NRL referee Grant Atkins has been chosen to be the match official for the final Ashes Test of this autumn\u2019s series, it has been confirmed.<\/p>\n
Atkins was the man in the middle for last weekend\u2019s 14-4 victory for Australia at Everton\u2019s Hill Dickinson Stadium. He was involved in a number of controversial decisions, including sin-binning three players.<\/p>\n
Australian duo Tino Fa\u2019asuamaleaui and Reece Walsh, as well as England\u2019s Dom Young, were all shown yellow cards during a feisty clash in Liverpool last weekend.<\/p>\n
Atkins was in a two-man race with top Super League official Liam Moore to earn the right to have the whistle for the last Test of the series, with Moore taking charge of game one at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n
And a panel including the RFL\u2019s head of officials, Phil Bentham, and his NRL equivalent Jared Maxwell, have now deemed that Atkins is the best choice for the role after reviewing the first two games.<\/p>\n
There will be Super League representation on the officiating team with Jonny Roberts and Warren Turley running the line as touch judges. Tom Grant will also step in and be the video referee for the game.<\/p>\n
But it is Australian Atkins who gets the big job of match referee.<\/p>\n
The RFL confirmed: \u201cGrant Atkins has been appointed to referee Saturday\u2019s Third Test of the ABK Beer Rugby League Ashes at AMT Headingley.<\/p>\n
\u201cJonny Roberts and Warren Turley will be the touch judges, with Tom Grant making his first appearance of the series as the video referee.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese appointments follow discussions between Phil Bentham, the RFL\u2019s Head of Match Officials, and Jared Maxwell, the NRL\u2019s General Manager \u2013 Elite Officiating, as explained before the series.\u201d<\/p>\n
The game will be played in front of a sell-out crowd at Headingley, with England looking to avoid a humiliating series whitewash after two disappointing defeats in London and Liverpool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NRL referee Grant Atkins has been chosen to be the match official for the final Ashes Test of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-261769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}