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Definitely Nigel Owens last year!

I believe there was the required transmitter at all grounds for 1 season many years ago. It was discontinued. I believe the Sports Ears could be used at the GF at Concord for all 4 games either last year or the year before or both.

I am pretty sure that the Sport Ears do not work at most club grounds despite the refs being miked up. There needs to be a special transmitter at the ground for the "Ears" to work. Boyo, is your experience that they work at Uni No 1?

Wasn't he the Super Rugby player of the year?

The requirement is that you are appropriately graded within the referee rankings. Age is not considered.

http://www.nswrugby.com.au/NSWRugby/ShuteShield/DrawsResultsLadders.aspx Click on Ladder for the relevant grade

For these marginal situations, I think it would be better to play on rather than play advantage. The only potential problem is that if the side who engaged marginally later feels that they need to adjust at the next scrum, then this will likely become a problem that the referee has to resolve...

Coach, I think playing advantage is quite impractical in this situation. Firstly, if the feeding team engages early then the non-feeding team is almost never going to get an advantage given that they are unlikely to win the ball since they are not putting the ball in and they lost the hit as...

Their first grade coach was Scott Johnson and their successful year was 1999 where I believe they won 10 games that season. Fab was also involved with the coaching set-up. I think the other lock's name was something like Gordon McQueen.

SDW, check this out on the ARU website http://www.rugby.com.au/tryrugby/refereeing/qualification.aspx you would be welcome and you have 6 months until the start of the next season to lose some of the weight and then running around each weekend with the whistle will help you lose the rest...

No, not from the referee himself. I take your point that there are too many marginal calls. In terms of timing, the speed is determined by the readiness of the players to proceed. After several years, players should have adjusted to waiting for the referee's call rather than trying to...

Experts like international front rowers and scrum coaches might give you the same answer as this.

Rob, the current approach to early engagements is to take puntitive action (free kick or escalate to penalty). Managing the situation is not an option. Therefore if the players infringe at the first scrum, there will be a free kick. For mine, I would ask why the players infringe at the first...

Didn't Genia do the same thing?

HJ appears to be ambidextrous to me. The fascinating thing for mine is that he takes place kicks and drop kicks with his right and punts with his left or at least they appear to be his preferences. As a result, I am not sure that his left foot punt can be described as his non-dominant when it...

Are there different rules for George Smith - surely he has to play his club footy in Canberra?

I can't agree that Mowen vs Read and Mogg vs Dagg are close. If Higginbotham and Beale were fit, there is a reasonable chance that neither Mowen or Mogg would make our starting XV. The respective Kiwis are world class.

Some of these guys are over 30 or near to it. A few have played Super Rugby and never quite made it. Dyer is EPS with Rebels. Matwijow was in a Force training squad this year.

Kellaway played on the Wing for NSW 1s last year, so that probably didn't help his cause to be picked at fullback for Aust.

Isn't Fitzpatrick going to France?