2008 referees

[LeagueNut]

Does anyone know who's in the NRL refereeing squad for 2008?

I vaguely remember a couple of them retiring last year .... Steve Clark and someone else??

I tried the NRL website but they're about as useful as tits on a bull. As of today (on http://www.nrl.com.au/Referees/tabid/290/Default.aspx) they're showing the full-time squad for 2006. :?

 

[Butters]

Pretty sure Paul Simpkins retired

 

[OVP]

Yep f**k and Simpleton have retired. Hallelujah !! The two worst are goooooooorrrrrrrnnnnn !!

I have heard Luke Phillips and some other ex-player (Perenara i think ??) are training to be refs ... but i dont know how far theyve progressed as yet.

 

[themanonthehill]

Tony Maksoud is out of retirement

 

[Walt Flanigan]

Kelvin Jeffes making a comeback? He must be 21 by now.

 

[innsaneink]

COME ON!!!

Will surely be only one or two more posts until those two magical words are typed.

 

[Raider_69]

I dont want to steal El Diablo's thunder here but surely the time has come for a glorious return of Mogseen Jadwat?

 

[Sober]

Bernard Sutton reffed his first NRL game in the last round of 2007 (Sharks vs. Canberra). I expect we'll see more of him this year.

 

[***MH***]

COME ON!!!

Will surely be only one or two more posts until those two magical words are typed.

mogsheen jadwat!

 

[*Paul*]

I hear on Internet message boards that reffing is simply a matter of just being right all the time. Should be thousands queueing up to get that potential 100K a year.

 

[Knightmare]

Does anybody know what became of Jenny Robinson? She reffed Jersey Flegg a few years back.

 

[themanonthehill]

She aged and became billie birmingham and no does richie benaud impersonations in RSLs

 

[The Engineers Room]

I hear on Internet message boards that reffing is simply a matter of just being right all the time. Should be thousands queueing up to get that potential 100K a year.

It isn't easy. They have to be the fittest person on the field.

 

[Tiger_Tim]

Taking Clark and Simpkins out, it looks like this:

Tony Archer
Gavin Badger
Ben Cummins
Tony de las Heras
Sean Hampstead
Shayne Hayne
Jarrad Maxwell
Jason Robinson
Bernard Sutton

..maybe Steve Lyons?

 

[HevyDevy]

Tedro is still on the piss I believe.

I actually see a lot of potential in some of those young refs - Ben Cummins and the like.

All we need to do now is get rid of Shayne Hayne and the quality of refs might return to a decent level.

 

[1 Eyed TEZZA]

I couldnt care who refs the game, all refs will make a mistake eventually. They are all as bad as each other, but still *crosses fingers hoping that Greg Hartley stays in retirement forever*

 

[Gee_Up]

Paul Mellor who retired from the Bunnies is participating in some sort of development program initiated by the NRL to convince ex-players to become referee's.

 

[LeagueNut]

Taking Clark and Simpkins out, it looks like this:

Tony Archer
Gavin Badger
Ben Cummins
Tony de las Heras
Sean Hampstead
Shayne Hayne
Jarrad Maxwell
Jason Robinson
Bernard Sutton

..maybe Steve Lyons?

This is just a guess, but in order of experience we'd have:

Hampstead
Archer
...
...
Daylight
...
...
Hayne
...
...
More Daylight
...
...
The Rest

Hardly fills me with confidence. :?

(Bring back Russell Smith!)

 

[skeepe]

I always thought Hayne came into grade before Archer?

Of that list, Tony De Las Heras and Gavin Badger are nowhere near first grade standard.

 

[Moffo]

how abt steve younis? good touchie