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"Sonia, why did you persist, after getting a perfectly acceptable answer, in asking a question which, if answered the way you clearly wanted it to be, would have resulted in disciplinary action?"
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My point, largely made for me.

Try reading skills.

It was the AWJ interview that was particularly stupid. The EJ and OF interviews were just hackers, trying to get a reaction.

Shes fair game. If Henley can get heaps for...

Let's separate out the allegations about her trolling from just being bad at her job.

I have never, in all my years of watching sport, heard a reporter ask a captain if he ever thought of going to...

"Sonja, that was shit interview" - perfectly acceptable, for it was a statement of fact*

"Sonja, that was a shit interview and a woman has no place discussing men's rugby" - very far over the...

Clive Norling. ITV. One of the World Cups.

Barnes was exemplary.


Yup. Paddy OBrien has retired

Why?
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This is one of those situations where the process worked, to (probably) the wrong outcome.

PG said on-filed decision was a try.
For the TMO to nix that, he has to see something clear and obvious....

Mmmm, not so sure. We're happy for trainers to come on while play ia active. If the restart is not proximate to them, why would delay for them?

In a word: no.

It was the players who didn't like it. Unlike rugby, they can't move the ball back through the mark. When a FK was awarded in a perfectly good area for a shot at goal direct from the free, canny...

Nigel is at risk of becoming the Welsh Kaplan

Watching it live, my immediate reaction to the first try is that England were expecting a shot at goal, which was as large a contributory factor to the score as anything.

The second one - if I...

Given what he has gotten away with, I would be absolutely OK with that approach. Snidey wee ****.

Being new to the local community, I had been introduced to the players as being new.

Which they interpreted as being new t refereeing. So my first couple of matches were filled with players trying...

Recruiting in groups- we found yunger refs who came together in a group helped them stick. One younger ref in a larger older community may find it easier to quit.

Get wise to the social media...

My travel right now, to all my matches, is about 7 minutes, or one Blue Oyster Cult song, or 3 Damned songs.

I suspect the difference is the point of attack.
AFAIU, a driving maul is heading roughly due north.
A rolling maul moves the point of attack from side to side - which requires a little more...

Tim, was there a time that you pressed the wrong button on your watch?

It was the Hampshire Bowl final, and the field was about 50 yds from the clubhouse.
We were about ready to go and the referee announced he had to have a pee before kick off.

Fair enough.

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As an AR, I once lost the referee prior to kick off.

I ran line - at very late notice, borrowed kit etc - in a National Club 1/4 final.
Ref dropped his cards, and didn’t notice.
He had already issued his final warning to Red.
I ran on to collect...

Turned up at Winchester in No1s, for those were the days that shirt, tie, blazer and pressed trousers were expected.

plenty of time, so grab a cuppa and decide to unpack the kitbag. Run back to...

“Skip, I let that go because there was no defender. Next time, if there is one, that’s a penalty. Are we clear on how I’m handling that?”