• A touch judge is an official who monitors the touch-line in a rugby union or rugby league game and raises a flag if the ball (or player carrying it) goes...
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    goes into touch the touch judge will raise their flag into the air. Touch judges hold their flags in front of them perpendicular to the touch line so that...
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    under the control of match officials who consist of the referee and two touch judges or assistant referees." Further officials can be authorised depending...
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  • Elliot. By default the RFL Full Time Match Officials are graded as Elite Touch Judges. Managed by Julian King & Chris Kendall. Managed by Steve Williams. Managed...
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  • tournament as Europe 3. Touch judges: George Selwood (England) Mike Woods (England) Television match official: Rowan Kitt (England) Touch judges: Manuel Bottino...
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  • part of touch. The ball, and players carrying the ball, are not considered to be in touch until they touch the floor. Touch judge The touch judge is an...
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  • the touch judges, and the video referees were Bernard Sutton and Luke Phillips. The standby referee was Ben Cummins and the standby touch judge was Brett...
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  • premiership victories. The officiating team, comprising two referees, two touch judges, two review officials and a stand-by in each position is given below...
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    banned for openly abusing a touch judge in a Super 14 game for the Stormers against the Sharks in Durban. The touch judge in question had suggested the...
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  • minutes later, but the television match official deemed him to have been in touch before grounding the ball, meaning that the Lions had to settle for another...
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  • Henderson and Drew Oultram were the touch judges. Gerard Sutton was the standby referee and David Munro the standby touch judge. The 2022 Grand Final was the...
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  • (NRL) team of full-time officials in 2019. Since then, Badger has been a touch judge in the NRL and has refereed games in the NRL Women's Premiership (NRLW)...
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    Melbourne Storm's Felise Kaufusi, ending the game. Ryan Papenhuyzen was judged best on field, winning his first Clive Churchill Medal. This is only the...
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    judge, arbiter, commissaire, or technical official (by the International Olympic Committee). Referees may be assisted by linesmen, timekeepers, touch...
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  • Anthony Eliott (Touch Judge - New Zealand) Grant Atkins (Touch Judge - Australia) Jason Walsh (Touch Judge - Australia) Robert Hicks (Touch Judge - England)...
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  • first women to be an official at an NRL game when she was one of the touch judges for the match between Wests Tigers and Cronulla Sharks in the last round...
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    2003 while playing for Newport, Montgomery was sent off for pushing a touch judge to the ground, and was later heavily fined and given a two-year ban,...
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  • line defence. Brisbane actively sought to defend its lead, kicking for touch on the sixth tackle throughout most of the second half to wind down the...
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    Laroi. Ashley Klein was appointed to his third NRL grand final, with touch judges Chris Sutton and David Munro. Grant Atkins was appointed as the bunker...
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  • reached. Notes: Marius van der Westhuizen was originally named as a touch judge, but was replaced with Nigel Owens by World Rugby, after attending an...
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  • same as "touch." Sports portal Touch judges, the officials who monitor the touch-lines Out of bounds Wikimedia Commons has media related to Touch rugby....
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  • be a touch judge for the match between Italy and France; he was replaced by referee Nigel Owens. Referee Chris Pollock was due to be a touch judge for...
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    Jérôme Garcès due to injury. Andrew Small (England) replaced Garcès as touch judge. Scotland's victory lifted them from the bottom of the table and condemned...
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  • chief Paddy O'Brien announced that Cobus Wessels would be dropped as a touch judge for the upcoming New Zealand–Australia Test because of a number of key...
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  • 14–4 at halftime. The second half was a defensive slog. Melbourne didn't touch the ball in the opening 10 minutes, holding out set after set of Canterbury's...
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  • by that score. Clive Churchill Medal Melbourne fullback Billy Slater was judged by Australian selectors Bob McCarthy, Bob Fulton, Les Geeves and Des Morris...
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  • Illawarra winger Brett Morris had passed the ball with a foot outside the touch-line so play should not have been allowed to continue. Later, in the sixteenth...
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    The latter, formerly known as touch judges, had the primary function of indicating when the ball had gone into "touch"; their role has been expanded...
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    World Cup appearances (4: 1999 (as a touch judge), 2003, 2007, 2011) and most World Cup games (13 – 5 as a touch judge) most Super 14 games (107, including...
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    Rogers threw to Tuqiri; it threatened to overlap, but went into touch. A touch judge noticed that Woodman's right fist went outside at the back of a maul...
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