Challenges of officiating with Nigel Owens

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🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week we are talking about officiating and how it is evolving with the increasing presence of technology in the game. Ben, Charles and Charlie are joined by one of the most recognisable officials to have ever stepped onto the field in Nigel Owens.

Nigel expresses his concerns for a growing over-reliance on the TMO and he also explains how a desire to referee a 'perfect' game is making the sport less watchable. We also get his take on Rassie Erasmus after the South Africa director of rugby took to social media yet again to question officiating after his side’s loss to France.

We are once again joined by Fiona Tomas from Auckland after the Red Roses fell agonisingly short in the World Cup final against New Zealand.

The guys recap a comfortable win for England over Japan where Marcus Smith helped himself to a brace of tries, yet not everyone is convinced the Harlequins star should be in the starting XV.

Plus, we cast an eye over the rest of the weekend’s action including a comeback win for the All Blacks over Scotland, a thriller between France and South Africa in Marseille and a first win for Italy over Australia!

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0:00.0	The Telegraph Podcasts.
0:04.3	Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Telegraph Rugby podcast.
0:19.9	I'm Ben Coles
0:20.8	and I'm joined as always by Charlie
0:22.4	Morgan. Hi Charlie. Oh, too early there.
0:24.6	Hi, mate. You are very enthusiastic this
0:26.7	week. That's great to see. And I'm also joined
0:28.7	by Charles Richardson. Hello, Charles.
0:30.5	Hello. Hello, everyone. Tons
0:32.7	to get into this week, gents.
0:34.6	We're going to be hearing from our reporter Fiona
0:36.1	Thomas in Auckland after a riveting rugby World Cup final on Saturday morning, featuring arguably one of the
0:42.5	greatest line-out steals in the game's history as New Zealand broke English hearts. Guys,
0:47.3	what a final. It had everything. Following on from two semis as well, how often do you see
0:51.5	at least one of those three kind of top-tier knockout
0:54.2	games just being a real stodge fest and the final was brilliant. Two sides whose strengths were
1:00.5	well publicised and actually came out in the final and for it to be decided right at the death
1:05.7	on New Zealand just about getting on top of that super strength of England's was fantastic it really was it really was
1:12.4	and we're also going to look ahead to England's game against the all blacks after they eased past a really poor
1:18.3	Japan side it has to be said at Twickenham and we're also going to hear about Charles's latest croissant
1:23.6	fuel trip to France and recap all the weekends test action just on the game in Twickenham.
1:28.4	Charlie and I were there.
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