Have a word Donal!

[Taff]

Originally Posted by Donal1988

... On several occasions where meetings are very very slow (as they can be when you meet weekly) its handy to have Fitzy and him at the meetings to ask about their various games.

You have weekly meetings?

Originally Posted by dave_clark

don't they have one "proper" AR and one spare referee just in case anything untoward happens to the big cheese in the middle?

Originally Posted by TheBFG

think that's the 4th Officals role?????

One of the refs at a recent ANZ cup match (Bryce Lawrence IIRC) pulled a groin muscle and hobbled off in pain. I'm pretty certain it was the AR (TJ) who stepped in.

[OB..]

Originally Posted by TheBFG

Anyway as i've said, should refs be given these appointments?

South Africa has three panels: referees, ARs, and TMOs. The IRB does the same at the RWC, except that all the ARs are also IRB referees.

[OB..]

Originally Posted by TheBFG

The ball appeared to land on the line (as all the commentators said -

Apparently all except Ian Robertson on the radio.

[The umpire]

Yeah, but you can't see on the radio

[Emmet Murphy]

Have to say it looked to me as though the ball hit the line when it landed.

[Aphrodite007]

There are now six or seven specialist TJs which the IRB use.