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    Referee Rankings after the Pool Stages 

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    Robert Burns
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    Published on 02-10-11 02:10     Number of Views: 7215 
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    Well the ratings have been made and the table makes quite interesting reading.

    Paddy O'Brien and the rest of the iRB Referee team must be very pleased with themselves, although our tables ranks the referees, all have performed very well, and while someone has to come bottom, it's ...
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    George Clancy meets his fan club in Nelson 

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    Published on 01-10-11 06:10     Number of Views: 4026 
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    NELSON, 1 Oct. - Rugby referees are more accustomed to receiving criticism than support so World Cup referee George Clancy was taken aback when a small school in Motueka sent him a postcard ...
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    Paddy O'Brien 

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    Published on 01-10-11 01:10     Number of Views: 3320 
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    I today had the honour of meeting Paddy O'Brien, the IRB Referee Manager and talk to him a little bit about the world cup, referees and life in general.

    I'm sure Paddy was cautious as he doesn't know me ...
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    How to improve the RWC Format 

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    Published on 28-09-11 23:09     Number of Views: 5482 
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    A lot of talk has been going on about the format of the Rugby World Cup, and the disadvantages it's format and structure has to both tier one and tier two nations.

    1) New Zealand Rugby has this week stated about how much revenue they lose in a RWC year, and because
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    RWC Referee Stats & Trends 2 

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    Published on 27-09-11 07:09     Number of Views: 4637 
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    Well here are they updated stats.





    So what does it tell us this week?

    Penalties
    Most likely to penalise you at a tackle: Allain Rolland
    Most Likely to pick you up for Offside: Steve Walsh
    Most Likely to penalise the scrum: Wayne Barnes & Bryce Lawrence
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    Is it uncontested

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    Real life scenario from two weeks ago We are in the last ten minutes of a tense game Red are winning by three points. Red have previously made a number of interchanges already, including front row, but we are still contested . Blue are mounting a sustained attack in Reds 22 I YC a Red...

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    Munster V Southern Kings Interesting stat

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    Munster Southern Kings 0 15 Penalties 0 1 Free Kicks Really?

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    didds

    Making the game safer

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    Reasoinable. BUt I suggest you go away and read up on the SA v NZ series circa 1998 or so (? not sure of the year). basically both sides had an alarming number of injuries as the second halves of each test went on, and the team doctors (IRB doctor?) Okd them all as injuroies ... ...

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