Rugby Referees Compilation - Wielding power with respect.

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  @ChrisBrownNZ · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43AdWFSXhgs&amp;t=175">2:55</a> “…I don’t think we’ve met before, but I am the referee on this field, not you. Stick to your job, and I will do mine….” <br>That&apos;s professionalism personified

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• HU

  @hugoraphaeli · 10 years ago

  &quot;...This is not soccer.&quot; Well said Nigel and let&apos;s hope Rugby never ever becomes like it.

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• JA

  @jaryd12345 · 10 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43AdWFSXhgs&amp;t=267">4:27</a> &quot;For your choice of words towards me, unfortunately we cannot accept you.&quot; Love that.

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• SA

  @sahiblindberg · 10 years ago

  I knew that rugby is gentlemen&apos;s sport but I never knew that refs are this respected. Great! Greetings from Finland

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• DI

  @dieselcoch · 10 years ago

  There won&apos;t be a player left on the field if a Rugby ref refed a football game

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• AS

  @assassin8or · 9 years ago

  Rugby: Massive men who could crush a referee if they wanted to, with absolute respect and patience for refs.<br>Football: Little children who throw tantrums and swear right in a refs face

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• EV

  @evealicelucienne · 9 years ago

  &quot;Stick to your job and I&apos;ll do mine. (...) This is NOT soccer. Is that clear?&quot;

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• CA

  @CalumJMorrison · 10 years ago

  I&apos;m not the biggest rugby fan, I prefer football myself, but I do have the greatest respect for rugby referees and how they control the game and command respect. &nbsp;I just wish we had this etiquette in football.

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• HA

  @harryfranks4113 · 10 years ago

  It absolutely disgusts me how different this is to football. Here, you have respect and patience from the players and the ref all the time. In football, you have players like John Terry (to name just one) sprinting half the pitch to scream in the ref&apos;s face when a decision has already made. Not only will this never reverse a decision, it is rude, arrogant, disrespectful and pathetic. The slightest bit of complaining should merit a yellow card and managers should be banned from saying a ref got a decision wrong. It&apos;s so ironic that these huge, intimidating rugby players are so respectful when a bunch of overpaid and egotistical footballers who are half the size think it&apos;s within their right to abuse a referee.

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• MZ

  @Mzansi74 · 10 years ago

  In Football, a 5&apos;10&quot; guy controls guys of around 5&apos;11&quot;.<br><br>In Rugby , a 5&apos;8&quot; guy controls guys up to 6&apos;10&quot;. A stern approach is required!

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• PH

  @phillipfry9765 · 6 years ago (edited)

  “For your choice of words towards me unfortunately we cannot accept you.”

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• SO

  @soddof7972 · 10 years ago

  I think the biggest thing that comes from these isn&apos;t necessarily a &quot;football vs rugby&quot; argument but how much easier it is to accept decisions when the referee clearly states why they have been made calmly to the player.

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