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.
ALAN LEWISMy job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.
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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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The objective of a referee is not to get mentioned. I tell a lot of young referees that not being mentioned is king.
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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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My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.
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They probably know more about me than I know myself!
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If you can achieve that, that then it has been a pretty good game.
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I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing.
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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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You are an international referee for a reason.
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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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Coaches do so much research about a referee because they believe refereeing is such a crucial part of the game that the result may hinge on what we say or do.
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If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don’t bother doing the job.
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If at first you don’t succeed, get a bigger hammer.
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Coaches will do what they can but it doesn’t necessarily bother me.
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