All posts tagged "referees"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...