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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 ...

Today is RugbyRefs.com's 8th birthday.

The site was created on the 10th November 2003 after a request by Robert Burns to add forums to the London Society Website was turned down. ...

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 ...

Not just on winning the cup so sought after so hard for the last 24 years, but for staging an excellent Rugby World Cup.

This congratulations doesn't just go to the players, but to ...