I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing.
ALAN LEWIS
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Coaches will do what they can but it doesn’t necessarily bother me.
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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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My 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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If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.
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If at first you don’t succeed, get a bigger hammer.
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You are an international referee for a reason.
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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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Failure comes when you don’t listen.
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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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Coaches will do what they can but it doesn’t necessarily bother me.
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They probably know more about me than I know myself!
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I have three tools at my disposal – my whistle, my body language and my talk.
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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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The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game.
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