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This is a list of players sent off in NRL and NRL Women's matches since the reunification of rugby league in Australia after the Super League war in 1998. 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 ...
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 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.
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. [5]
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.
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 ...
In 2004 he was named the international referee of the year. [3] He moved to Australia in 2005, becoming a National Rugby League referee. [4] He retired at the end of the 2006 NRL season. [1] After retiring, Smith became a video official and, after a stint as the interim boss, [5] [6] acted as a senior advisor to the referees boss, Daniel ...
Kevin John "Shayne" Hayne (born 31 October 1967 in Wellington, New South Wales, [3]) is an Australian former rugby league referee.He officiated in the National Rugby League, City vs Country Origin, State of Origin series, All Stars Matches, the 2008 World Cup and the 2009, 2010, 2013 and 2014 NRL Grand Finals.