My Job Is To Persuade People To

If At First You Don't Succeed, Get A Bigger Hammer.

The Objective Of A Referee Is Not To Get Mentioned. I Tell A Lot Of Young Referees That Not Being Mentioned Is King. If You Can Achieve That, That Then It Has Been A Pretty Good Game.

Coaches Will Do What They Can But It Doesn't Necessarily Bother Me. You Are An International Referee For A Reason. If Things Like That Are Going To Ruffle Your Feathers, Don't Bother Doing The Job.

I Do My Own Analysis On The Teams I Am Refereeing. I Will Know Some Of The Personalities, The Players Who Could Be Difficult Customers In A Scrum Situation, The Ones I Am Going To Have To Really Work Hard On Early In The Game To Get What I Want.

I Have Three Tools At My Disposal - My Whistle, My Body Language And My Talk. It Is A Question Of How I Marry Them Up To Try To Get The Players Around To My Way Of Thinking.