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Referees have the option to send players from the field for a variety of reasons, but it has mostly been utilised for serious foul play in recent seasons. In 2022 while playing for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Taane Milne became the first player to be sent off in any NRL finals match. He was the first player sent off in an Australian first grade ...
The NRL match officials are a select group of trained professional and semi-professional rugby league match officials who officiate in the National Rugby League (NRL) and lower tier rugby league competitions, including the Holden Cup, the Intrust Super Premiership NSW and the Intrust Super Cup.
Referee Ashley Klein awards a penalty. Rugby league match officials are responsible for fairly enforcing the Laws of the Game from a neutral point of view during a match of rugby league football and imposing penalties for deliberate breaches of these Laws. [1] [2] The most senior match official is the referee. They may be assisted by a range of ...
The following is a list of rugby league referees who have appeared in Australian top-level rugby league, that is the NRL and its predecessors, the NSWRL, ARL and SL premierships. Referees still currently active are listed in bold.
He became a referee, and was added to the Rugby Football League's Grade One referee's list during the 1967–68 season. [ 4 ] He took charge of his first Challenge Cup final in 1971 , and became the first referee to send off a player in a Challenge Cup final when he dismissed Syd Hynes for an alleged headbutt on Alex Murphy .
Phil Bentham was re-appointed as the RFL's Head of Match Officials in February 2024, [2] he previously held this post on an interim basis between Jan-March 2021 while Steve Ganson was on leave. Dave Elliot served as interim Head of Match Officials for between Jan-Dec 2023 while an internal investigation took place into the department, ran by ...
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Hall was originally appointed by Super League to be that competition's judiciary commissioner, and was joined by Graham Annesley and Ron Massey to form the MRC. [7] The MRC would review incidents where players were either sent off or reported by the referee; subject to a complaint by an opposition club, or another source; or observed by the MRC.