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The iRB has now formally issued the panel list on it's website and it in now clear that a number of key referees have been omitted.

The mystery of whether or not the appointments issued constituted a new Panel, or just a list of appointments ...

The iRB has today announced a restructure that has Paddy O'Brien, the iRB Referees' Manager moved from his position to head up the 7's game.

The report says that Paddy wanted a fresh challenge, this may be true, or ...

As we saw in this weekend's match between England & Wales being a TMO can be a very difficult job.

Lets look at England's last gasp try that was ruled as held up by the TMO, and decide if it was right or not.

First ...

The France v Ireland game was called off moments before the scheduled last night due to the pitch being frozen.

The referee, Dave Pearson of England, has received quite bad press about the late call off, but I believe unfairly so.

The ...

This is a quick reminder to all referees to ensure they carry out their stud checks before a game.

The picture attached is reproduced here with permission from our friends in the Western Province of South Africa ...

All the Welsh must have had their hearts in their mouth, 65 minutes into a cracking game of rugby and Bradley Davies not only performs a tip tackle much worse than that of his captain at the world cup, but off the ball too, he was reacting to a shoulder charge on Adam Jones by Donnacha Ryan.

Thanks to Alain Rolland's ...

The reasons people plateau will vary; some may not even realize they never had "it", thought they did, and kept spinning their wheels in L5 forever, only to be finally "dropped" not b/c they've gotten worse, but b/c they're 35 and there's a 25 year old ...

The main Referee Web Awards Voting is over, our members looked at websites and judged on looks, content, Referee usefulness and Public Relations ability, as well as other things. To be eligible the website must be:-

• Based on it's own site (i.e. not part of a unions site, RugbyFirst & RugbyNet are acceptable as they can be customised to be their own site).
• It must be free for referees to use.
• It must be predominantly for referees (applies to non society/association sites).

The top website from each country (unless a country has less than two websites) also get that countries Website of the year, and a public vote to be commenced ...