Referee: A Sweet
Reserve: G Houston

TJ - N Bennett
TJ - Woodman

Match Commissioner: G Kershaw

Any news anyone ?? A.Sweet did he do Newcastle and Hemel this year ??


COYB's

Referee Andrew Sweet - from Yorkshire, in his mid-20s. Previous performances:
23/06/2013 - South Wales 6 Oxford 28 (penalties 9-4 in favour of Oxford)
04/08/2013 - Hemel 30 Oxford 16 (penalties 3-6 against)
02/03/2014 - Oxford 19 London Skolars 12 (penalties 8-11 against, sinbinned Chris Clarke)
31/08/2014 - Oxford 29 South Wales 22 (penalties 9-8 in favour)
08/03/2015 - Hemel 10 Oxford 22 (Challenge Cup) (penalties 11-9 in favour)

Reserve Gareth Houston - we have had him as reserve once before.

Touch Judges
N Bennett - also touch judge for the League 1 cup game against Newcastle this season.
Jason Woodman -was a touch judge at the Hemel game last week, and reserve referee for a 2013 game.

Match Commissioner Gerry Kershaw we saw once in 2013. He is a former top flight referee from the 1970s through to early 90s, including the 1981 Challenge Cup Final. Was video ref in the 2000 World Cup Final and the 2002 Grand Final. Now he is the head of match commissioners. Also notable for being attacked by a female Warrington fan after refereeing a game there (she was arrested and fined).

I saw him referee Castleford v Australia in 1990. He gave penalties to the Australians all through the game, but in the last 15 minutes when the result was not in doubt he gave penalty after penalty to Castleford. A Cas fan shouted at him that all he was doing was evening up the count so that it would look OK in the papers - that was the first time I ever thought about that concept. So you could say that Kershaw was the inspiration for me including penalty counts in these posts.

Gerry was also the match commissioner for our first ever game home to S.Wales

thanks mate you are the best