United Rugby Championship Head of Match Officials Tappe Henning took part in a media round table earlier this week where he discussed a broad range of subjects around refereeing and the URC.
A number of interesting subjects came up, two of them being the use of Hawk-Eye technology in the URC and World Rugby’s interest in expanding the 2src-minute red card rule that is currently being trialled in the Super Rugby Pacific competition.
On the use of Hawk-Eye, Henning is a keen advocate of the technology and is excited to see it being used in rugby union, having successfully been brought into other sports such as cricket, tennis and football.
“It’s an unbelievable system. Hawk-Eye offers so much. I can’t even begin to describe how much techno
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