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When arriving at Guilford School the Hale team yr 9A rugby, which i am a part of, got off the bus 2 find the referee in the Guilford change rooms. Why would he be in the opposistion change rooms? Well we at first suspected that he was just checking boots and mouthgaurds so we proceeded with our warm up. Then he came over to the Hale team and checked our boots etc. The game kicked off and i caught the ball on the left wing and ran it up feild, when tackled i outstretched my hands and placed the ball back for my team. According to the ref i was holding on the ball???? anyways Guilord had a halftime lead of 7-0. the second half started well for us scoring a try within seconds, witha missed conversion. 5-7. Again the Hale team broke the line scored, another missed conversion. 10-7. now with only 5 minutes left to go a try for us would seal the game in our favour, a scrum is being conducted in their half and it is our put in, we win the ball and soon the ball is in my hands from a skip pass, i had an open run at the line. THE REF BLOWS HIS WHISTLE! he calles us back for an infringment at the scrum! now why does he blow the whistle then! anyways a minute or so before the end of the game their winger get the ball with room to run he fend off our other winger in the face and makes a charge for the line, our fullback tackles him just before the line and is held, the guilford player squirms and half stands up and put the ball down over the line. our whole team is shouting @ND MOVEMENT REF! he awards a try! end of game 12-10 to guilford. The ref was so biast that i remember hearing a spectator yelling out " go put on your Guilford jumper ref!" Now my point is why some school have paid refs and others do not??? it should always be paid refs that way we will hav a fair game. GO HALE!