If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.
ALAN LEWISMy job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.
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If you can achieve that, that then it has been a pretty good game.
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My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.
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I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to.
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The ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.
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They probably know more about me than I know myself!
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If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don’t bother doing the job.
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I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing.
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You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great.
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It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.
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But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.
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The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game.
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I have three tools at my disposal – my whistle, my body language and my talk.
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Failure comes when you don’t listen.
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I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation.
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It is a question of sometimes choosing what is – in your own mind – of material importance and what isn’t, what might be a crucial potential penalty and what might not be.
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