Bryce lawrence where is he from

The Bay of Plenty native followed in his father Keith's footsteps by becoming an international referee, making his first Test appearance in the clash between South Africa and Australia in the Tri-Nations. He had previously refereed the season's Super 14 semi-final between the Waratahs and the Sharks and took charge of the Air New Zealand Cup final. The New Zealander came in for criticism from the Lions coaching team after Tendai "The Beast" Mtawarira took Phil Vickery apart at scrum time, leading to a number of penalties being awarded that cost the tourists dearly.

Lawrence was on the touchline as assistant referee the following week as the Springboks clinched the series. The Lions at the time felt that Lawrence had made the wrong call in the scrum, where he penalised Vickery, one of the tourist's props, so often in the first half that Vickery's opposite number Tendai "The Beast"Mtawarira become a hero in his adopted country.

Lawrence was criticised by South Africa last year for, in their view, allowing the flanker David Pocock to infringe continually at the breakdown. Pocock has not played for the Wallabies since injuring a knee at the start of the Rugby Championship in August and is unlikely to be in the squad that tours Europe next month. Criticism of a referee's performance is a special bugbear of those at the top of the trade. Who looks after us? The top whistlers themselves think there's nothing wrong with referees appearing on TV panel shows to explain a few things, but wonder about the practicalities of it.

So where do you draw the line? Would a referee who does 25 games a year really want to front up 25 times? We can't drop everyone who makes a mistake. There'd be no one to referee the game. That's because the referee's answer was usually something like 'Well I haven't seen the video yet so I can't comment properly' so it just died a natural death.

When a referee is being bagged we should front that. We need to educate people. Most rugby people just want to know why, why was he right or why was he wrong? And if one of our guys makes a mistake, we have to be brave enough to admit it. It doesn't make him a bad person, it just means he got it wrong.

His more notable matches in charge include the Super 14 semi-final between the Waratahs and the Sharks, the final of the Air New Zealand Cup and two test matches involving Australia and South Africa in the Tri Nations. Lawrence refereed his first Tri Nations matches during the series.

He refereed the Six Nations France versus England match in Bryce Lawrence refereed the quarterfinal in the rugby world cup between South Africa and Australia. He allegedly received threats from South African supporters and refused to referee there during the Super Rugby season. Lawrence was dropped from the nine-man elite panel in He announced his retirement in , motivated partly by reactions to his self-acknowledged poor performance in the Rugby World Cup quarter-final match between South Africa and Australia.

Ranked on the list of most popular Referee. Also ranked in the elit list of famous celebrity born in New Zealand. Bryce Lawrence celebrates birthday on December 23 of every year.