{"id":375541,"date":"2026-04-12T06:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/375541\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T06:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:02:07","slug":"drua-coach-says-some-refereeing-decisions-were-mind-boggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/375541\/","title":{"rendered":"Drua coach says some refereeing decisions were mind boggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officiating is a hard job but some decisions made out there were just mind boggling.<\/p>\n<p>Swire Shipping Fijian Drua Coach, Glen Jackson highlighted this after fijivillage Sports asked about how quick Etonia Waqa was shown a yellow card in the 8th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Insert: Jacko it was wrong April 12<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week Jackson had spoken about being pretty disappointed in the way their game against the Crusaders was officiated, saying referee Paul Williamson put his hand up on a few things.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the amount of dropped balls by the team, Jackson says it is something they have been talking about for 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson says it is not a shock that they are not looking after the ball well enough, because if they don&#8217;t then they are constantly defending.<\/p>\n<p>The Fijian Drua take on the Brumbies who will be out to avenge their\u00a042-27 loss on Saturday at 9.35pm at GIO Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>In other games, the Blues take on the Highlanders at 7.05pm Friday, the Waratahs host Moana Pasifika at 9.35pm.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the Chiefs will meet the Hurricanes at 7.05pm while the Force will face the Crusaders at 11.55pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officiating is a hard job but some decisions made out there were just mind boggling. Swire Shipping Fijian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[195959,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-375541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-drua-fijian-drua-photo-rugby-super-rugby","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}