Coach strikes referee.

[smartcooky]

One of my main problems with this idiot is unfortunately people wont be saying oh did you see Joe Soandso barge that ref they will be saying did you see that rugby coach barge that ref.

This!

The casual observer won't care that this happened in South Africa; YouTube is universal like that, it brings this sort of stuff into your home.

Behaviour of this kind brings the whole game at all levels into disrepute... everywhere, not just in the Republic. This is why the punishment has to send a loud and clear message out to everyone that what this guy did was totally unacceptable.

We already see Wendyballers get away with acts of referee abuse that, if perpetrated in Rugby, would result in immediate red cards and lengthy suspensions in rugby. We do NOT want our game going the same way!

 

[Cave Dweller]

Here are some clips over the incidents

The Dr EG Jansen High School first team rugby coach who shouldered the referee after a match and swore at him has apologised, Beeld reported on Wednesday.


Schalk Snyman, the coach in question, said on Tuesday he was "very sad" about the incident with referee Mlungiseleli Mdashe, one of South Africa's top referees, after the match at Hoërskool Kempton Park in which Kempton Park beat Hoërskool Dr EG Jansen.

Snyman was quoted saying: "Everybody can see on the video what happened, and the context makes no difference, an offence stays an offence."

His future would be decided at a disciplinary hearing on Wednesday.

According to Jurie Coetzee, head of the Valke Rugby Union, and Leon de Beer, headmaster of Dr EG Jansen High School in Boksburg, Snyman had been provisionally banned from any involvement with the Valke and the school, pending the hearing's outcome.

Mdashe said he was considering "a very serious charge of assault, intimidation and undermining my authority". He said he might proceed with a civil case, depending on the outcome of the disciplinary hearing.

Mdashe said: "In the end, I want rugby to win. I hope the right decision will be taken."

Snyman attempted to contact Mdashe on Monday and Tuesday to apologise, but Mdashe, acting on the advice of his lawyers, refused to speak to him.

Sapa

Last Friday, there appeared in the Bulletin, a Tzaneen newspaper, news of the action to be taken by the Limpopo branch of the Blue Bulls Referees' Society in the event of abuse, even of the verbal kind. This decision of the Limpopo referees antedates the attack on the referee in Kempton Park on Saturday.

The chairman of Limpopo referees, Johan Venter, has warned that his referees had had enough of continual insults and threats during school matches. Venter has warned that if a referee is threatened or insulted he is to leave the match immediately, even if the match is in progress.

Last month a Blue Bulls referee was knocked unconscious buy a headbutt of a schoolboy played. That highlighted the problem and the verbal attack on a referee in Lephalale (Ellisras) on 8 May 23012 led to a meeting on the Monday came close to withdrawing referees from all schools matches in Limpopo.

Instead schools were to be warned that referees would not be made available for schools where misconduct of this nature occurred.

Senior Society referees said that it was shocking that it was mostly teacher-coaches who did not hesitate to have bad things to say about referees in front of schoolboys and even accuse them of dishonesty.

One ex-referee said that it was as if winning had become so overpowering at schools that aspects of education had been thrown overboard.

Venter said: "It is not for referees to prescribe to schools how they should manage the problem, but we will protect our referees and if coaches cannot maintain discipline, which includes self-discipline, we will withdraw and leave the schools to their own devices."

The schoolboy rugby player who knocked a referee unconscious with a head-butt has been banned from playing for 10 years of which seven years are suspended, leaving him with an effective suspension of three years.

This was a decision of the Blue Bulls Rugby Union's disciplinary committee at its meeting on Monday evening, 23 April 2012.

The player concerned is a 17-year-old matric pupil at Hoërskool Hans Strijdom in Mookgophong (Naboomspruit) in Limpopo Province. The match was between Hans Strijdom and Alberton.

The referee in question was Chris de Beer, an experienced first league referee of the Blue Bulls Referees' Society.

The match was apart of the annual Mauritz Hansen Rugby Week 2012, started in Naboomspruit in 1993 as the Hansie Week. The host school was Hoërskool Hans Strijdom.

during the match the referee had occasion to send off a Hans Strijdom prop for a head-butt. At the end of the match he walked to the Hans Strijdom players to check the number of the player sent off. (It was 17.) As he did so the lock with the number 4 stepped forward and head-butted the referee, knocking him out.

The referee recovered and actually refereed the final match of the tournament five hours later.

The referee laid a charge of assault at the police and, it seems, the player acknowledged guilt and paid a fine of R1 500. The rugby inquiry into the incident was taken over by the Blue Bull Rugby Union after the Blue Bulls Rugby Referees’ Society completed its inquiry and handed its findings to the Union for further investigation and action.

The player apparently pleased guilty and the president of the Blue Bulls Rugby Union, Louis Nel, said that the fact that this was the player's first such wrongdoing and that his mother was terminally ill were taken into account as mitigating circumstances.

Afterwards De Beer said that he was disappointed with the disciplinary committee's findings and was resigning from the Referees' Society. He said: "The punishment is ridiculous and will bring it about that referees will more frequently be exposed to this kind of violence."