A New Zealand referee is about to enter a boot camp in Portugal as one of 10 international whistlers for the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup. When Natarsha “Tarsh” Ganley locked her rugby ...

It was no less a figure than former England head coach Eddie Jones who labelled Nic White as “the biggest niggler of all time ...

They should though, and she has nothing to do with any of the famous Barrett brothers in New Zealand – she is this country’s leading women’s referee and she is breaking ground all the time.

Scottish referee Hollie Davidson gave Bath flanker Sam Underhill a yellow card for head-on-head contact in the Rec club’s European Challenge Cup final victory over Lyon in Cardiff last weekend.

During a chance meeting recently with a former international rugby referee, one of his first comments about the game he officiated for many years was: “I’m all rugby’d out.” Whether that ...

Owen Doyle: Rugby’s failure to punish violence and gamesmanship risks pushing a generation away Amateur players are abandoning the sport over fears of sustaining brain damage ...

He has seen a societal shift and a general degradation of respect towards referees over the years. Kennett adds that rugby is a sport based on mutual respect and communities need to stand up to ma ...

The country’s top referees will train alongside Super Rugby franchises this year, as part of a New Zealand Rugby initiative. One referee has been assigned to each of the five New Zealand ...

Uriah Rennie, who made history when he became the Premier League's first black referee, has died at the age of 65 and the world of football has paid tribute to the trailblazer ...

Any further instances of serious referee abuse would lead to the cancellation of matches. Photo / Getty Images. The Horowhenua-Kāpiti Rugby Union has taken the unprecedented step of threatening ...

Leicester Tigers boss Michael Cheika took aim at the referee after coming up short in the Premiership final as he declared ...