Super Rugby Match Officials Round 9

Super Rugby Match Officials Round 9 Australia's Rohan Hoffmann will start the Super Rugby action this weekend
SANZAR have released the officials for the ninth round in the 2014 Super Rugby tournament and Rohan Hoffmann starts the action this weekend in Dunedin when the Highlanders host the Bulls.

Like last weekend this week has six matches with two on Friday and four on Saturday.

The Blues, Hurricanes and Stormers have the bye.

Match No. 50: Highlanders v Bulls
Date :Friday 11 April
Venue : Forsyth Barr Stadium
Kick Off local: 19:35
Referee: Rohan Hoffmann
Assistant Ref 1: Kane McBride
Assistant Ref 2: Shane McDermott
TMO: Vinny Munro

Match No. 51: Reds v Brumbies
Date :Friday 11 April
Venue : Suncorp Stadium
Kick Off local: 19:40
Referee: Steve Walsh
Assistant Ref 1: James Leckie
Assistant Ref 2: Will Houston
TMO: George Ayoub

Match No. 52: Chiefs v Rebels
Date :Saturday 12 April
Venue : Waikato Stadium
Kick Off local: 19:35
Referee: Matt O'Brien
Assistant Ref 1: Nick Briant
Assistant Ref 2: Ben O'Keeffe
TMO: Ben Skeen

Match No. 53: Force v Waratahs
Date :Saturday 12 April
Venue : nib Stadium
Kick Off local: 17:40
Referee: Angus Gardner
Assistant Ref 1: Ian Smith
Assistant Ref 2: Damien Mitchelmore
TMO: Steve Leszczynski

Match No. 54: Cheetahs v Crusaders
Date :Saturday 12 April
Venue : Free State Stadium
Kick Off local: 17:05
Referee: Glen Jackson
Assistant Ref 1: Jaco Peyper
Assistant Ref 2: Francois de Bruin
TMO: Johan Greeff

Match No. 55: Lions v Sharks
Date :Saturday 12 April
Venue : Ellis Park
Kick Off local: 19:10
Referee: Craig Joubert
Assistant Ref 1: Marius van der Westhuizen
Assistant Ref 2: Stefan Breytenbach
TMO: Marius Jonker

good to see deon van poostain in no TMO role, lets hope this positive
 trend continues.

interesting that marius jonker is in charge of the sharks vs lions game, every sharks match he has ever reffed the sharks have never lost, lions arent going to want any 50/50 calls to go upstairs, LMAO,

but on a more serious note, i would like to see marius jonker return to reffing duties.
IMO he was a very competent if sometimes irritating ref, but had a lot more good games then bad.

brumbies fans might not agree though, im sure they are still spewing over jonkers handling of the bulls/brumbies match back in 2012, one of the worst ref performances i have ever seen.