Angus Gardner finds the Blues, for their latest test in New Zealand. That’s all you need to know about the Australian referee.
He was at the whistle of Ireland-France in March
It was a highly important match for the Blues, defeated in England a month earlier. They won, in Dublin, with the way (27-42). This allowed them to have their destiny in their hands, before receiving Scotland for the coronation. The official of the meeting was the Australian Angus Gardner.
He exceeded 50 official games
On the lawn of the Aviva Stadium on March 8, precisely, it exceeded the symbolic threshold of the 50 arbitrated games. A figure that shows all the importance that Angus Gardner internationally.
A micro-event for his first match with the Blues
It was in 2019, the World Cup in Japan had just started, and the Blues were already in front of a big challenge, with the match against the Argentines. Match they won (23-21) but which left some bad memories on the front line, Jefferson Poirot in mind, about the scrum. It will cost the Australian the next match that was promised him (on the sidelines), namely Argentine-England, which Ben O’Keeffe would recover.
A disease forced him to stop rugby
He had started young, at 6 years old at his home in Sydney. But the practice of rugby is not compatible with his hereditary disease according to his doctor: “When I was 15, I was diagnosed with Sheuermann’s disease (When the spine makes a “S”, editor’s note). The doctor said to me: “My friend, you’re going to have to fish.”“
His reorientation towards arbitration, as a teacher advised him, is beneficial and after the difficulties of the beginnings, he flourished fully in this exercise.
Late hatching
Despite his obvious provisions, his place in the arbitral ecosystem, it was not at 31 years old, in 2015, that he became a full -time referee. If he had already known international games with the Oceania Cup (2010) and the Junior World Cups (2012, 2014), he will really take off in super rugby in this year 2015, which will be worth him to be an assistant for the 2015 World Cup. He will receive, in 2018, the privilege of arbitrating the final of the 2018 Super Rugby (Crusade 37-18 Lions), and also, the same year referee of the year World Rugby.