John Jeffrey on his seat at rugby’s top table
It rather got lost in all the hullabaloo at Old Trafford but last Wednesday the IRB Council held one of their biannual meetings at which Kelso’s finest, former Scotland flanker John Jeffrey, was appointed chairman of the rugby committee. He had been doing the job on an interim basis ever since the former All Blacks skipper Graham Mourie stepped down in March. Jeffrey is already chairman of the match officials selection committee, which does what it says on the tin, deciding which referees get to blow which Test match.
After years spent shouting in outer space Scotland finally have a voice at the top table of the game because every decision concerning the actual playing/officiating of rugby gets scrutinised by Jeffrey and his colleagues.
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