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I was wondering while watching the Brumbies v Wararahs game why we had a SA ref. IMHO he had an ordinary game and i would have thought Berry or Gardiner would have been better. If flying a neutral ref to SA or NZ to prevent cocieved bias is cost prohibitive to SANZAR , why fly a SA ref to a local derby in Oz?
The primary reason for the change many years ago was to pick referees on merit not due to cost minimisation. This game would not have been regarded as one of the top matches of the week (1v4 in the conference). There were other games this round that on merit would have received the higher graded referees.