurricanes.
South Africa’s Craig Joubert, who was in charge of the Rugby World Cup 2011 Final, will referee the first Test under the scrum engagement trial sequence when he takes charge of the Castle Lager Rugby Championship match between Australia and New Zealand in Sydney on 17 August.
The International Rugby Board on Wednesday announced the names of the 12 referees for The Castle Rugby Championship. These appointments were made by the IRB Match Official Selection Committee following a detailed review of recent performances during the June Tests.
SANZAR has released the names of the match officials forRound 19 of Super Rugby 2013.
Jonathon White is in charge of Friday’s match between the Chiefs and Crusaders, and what an important clash that will be!
There are 5 matches this weekend, with the Australian sides still sitting out due to the British & Irish Lions series in Australia, but the good news is that at conclusion of this weekend, the Combined Log will no longer be skewed and will reflect the correct position between all 15 sides, finally!
Friday has 1 match and Saturday has 4 matches.
This is going to be a very short article. Maybe it will be removed, but do we really talk RUGBY or are we just moaning, bitching, complaining about things that went wrong for OUR teams.
I want us to talk about the deeper things in the game we love. Laws, interpretations, bad coaching, player stupidity.
Let’s try and have a free for all on this article.
SANZAR has announced the names of the match officials for Round 18 of Super Rugby 2013, with Garratt Williamson starting off the action on Friday.
This weekend we only have 5 Super Rugby matches, seeing as the Australian sides do not play this weekend due to the British & Irish Lions tour in Australia. This is the first of 2 weekends in a row where South Africa and New Zealand catch up on the 2 extra weekends where only Australian sides played in the tournament.
There is 1 match on Friday and 4 matches on Saturday.
SANZAR has announced the names of the match officials for Round 17 of Super Rugby 2013, with Rohan Hoffmann in charge of Friday’s match and Angus Gardner is in charge of Sunday’s match.
There are just 2 Super Rugby matches this weekend, with only Australian teams playing and with the Reds having a bye weekend.
SANZAR has released the names of the match officials for Round 16 of Super Rugby 2013. Glen Jackson once again starts the action between the Crusaders and Waratahs on Friday.
This weekend sees 6 matches, with 2 on Friday and 4 on Saturday.
Well there are a lot of surprises in the mid-year appointments this year, and I’m not sure how much can be read into them.
Bulls wing Bjorn Basson has been cited for a dangerous tackle during Saturday’s 18-16 win over the Sharks at Kings Park.
Former All Blacks coach Graham Henry escaped serious punishment for criticising Super Rugby officials after pleading guilty to a misconduct charge.
SANZAR has released the names of the match officials for Round 15 of Super Rugby 2013. Steve Walsh starts the action between the Chiefs and Crusaders on Friday after Chris Pollock was originally named to be in charge of the match at Waikato Stadium but a minor leg injury has ruled him out, Walsh coming in as replacement.
We have 7 matches this weekend, 2 on Friday and 5 on Saturday.
World Cup-winning coach Graham Henry has heavily criticised the influence of the assistant match officials following the Blues’ 23-3 Super Rugby loss to the Crusaders at the weekend.
The long history of South African teams being done in by the incompetence and, let’s be honest, the one-eyed approach of Australasian match officials took another turn for the worse on Friday as the DHL Stormers were beaten 30-21 by the Rebels in a Vodacom Super Rugby match in Melbourne.
SANZAR has released the names of the match officials for Round 14 of Super Rugby 2013. Lourens van der Merwe is tasked to start off this weekend’s action in Wellington, New Zealand on Friday.
This weekend sees 7 matches, 3 on Friday and 4 on Saturday.
We bring you the first of a four part series focusing on specific game measures for Super Rugby, that is, how scrums, tackles, work on areas and the referee team have been tracking so far in 2013 Super Rugby, today we bring you the scrum.
SANZAR has release the names of the match officials for Round 13 of Super Rugby 2013. Glen Jackson will be in charge of the Reds and The Sharks match on Friday.
This weekend has 6 matches, 3 on Friday and 3 on Saturday.
SANZAR has release the names of the match officials for Round 12 of Super Rugby 2013. Chris Pollock starts the weekend’s action between the Blues and Stormers on Friday.
This weekend has 7 matches, 2 on Friday, 4 on Saturday and 1 on Sunday.
SANZAR have released the names of the Match officials for Round 11 of Super Rugby 2013. Steve Walsh starts the weekend’s action with the game between the Hurricanes and Stormers, on Friday.
SANZAR have released the names of the officials for Round 10 of Super Rugby 2013. Glen Jackson, the ex-player turned referee which has impressed all and sundry gets the big Australian derby between the Reds and the Brumbies.
There are only 6 matches this weekend, 2 on Friday and 4 on Saturday.
SANZAR have released the Match officials for Round 7 of Super Rugby 2013, with Jaco Peyper starting the weekend action.
The International Rugby Board has named the match officials for the 2013 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia in June.
SANZAR have released the Match officials for the 4th Round of Super Rugby 2013 and Garratt Williamson finishes the weekend action on Sunday.
This weekend has seven Matches with 2 on Friday, 3 on Saturday and 1 on Sunday.
There were several decisions this last weekend which are worth debating. One of them was the try scored by Chiliboy Ralepelle of the Bulls, a try which took the home team to 25-10 with 13 minutes to play.
Emerging Test referee Lourens van der Merwe will make history when he officiates in the first Vodacom Super Rugby match involving the Southern Kings in Port Elizabeth next Saturday.
Record-breaking South African test referee Jonathan Kaplan will retire from professional refereeing at the end of the 2013 South African season.
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®.
Referees will now be able to ask Television Match Official (TMO) to review up to two phases prior to the ball being grounded as part of a new worldwide TMO Protocol trial announced by the International Rugby Board (IRB).
The IRB and its Member Unions have underscored their ongoing commitment to consistent and accurate match officiating by approving a global trial to extend the powers of the television match official (TMO).
SANZAR announced their 18 referees for the 2013 Super Rugby season, the group of referees includes 5 new as well as the Argentinean Francisco Pastrana (who controlled his first Super Rugby match in 2012).
Leading South African referee Marius Jonker has announced his retirement from international match officiating, although he will continue to referee in South Africa’s domestic competitions.
I suspect that more important offenses are missed in rugby than any other sport. But don’t blame the refs – or not too much, wouldn’t want to spoil all the fun. The problem is so many things are happening at the same time on and off the ball, it is almost impossible for one man to pick up.