June 2018: Marist
player Sautia Lemalu receives a 10 year ban for twice striking a referee in
Masterton
July 2018:
Referee punches after a match in Oamaru between Old Boys & Valley
June 2019:
Central Rugby Club (Tasman) player Peter Vakaloa makes threatening advances
towards the assistant referee after being red-carded.
July 2019: A ref is punched in a match in
Middlemarch, Otago (refer my last post for the gory details)
July 2019: A 15 y.o referee was punched and strangled
by a spectator after he sent a player off the field at an under-12s game in
Auckland, involving two teams from the same Ardmore Marist club.
