GAGR Rugby Referee Scouting Reports and Official IRB Database

[Dismal Pillock]

Surely we can funnel our accumulated exasperation and confusion with these ******* refs and cobble together a rugby referee database detailing each individual referees strengths/weaknesses

Please feel free to add your (probably wildly varying) opinions into this easy-to-follow template in regards to what you perceive to be each individual referees strengths/weaknesses

Ref Name:
Strengths:
Weaknesses:

as far as I can make out the current Soup refs are

Nic Berry
Damon Murphy
James Doleman
Ben O’Keeffe
Angus Gardner
Paul Williams
Jordan Way

Needless to say @Derpus is barred from this thread.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

 

[Yabby]

I see your template and just like J.Doleman esq. with relation to ruck laws, I choose to ignore it.
Instead behold the alignment of super rugga refs:
Chaotic good: Nic Berry. The game will be fun to watch even when things are up in the air.
Neutral good: Jordan Way. I have never noticed this guys existence. In a referee this is a good thing.
Lawful good: Angus Gardner. I feel myself getting marched 10 when yelling at the TV.
Chaotic neutral: Damon Murphy. The ultimate everyone gets wacky and silly penalties man.
Neutral neutral: It's a nice theory but the laws of the universe make it impossible for any referee to ever be truly neutral.
Lawful neutral: Paul Williams. Underappreciated and kinda forgettable like the cardboard boxes at bunnings you use to take all your stuff to the car with.
Chaotic evil: James Doleman. Write a rule each on a pack of cards, throw pack of cards in the air, pick up some and choose to be fastidious on these for this game only.
Neutral evil: Ben O'Keefe. You know he's right, you know your teams a bunch of ADHD meatheads who forget rules at key times but the penalty to lose the game still hurts.
Lawful evil: Andre Watson. Never forgive, never forget the 2002 grand final. Brumbies wuz robbed.

 

[Derpus]

I will not be silenced. Someone must speak out against the violent and degenerate crimes being committed against our beloved game each and every weekend.

 

[Derpus]

Seriously though. That failure to even call a penalty on the shoulder to JAS's head is ineptitude that should warrant further investigation given it actively endangers player safety.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Chaotic good: Nic Berry. The game will be fun to watch even when things are up in the air.

Ref Name: Nic Berry
Strengths: sharp, observant, relates well to players, not flustered, no ego/inferiority complex involved (unlike Dimwit Damo)
Weaknesses: ex-Reds player so always has that hanging over him

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Ref Name: Angus "Don't Say" Mabey
Strengths: has 2 eyes, can walk. That's it.
Weaknesses: a coward, petrified to take professional responsibilty for the match he has been entrusted to take charge of. ZERO authority with the players. They'll ignore him and have a filthy great punchup just cos they know they can