Jonathan Davies: TMOs want defending from threats
J
onathan Davies believes the identities of Television Match Officials needs to be saved nameless to spice up refereeing in top-level rugby.
The opening weekend of the World Cup noticed a clutch of inconsistent selections relating to head-on-head collisions in France, resulting in criticism of the officiating course of.
Former Wales star Davies advised Lawrence Dallaglio’s Evening Standard Rugby Podcast that TMOs shouldn’t be named to be able to defend their security and the integrity of the officiating course of. In the previous, officers have acquired credible demise threats and arrests have been revamped social media threats.
“I think TMOs should be anonymous, we shouldn’t be told who it is,” mentioned Davies. “I think they are worried, I think they are influenced by post-match comments on social media. Some of them have had death threats. If you don’t know who they are, they can’t receive death threats. So that’s one way to help.”