Assaulting Rugby Referees is part of our country's DNA

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.  

More ref bashing

What a sad state of affairs.

A 'nothing' club rugby game in the sporting backwash of Oamaru enrages one fan enough to 'smack' the ref.  

Read if you want to increase your blood pressure, despair at the state of N.Z's national sport. 

N.Z’s best Rugby Ref Shitted On by NZRFU

The Super 15 began last night with an entertaining game between the Highlanders and Chiefs. 

Oh what a difference a good referee makes in a modern-day game of rugby.   

Make no bones about it Stephen Walsh is the best referee from New Zealand. 

Only Steve Walsh is now an Australian after being shitted on from up-high by the NZFU. 

So what were Walsh’s crimes that saw the NZRFU cut ties with the then best up and coming referee we had?  

Did he harass an innocent female athlete out on a training run? 

Did he smash the face of a bloke enjoying his 50^th birthday party and his mate who went to intervene?  

Was he so pissed out of his tree he had to be restrained by mates, didn’t remember any of this and needed the NZRFU to send a ‘media clean-up’ person to his holiday resort to keep a lid on things?   

Did the same person who said he was reformed then assault a mate asleep in bed and do the same to another guy under the same circumstances minutes later whilst highly intoxicated?   

I mean these sort of serious incidents aren’t seen as enough for All Blacks to be cut-lose now are they?       

Walsh’s heinous crime was to turn-up to a refereeing conference pissed. 

Why the N.Z Media can’t also juxtapose these positions and the standards set for one group of NZRFU employees versus another shows you the Stalinist power welded by the Union. 

The spineless media in N.Z can’t afford to have their prime sporting news taken from underneath them by airing the hypocrisy of Walsh versus Guildford.