{"id":28948,"date":"2025-07-29T02:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/28948\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T02:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:35:09","slug":"alan-gilpin-addresses-furore-over-clearout-call-at-world-rugby-event-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/28948\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Gilpin addresses furore over clearout call at World Rugby event in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>World Rugby chief executive Alan Gilpin has confirmed that the governing body will be supporting its match officials following the controversial clear-out decision at the end of the second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/british-irish-lions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">British &amp; Irish Lions<\/a> Test in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>A decision not to penalise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/jac-morgan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jac Morgan<\/a> for a clear-out in the lead-up to Hugo Keenan\u2019s match-winning try has split rugby fans\u2014largely along the lines of whether you were supporting the Wallabies or the Lions.<\/p>\n<p>Gilpin, who was speaking at the launch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/rugby-world-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby World Cup<\/a> Ticketing Programme for the 2027 tournament, said that World Rugby would be supporting its match officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmotions understandably run very high with a compelling and fiercely contested match, such as the one we saw going right down to the wire,\u201d said Gilpin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn those tight contests, decisions made in crucial moments inevitably draw a lot of scrutiny, and while World Rugby has stated that we do not publicly comment on match officials\u2019 decisions or performance, given the nature of the commentary surrounding last weekend, I just wanted to express our support for the team of match officials involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no other position on the field that is under the scrutiny that our match officials are under, yet they do an incredible job under incredible pressure in a very hard environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s fair to say that when referee groups are reviewing decisions\u2014and they do review decisions, they review with the coaches, they review them across the game\u2014we are always proud to support our match officials as part of that process, and that\u2019s what we are doing now and in the coming days with our colleagues in Rugby Australia. So suffice to say we won\u2019t be taking any further questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over 2.5 million tickets will be available for what will likely be the largest and best-attended Rugby World Cup in history. World Rugby are directing fans to register their interest via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbyworldcup.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby World Cup website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World Rugby chief executive Alan Gilpin has confirmed that the governing body will be supporting its match officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-28948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28948","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=28948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}