Rugby Referee New Zealand

Hi Mark,

I am Chilean referee, and some time I have the urge to go to New Zealand to referer and learn english, but I wonder if you have some contacts in the union, and to begin to make efforts.

I hope your answer,

greetings,

Francisco Hurtado

hi Mark, how are you?, I’m coming from the seven beach Bahia Inglesa, you have my email address?, and also need you email to send the email with the details.

I hope your answer,

greetings,

Francisco Hurtado

In response to gavins question about New Zealand rugby. There are two things that you need to consider. The first is like the players referees do make mistakes! When the All Blacks didnt take the drop goal against france no one question if that was match fixing! The second is that this is the first year that referees have not been unable to ref a game involving there own country so therefore that agrueement is quite hard to really consider that New Zealand teams are favoured by their own referees. In terms of the referees being incompetent thast a big call from someone who is not a referee.

hi,
the standard of nz ref’ing is diabolical. having lawrence as #1 is an embarrasment thou he is marginally better than kangaroo dickinson. pollock, who i previously thought was ok buried that beyond recognition with his performance as tmo in crusader vs blues game. incorrect decisions at normal speed provide some allowance, thou with the courtesy of “many hindsights” a tmo has provides no allowance, especially when there is no consistency, as highlighted even by villlage idiot stu wilson.

I just wanted to say that Chris Pollock made a mockery of the TMO system in the Blues v Crusaders match. His consistency was flawed as he awarded a try to the Blues and denied one to the Crusaders under the same set of circumstances. I think I speak for many when I say that officials must be consistent in their decisions and not let team bias cloud their judgements.

Further to this, Bryce Lawrence needed to take more control of this event and also have more guts to think on his feet. He doubted the TMO yet still followed his judgement in the first instance. This was somewhat questionable, but all well and good. However, when an identical situation presented itself in the oppositions favour, he immediately agreed with the TMO. I am unsure of Bryce’s neutrality, but am sure that he must develop some more courage of conviction.

Only then will we see a fairer game for all.

The lions test against south africa, must of been one the most poor preforming referee standards i have seen in a while. the french referee needs to go an learn english to an acceptable standard. Every time he spoke to a player after awarding a penalty he said you not what im talking about an thats it. As for Mr lawrence im sure if he had his time over again he would of recommended a red card. He should admit he got it wrong at least yellow was no good, also he may have got himself too involved in the game questioning the TMO decison when he not the man in the middle.
Lets hope the next crop of refs stay out of the papers

Are All the NZ refs paid to help Canterbury win at all costs or just someof them? It is so obvious that they are bias towrds Canterbury, for example in tonights game v Hawkes Bay that was a definite try at the end what the hell is wrong with those three Refs? If they had doubt why not look at the big screen? this is a weekly occurence and eventually all NZ rugby fans will turn to the NRL like I have. It is about time the Rugby Union was not controlled by Canterbury i.e Steve Tew , Hobbs,Henry,Wayne Smith,Steve Hanson etc all Canterbarians