{"id":418659,"date":"2026-02-10T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418659\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T20:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T20:54:08","slug":"referee-watch-round-1-match-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418659\/","title":{"rendered":"Referee Watch | Round 1 Match Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rugby Football League have confirmed the match officials for our Betfred Super League opener with Castleford Tigers this sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Smith has been appointed referee for the Round 1 clash between Castleford and Wigan, with Chris Kendall selected as the video referee. Marcus Griffiths and Alex Cameron will serve as touch judges for the fixture in West Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p>Round 1 Referee Appointments: <\/p>\n<p>Liam Rush \u2013 York Knights v Hull KR<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Moore \u2013 Catalans Dragons v Huddersfield Giants<\/p>\n<p>Liam Moore \u2013 Warrington Wolves v St Helens<\/p>\n<p>Tom Grant \u2013 Leigh Leopards v Leeds Rhinos<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Griffiths \u2013 Hull FC v Bradford Bulls<\/p>\n<p>James Vella \u2013 Wakefield Trinity v Toulouse Olympique XIII <\/p>\n<p>Jack Smith \u2013 Castleford Tigers v Wigan Warriors <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rugby Football League have confirmed the match officials for our Betfred Super League opener with Castleford Tigers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-418659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}