All posts tagged "referees"

  • ACT Brumbies
    Monday’s Rugby News – 20/3/23

    Greetings, G&GRs, and welcome to another Monday News! Plenty of match-ups in Super Rugby this weekend, with...

  • Rugby
    Monday’s Rugby News – 30/01/23

    Greetings, G&GRs, and welcome to a short Monday News. With some background chatter (i.e., Keith is bored...

  • Laws
    Wednesday’s Rugby News – 21/12/22

    G’day folks! A quick update to let you know that the referees for the Guinness Six Nations...

  • Rugby
    Tuesday’s Rugby News – 6/12/22

    Greetings, G&GRs! Today’s article is from Moaning Expat – thanks, chum! Hoping for a few more pieces...

  • Wallabies
    Monday’s Rugby News – 21/11/22

    Hello, G&GRs, and welcome to another Monday! I trust that your weekend was well spent wherever in...

  • Rugby
    Monday’s Rugby News – 01/08/22

    Welcome, G&GRs, to a slightly delayed Monday News. I thought it best to wait for the results...

  • ACT Brumbies
    Monday’s Rugby News – 16/5/22

    Hello, G&GRs! Charlie Mackay is back! Apologies if this upsets you, Reg and Juswal. I’ve managed to...

  • Rugby
    Monday’s Rugby News – 13/2/22

    Welcome, G&GRs, to another week of rugby. Well, folks, the 6 Nations has certainly been a cracker...

  • All Blacks
    Monday’s Rugby News – 22/10/21

    Hello, G&GRs and welcome to Monday’s Rugby News – my last Monday news for 2021 (unless I...

  • Laws
    Monday’s Rugby News – 11/10/21

    Greeting, GAGRs, and happy Monday to you all! Not too much to discuss as there is a...

  • All Blacks
    Monday’s Rugby News – 04/10/21

    Welcome to Monday’s Rugby News, friends! Wowee, what a way to finish The Rugby Championship! The DDFs v Nearlies put on a game for the ages and certainly left me struggling to sleep afterwards. Our lads in G&G defeated Los Pumas relatively convincingly; however, there were still systemic problems in terms of...

  • Rugby
    The Tuesday Top 5

    World Record Breakers Not content with having such accolades as playing in the Top 14 Championship, the Heineken Cup, European Champions Cup, a Rugby Championship and a Rugby World Cup next to his name, Drew Mitchell decided he wanted to add the title “Guinness World Record Holder” to an already impressive list...

  • ACT Brumbies
    Scrum Calls: How Consistent Are Referees?

    I’m not a fan of the current scrum call sequence, particularly how slowly it’s being called in 2011. One of the common complaints about the calling sequence is that there is so much variation from scrum to scrum and from referee to referee. To see how accurate this complaint is I decided...

  • Rugby
    Video: Scrums – What’s The Difference?

    Here’s a video of eight scrums in the first four Wallaby tests this season.  One is different to the other seven – in fact this partcular scrum is different to every one of the 74 other scrums so far in the international season.  What’s the difference?  Watch the video and leave your comments. ...

  • Rugby
    Refereeing imbalance? Try Kaplan for size

    The public standing down of Super 14 referee Paul “Skid” Marks this week for “imbalance from a management perspective” seems to have marked a new official openness in discussing referee performance. If that’s the case, I’d like like to submit to the SANZAR panel a piece of evidence for long-term referee imbalance...