The One About Grassroots Referees

House of Rugby

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🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

A week after Nigel Owens was on, we drop down a few leagues as Alex is joined by level 6 referee and vice-president of the Oxfordshire Referees Society, Rob Cross to talk about some of the challenges surrounding officiating at the grassroots level. From decreasing numbers, to levels of refereeing, pathways to becoming the next Wayne Barnes, problems from the touchlines and how the game might look in a decade.

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0:00.0	Drudge, bind, set, beat.
0:04.8	Joe presents The House of Rugby, together with Guinness.
0:08.5	Hello, everybody.
0:09.4	Welcome to another edition of House of Rugby Shoals,
0:12.0	brought you by Joe to get a lot of rager friends.
0:13.9	Guinness, hope you're all well.
0:15.5	Edging towards life, perhaps getting back to normal
0:18.3	a little bit.
0:18.8	And it's hopefully not too far away
0:20.8	that we might get some sport back on our screens
0:22.6	and back into our lives.
0:24.0	And a chance today to have a chat with a man
0:25.9	who is part of what makes sport happen.
0:29.3	It's a great pleasure to welcome Rob Cross to House of Rugby
0:32.5	Shoals.
0:33.3	Those of you who have seen these episodes before
0:35.2	will know it's a little bit shorter, a little bit sharper,
0:37.4	a little bit quieter without hascontinues,
0:39.0	just to share some of our great chat with people around the game
0:42.4	and to pick their brains, get their thoughts,
0:44.8	and find out the light of the land.
0:46.4	So just introduce Rob before we do anything else,
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