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In this article, the first in a series which depict referees who have made great contributions to rugby, we acknowledge John F Miner of Newcastle, NSW.

In 1950 John Miner began a career in rugby which continues to this day. For 61 years he has been completely involved with the service of rugby & assisting rugby players.

In 1950 he began refereeing in Newcastle. By 1954 he had reached First Grade standard and began controlling senior representative fixtures.

From 1954 to 1967, he controlled in excess ...

The Referee Web Awards are underway at RugbyRefs.com and all members are eligible to vote for any website that is not their own society.

So make sure you get your vote in and ...

It has been revealed on SAReferees.co.za that their Varsity Cup competition has this season been given dispensation from the iRB to trial a new points scoring system.

The article from SAReferees.co.za can be found here: Varsity Cup's ...

When will players learn?

For some referees Alain Rolland has done more to promote the un-acceptance of the tip/spear tackle within our game than what the iRB has managed to do in 4 years of memo writing.

In this weeks ...

In a recent article on PlanetRugby Bryce Lawrence has stated that he may not referee games in South Africa.





the article is reproduced below:

http://planetrugby.com/story/0,25883...310868,00.html ...

The Super Rugby Referees for 2012 have been named with both New Zealand and South Africa having seven Referees across the two panels while Australia only have four, with only one, Steve Walsh, making the Merit Panel.

The Merit Panel is made up of what SANZAR ...

The Dynamics of a Tip Tackle

With the recent sending off of a player in a high profile Rugby World Cup play-off match, the Dangerous Tip Tackle has become a focus of much of the rugby public, and the seemingly heretofore unknown "Spear Tackle Memorandum" has received its greatest public airing since it was first promulgated by the IRB in June 2009.

If you look through ALL of these better known examples of sanctioned tip tackles, in every case, you can clearly identify each of what I call the five "tells" of a tip-tackle.

The tackler
► Comes to a stop
► Grasps the ball carrier below the hips
► Lifts him straight upwards ...