Owen Doyle
speaker
830 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Owen Doyle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, about four or five of those could have done a semi.
And you have two or three who have done the final.
And now it's tighter than that.
You know, they have to be full time.
A lot of people, refs, referees do not want to be full time.
So they don't take it up or they just say, look, I'm going to referee club rugby just because I enjoy it.
Or to use that phrase, I'm going to give back something to the game that they enjoyed.
They want their absolute jobs.
And it's the same long question.
What do you do when you're 45 and they turn around and say, that's it?
Hopefully you've got something lined up.
Hopefully you've been educating yourself.
But at the age of 45, you should be at the top of your managerial or position in a job.
But now you're, or as a teacher, you're vying for being a headmaster if you want to, or whatever, you've made your reputation.
I mean, there was one English referee years ago who gave up teaching.
when he was 27 and appointed to the International Panel.
And when he was finished in 45, he didn't want to go back teaching.
You know, he's completely, he would have been the old man with all these new teachers, and he eventually got a job with the rugby union, and that was fine, but it's not going to work out for everybody like that.
That's very simplistic.
It is a problem, and just to reiterate, it's the French that are being blamed for having this problem.
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