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Ref's for Heineken clashes announced

  • 06-01-2010 8:19pm
    #1
    Macsimus
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    Poite to take charge of Munster against Saints

    GERRY THORNLEYHEINEKEN CUP REFEREES: MUNSTER MAY be slightly unnerved to learn the French referee, Romain Poite, will be in charge of their concluding Heineken Cup pool game and likely group decider against Northampton on Friday, January 22nd. Poite was the inexperienced and controversial figure in the eye of a Thomond Park storm when refereeing the All Blacks’ 18-16 win over Munster in November 2008, and he was also in charge for London Irish’s 12-9 win over Leinster in the opening round this season.
    As for the holders’ likely winner-takes-all finale against London Irish at the Madejski Stadium the next day, the referee will be Nigel Owens, with whom they have had a few run-ins in the past. However, he was also in charge of Leinster’s semi-final win over Munster last season as well as the final against Leicester. Maintaining something of a trend in the competition to date, both Munster and Leinster will have English referees in charge of their penultimate pool games, away to Treviso and at home to Brive, respectively, the weekend after next.
    The experienced Chris White, one of only three referees to have overseen more than 50 Heineken Cup games, has been appointed to the Treviso-Munster match on Saturday, January 16th, while later that day Andrew Small will be the referee at the RDS.
    Ulster will have two French referees for their concluding games at home to Edinburgh and away to Bath, namely Christophe Berdos at Ravenhill and Jerome Garces at the Rec.
    One-third of the final two rounds of games will be refereed by Irishmen, with Alain Rolland, Alan Lewis (the other two officials to have taken charge of more than 50 games), George Clancy and Peter Fitzgibbon all appointed to games on both weekends.
    Connacht will also have a familiar referee for their crunch Amlin Challenge Cup meeting with Montpellier in the shape of Scotland’s Peter Allan.

    Pretty happy with that from a Leinster pov, Owens can be a bit of a homer - but arent they all - but at least we've a good few games under the belt with him and we should know how he is likely to want the game played.

    Thornley reckons Munster wont be happy with Poite - cant remember him being that bad during the Munster V AB's game- but I rarely remember a bad reffing performance unless it was my team on the end of it - Any Munster posters with good memories??
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