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Chris Busby

With no reference to the game in question:
This is a big shame. Rugby can't afford to lose young referees like this. Right or wrong, a referee must be immune from attacks. If a "club"feels they have been the "victim" of poor or biassed refereeing there are chanels, especially in the pro game from that to be properly examined.

Once done fairly. The official can be "retrained" / disciplined or it there is 2no case to answer. The club can be informed wih the reasoning why. Instead we have the Accusor carrying in his lucrative career and now a British Lion while th referee feels unwlecome / unsupported. Can't be right.
 
Decorily said:
Entirely agree but I think this action by Busby is childish.
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Or is dramatic hyperbole the only way it would break through the news cycle?

If I put my rose-tinted glasses to one side, (Cynical? Moi?) isn’t this almost a natural progression as, more and more, the elite game becomes the be-all and end-all in the chase for “accelerated and sustainable commercial growth”? (A quote I lifted from the WR Chairman’s message in 2022 but I’m sure that going forward you could reach out and spot synergies across all their releases and minutes).

WR happily states it “listens to its key stakeholders”. Listens, maybe? Yet increasingly only seems to *act* on the inputs from elite coaches and team owners.

The Unions aren’t any better (though some are far better run than others [side-eye to USAR]…)

Sometimes being down in the lower levels of the game, cow pastures and all, has the advantage of being away from all this BS.

Anyway, in the collaborative one-rugby-family-together spirit, and being asked to “bring solutions, not problems”, I’ve engaged in some corporate verbal Onanism and drafted a reply for the IRFU…

In alignment with our ongoing commitment to stakeholder-centric officiating excellence, the IRFU is proactively leveraging learnings from recent high-profile transitions within our match official cohort to optimise the integrity and resilience of our refereeing pathways.

As we strategically future-proof the officiating ecosystem in the wake of legacy departures, we remain focused on embedding robust support frameworks and agile feedback mechanisms to ensure seamless knowledge transfer and sustained high-performance delivery across all touchpoints…
 
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Or is dramatic hyperbole the only way it would break through the news cycle?

If I put my rose-tinted glasses to one side, (Cynical? Moi?) isn’t this almost a natural progression as, more and more, the elite game becomes the be-all and end-all in the chase for “accelerated and sustainable commercial growth”? (A quote I lifted from the WR Chairman’s message in 2022 but I’m sure that going forward you could reach out and spot synergies across all their releases and minutes).

WR happily states it “listens to its key stakeholders”. Listens, maybe? Yet increasingly only seems to *act* on the inputs from elite coaches and team owners.

The Unions aren’t any better (though some are far better run than others [side-eye to USAR]…)

Sometimes being down in the lower levels of the game, cow pastures and all, has the advantage of being away from all this BS.

Anyway, in the collaborative one-rugby-family-together spirit, and being asked to “bring solutions, not problems”, I’ve engaged in some corporate verbal Onanism and drafted a reply for the IRFU…

In alignment with our ongoing commitment to stakeholder-centric officiating excellence, the IRFU is proactively leveraging learnings from recent high-profile transitions within our match official cohort to optimise the integrity and resilience of our refereeing pathways.

As we strategically future-proof the officiating ecosystem in the wake of legacy departures, we remain focused on embedding robust support frameworks and agile feedback mechanisms to ensure seamless knowledge transfer and sustained high-performance delivery across all touchpoints…
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Yup that's fluent bollocks will pass the high level demands for obfuscation of any self licking lollipop committee.(y)

Perhaps a review of either the Standards and Values (which used to be easy to find but may now have been disappeared) or the Ethical Code might assist?
 
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