Eddies Jones: England head coach meets referees' chief to discuss officiating
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Premiership officials are prepared to tweak the way they referee in order to help England in international games.
England boss Eddie Jones has asked referees' chief Tony Spreadbury for "a contest" at the breakdown this season.
Premiership referees favoured the attacking side last season, encouraging teams to keep the ball.
However, England struggled in the Six Nations and on their summer tour of South Africa, where officials allowed defenders more leeway.
"He was saying to me: 'If we have a contest, that will be great for us'," Spreadbury said.
"I said that's fine, but we will referee the laws of the game, and he accepts that. We also want a contest and we want to allow a contest."
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As well as speaking to the England boss, Spreadbury regularly canvasses the views of the Premiership coaches, and expects to see a slight tweak in how the game is refereed in the upcoming campaign.

"All the directors of rugby who have spoken to me in July and August say it is about getting people away from the ball but when there's a good jackal, let's reward them," Spreadbury added.
The new Premiership season starts on Friday night, as newly-promoted Bristol Bears host Bath at Ashton Gate.
"We'll see how players react this weekend, and if there's anything different in their approach to how they want to play the breakdown," Spreadbury said.
'Protect the game's values'
RFU officials have also vowed to crack down this season on player behaviour, including appealing to the referee, goading the opposition, and brandishing imaginary cards.
They will also look to discipline unwanted involvement from "non-participants", such as team medics and water carriers.
"Pre-season we have given the clubs the message," Spreadbury said.
"We met yesterday with all the members of the PGMOT [Professional Game Match Official Team].
"We presented to them about the game values and what we want."
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I really don't get the negative response to the article, making a contest at the breakdown will encourage back row forwards to turnover the ball. Exactly what we need in English rugby, we are miles behind Southern Nations countries, even behind Ireland and Wales.
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And Scotland.
The breakdown was the biggest failure of England last season including the 6 Nations and the South Africa Tests. The failure had nothing to do with officiating rather the lack of preparation and conviction of England.
England need to get back to simple rugby and doing the basics.
"Make appealing and arm waving at the referee a penalty offence. Itoje the worst offender."
Surely that has to be Dan Biggar!
I hope this will give a return to the faster flanker instead of relying on a team of giant ball carriers,first to the tackle wins the ball,could lead to a faster game
It would appear that objecting to trolls taking every opportunity to slag off all things English / England is not permitted by the BBC police. RIP freedom of speech!
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Yeah, you got your daft comment deleted. It truly is the day freedom died.
EJ is simply asking for more consistency across the tournaments so that the ENG teams are better prepared for the job.
Instead I would suggest he gets a forwards coach who can study the International game and prepare ENG as necessary to compete at the breakdown.
There's 2 other articles one on how we as a rugby playing nation aren't tapping into unused talent pools and one on premiership predictions. Surely both of these are better suited for HYS than one on Eddie Jones meeting with refs, which as head coach he should be doing as standard. Sort it out Chris Jones.