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http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,3822_6135130,00.html Wayne Barnes has been appointed to referee the cup final between Toulouse and Biarritz on 22 May with Dave Pearson and Chris White running the line, whilst Alain Rolland will referee the challenge cup final between Toulon and...

iRB released names of referees on it elite panels as well as the summer tests and junior world championship appointments. Keith Brown, Jerome Garces, Chris Pollock and Andrew Small have been promoted to the elite list whilst Chris White has stepped down. Full appts here...

It appears the Australian Rugby Union has lodged a formal complaint with the IRB over the public comments Paddy O'Brien made about Stu Dickinson. http://www.rugby365.com/laws_referees/home/2065500.htm Excerpt below: "The International Rugby Board's refereeing boss, New Zealander Paddy O'Brien...

Retrieved from: wwww.rugby365.com The International Rugby Board has announced its new panels of referees - 17 of them at the top, a development panel, a panel of specialised assistant referees and TMOs. The IRB International Referee Panel in 2009 is: Wayne Barnes (England), Christophe Berdos...

From rugbyreferee.co.nz (http://rugbyreferee.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/rejected-nz-rugby-ref-considers-japan-move/) Controversial referee Steve Walsh is planning to relaunch his career in Japan. Walsh was left off the New Zealand Rugby Union’s initial Super 14 panel because of “personal...

Steve Walsh who was injured during the Air NZ cup semi final 2 weeks ago has withdrawn from his appointments. He injured his Achilles Tendon in Wellington on the 18th October and has failed to recover. Jonathan Kaplan of South Africa will referee France vs Argentina tomorrow night with Walsh as...

Taken from the HK Refs website. The list of appointments includes appointments to the Rugby World Cup Sevens in March in Dubai. The referees are: Taizo Hirabayashi (Japan), David Keane (Ireland), Simon McDowell (Ireland) Neil Paterson (Scotland), Andrew McMenemy (Scotland), James Jones...

The IRB has announced the Appts for November tests. Taken from HK Refs website. The appointments for November: 1 November Australia vs New Zealand at Hong Kong Stadium, Hong Kong Referee: Alan Lewis (Ireland) Touch judges: George Clancy (Ireland), Peter Fitzgibbon (Ireland) Television match...

11 July 2008 NZRU farewells Paul Honiss The New Zealand Rugby Union today paid tribute to referee Paul Honiss, who has announced his retirement from all refereeing after a professional career that has spanned 11 years. 45-year-old Honiss made history in 2007 when he became world rugby’s...

The IRB Referee/TJ/TMO Panel has been updated for 2008. See here for details: http://www.hkrefs.com/Pages/match_officials_panel_2008.htm or http://www.sareferees.co.za/sarefs/appointments/762899.htm Interesting to see the re-introduction of Mark Lawrence (South Africa) and the addition of...

I had a situation yesterday whereby a blue maul went into in-goal and then went down to the floor. It was messy but I could see the ball was not grounded, but had hands/bits of body underneath it and so I blew up and awarded a scrum 5m out. My question is would I go with Law 17.6(b) which would...

When I set scrums, I almost always insist that the scrum is square and stationary (Law 20.1k). However, how can you tell if one side is stationary but one side puts up no resistance and thus the scrum moves off the mark and I penalise the no resistance side for pushing off the mark -even though...

The IRB has released the names of the 2008 Six Nations match officials. Taken from: http://planetrugby.com/Story/0,18259,3943_2790775,00.html The appointments: 2 February Ireland vs Italy at Croke Park Referee: Chris White (England) Touch judges: Wayne Barnes (England), Peter Allan...

So...with the quarter final referees announced - naturally we look to see who's likely to be appointed to the final 4 games. Here is quite an interesting article about selection for the final and who's likely to get the nod...here's the link...

I reffed a match last weekend in which I awarded a penalty for not realeasing the ball on the ground. Since black (the oppo) weren't back ten, I advanced the penalty 10 metres. White took it quickly again and scored a try off that penalty. The opposition (black) coach came up to me and told me...