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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_heineken" data-source="post: 706930" data-attributes="member: 40658"><p>Well, you have to look at it in context. In SA, we have one Sport-station, Supersport, which broadcasts all rugby games in SA and anywhere else in the world to the SA public. We have 2 rugby talk shows, an Afrikaans (Super-Rugby) and an English (Boots and All). Both of them have a panel of 3 or 4 former players. and they frequently do have referees to assist in analysis. For the Afrikaans show, they have Tappe Henning, who is the current SA Referees Mentor, and then for the English show they get Andre Watson.</p><p></p><p>Also, Jonathan Kaplan has his own website, where he give feedback on referee decision made the previous week. It's not that the boradcaster doesn't want him, it's that they already had people for that role, and they have been there before his retirement. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>He gives the reason why he says that. <em> "For me the biggest problem is coaching of the bigger group. They don't have a coach at IRB level. They need one to tie up all the loose ends. On a regular and consistent basis. It's a massive issue, and the present system lends itself towards individualism and rampant inconsistency"</em></p><p></p><p>Surely the recent performances by Jerome Garces and Romain Poite are evident of that.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes das, the Touch judges are still used even with the 2 refs on the field. they still patrol the offside lines, and off-the-ball stuff. The 2 refs-system will be reintroduced this year in the Varsity Cup in SA, and I trust it will bring even better results that the inaugural season in which it was used.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_heineken, post: 706930, member: 40658"] Well, you have to look at it in context. In SA, we have one Sport-station, Supersport, which broadcasts all rugby games in SA and anywhere else in the world to the SA public. We have 2 rugby talk shows, an Afrikaans (Super-Rugby) and an English (Boots and All). Both of them have a panel of 3 or 4 former players. and they frequently do have referees to assist in analysis. For the Afrikaans show, they have Tappe Henning, who is the current SA Referees Mentor, and then for the English show they get Andre Watson. Also, Jonathan Kaplan has his own website, where he give feedback on referee decision made the previous week. It's not that the boradcaster doesn't want him, it's that they already had people for that role, and they have been there before his retirement. He gives the reason why he says that. [I] "For me the biggest problem is coaching of the bigger group. They don't have a coach at IRB level. They need one to tie up all the loose ends. On a regular and consistent basis. It's a massive issue, and the present system lends itself towards individualism and rampant inconsistency"[/I] Surely the recent performances by Jerome Garces and Romain Poite are evident of that. Yes das, the Touch judges are still used even with the 2 refs on the field. they still patrol the offside lines, and off-the-ball stuff. The 2 refs-system will be reintroduced this year in the Varsity Cup in SA, and I trust it will bring even better results that the inaugural season in which it was used. [/QUOTE]
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