JOY NEVILLE WILL oversee two Pool Matches at the Women’s Rugby World Cup in New Zealand in October.
The IRFU high performance referee will get her World Cup campaign underway in Whangarei as Japan take on Canada in Pool B on Sunday 9 October. The following Saturday, she will referee the Pool C clash between tournament favourites England and their Six Nations rivals France, at the same venue.
The Limerick native will also be on assistant referee duty for Canada-USA on Sunday 23 October, while appointments for the knockout rounds of the tournament will be announced in due course.
IRFU High Performance Referee Joy Neville has been appointed to take charge of two Pool matches at the upcoming Rugby World Cup 2021 in New Zealand ⬇️#RWC2021 | #IrishRugby
— Irish Rugby (@IrishRugby) September 21, 2022
History-making official Neville represented Ireland as a player at two Women’s Rugby World Cups (2006 and 2010) and as a referee at the 2017 edition on these shores.
She was the woman in the middle for the final between Englan and New Zealand at Belfast’s Kingspan Stadium.
Greg McWilliams Ireland will not feature at this autumn’s tournament, which runs from 8 October to 12 November and is staged in the Southern Hemisphere for the first time.
#4 is madness (if Ive read it right), a team that doesnt get to the Ulster final (eg Armagh lets say) will have a knock out game against (randomly) either a Dublin/Kerry etc or a Clare/Westmeath.. The provincial championships are too unbalanced to be the basis of any seeding
A definite no on the first one. The others might be interesting, though unlikely to see every club introduce an underage hurling team.
@Ian Cunningham: Me thinks number one a great idea. Watching underage players now when they get onto a divisional never mind county panel, think they don’t have to show up for club games. Club ought to always come first for players, unfortunately though, there’s no money for the association incoming from club games, it’s inter county that generates that, alas this motion be turned down
@Jed Ward: Cork have enough injury concerns without having to worry about fellas playing meaningless RedFM League matches. If it was county championship matches maybe. That’s what the split season is for.
@Jed Ward: . The demands on inter county players at both underage and senior level are huge. Younger inter county players between the ages of 19 and 22 have in many cases the very significant additional demands of university competitions to cope with. A balance has to be struck. These huge demands are leading to soft tissue injuries. Additional demands being placed on this group of players are highly questionable.
@Richard Ford: as you say “the demands” on amateur players. There is actually no need to elaborate on this. The top brass don’t give a fiddle about “the demands” on players, players are just a commodity for their chunky pay packets and Croke Park
Would love to see football format returned to lose a game and you’re out of provincial championship. Four province winners go to all Ireland semi final and winners of that game onto final. Then again, it’s all about the money, so not a hope of ever seeing that format again in either code
@Jed Ward: given the commitment and training that players put in these days, you can’t have fellas knocked out after one game.
@Jed Ward: Catch yourself on. That format is outdated and way past its sell by date.
@Richard Ford: all about the money money money,
@Ian it’s taking to absolute Michael out of players who are amateur with all the training and commitment they put in. Again it’s all about the money money money. The Grab All Airgead association.
@Jed Ward: OK, you’re one of them. A GAA hater, who knows nothing about the GAA, but has a smart nickname.
@Ian Cunningham: 100% correct there Ian. Actually I’m an ex county player, now coaching an underage level and vice chairman with my juvenile club.
@Jed Ward: what a crock of … .