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Joking aside, refs need to be tough men of the law

COLIN BOAG

Romain Poite made the headlines with his cracking one-liner, ‘I’m a referee, not a coach’, but the plain fact is that our referees are doing far too much coaching, and not enough refereeing.
You see it in virtually every match: a player edges offside at a ruck, and the ref warns him to go back. The player then retreats, but the damage has been done as his actions earn his side a tiny advantage by virtue of slowing things down. At a maul it’s similar, and you’ll hear the ref warning players to leave and rejoin. If a kick goes up, you’ll hear t...

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