Quote PopTart="PopTart"I agree. To be last in a sprint race of young athletes when you are older and you don't even play is pretty good.
I reckon he would come quite a long way up the list if you had all players running.
He has increased my respect for him as a person. As a ref I think he's ok too....ish.'"
Yep, he's in his 40's is Thierry so he didn't do badly at all against a load of very quick youngsters.
I think he's quite a poor ref but he doesn't seem to have the ego of some of the other refs and like you, he's gone up in my estimation for having the balls to take part.