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George Clancy
DIR By: RCG
Date: October 29, 2020, 5:14 pm
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Has hung up his whistle, 17 years a referee.
My feelings of Clancy are well documented but in spite of that,
good luck going forward
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Re: George Clancy
DIR By: guest42
Date: October 30, 2020, 7:02 am
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Can we refer that to the TMO to confirm please?
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Re: George Clancy
DIR By: AFAref
Date: October 31, 2020, 9:28 am
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George Clancy has retired from refereeing to take up a senior
manager position in the Irish Civil Service
HTML https://www.irishrugby.ie/2020/10/29/it-has-been-an-unbelievable-journey-clancy-steps-away-from-refereeing/
125 Pro14, 75 Champions Cup and 46 international fixtures as
well going to 2 world cups in spite of having Type 1 diabetes.
Not a referee who inspired me with confidence, however, to have
done all the matches above in a 17 year career is a feat in
itself and good luck to him
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Re: George Clancy
DIR By: Whistleblower
Date: November 6, 2020, 7:50 am
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Over the years Ireland has produced some outstandingly excellent
Rugby Union referees. George Clancy's name will not find a place
in that illustrious group. A journeyman referee who, to my way
of thinking, used to receive far better appointments than his
performances deserved. However, over the past few years i think
the Rugby authorities rather saw through him a bit more and he
didn't get the international fixtures he once did.
Clancy has the deserved reputation of being extremely affable
and very good company and I suspect this, rather than his purely
technical ability, may have helped further his progression when
Rugby was a much more social game than it is now.
Good luck to him in his future endeavours and profession.
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Re: George Clancy
DIR By: Hendo
Date: November 6, 2020, 10:54 am
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--- Quote from: Whistleblower link ---
>
> Over the years Ireland has produced some outstandingly
excellent Rugby Union referees. George Clancy's name will not
find a place in that illustrious group. A journeyman referee
who, to my way of thinking, used to receive far better
appointments than his performances deserved. However, over the
past few years i think the Rugby authorities rather saw through
him a bit more and he didn't get the international fixtures he
once did.
>
> Clancy has the deserved reputation of being extremely affable
and very good company and I suspect this, rather than his purely
technical ability, may have helped further his progression when
Rugby was a much more social game than it is now.
>
> Good luck to him in his future endeavours and profession.
>
--- End Quote ---
Well put Whistleblower. In the interview which RCG pointed us to
I think it confirms what a decent sort of person he is but, as
you say, he will not linger long when folk recall the
outstanding Irish refs of yesteryear such as Alain Rolland, John
West, Stephen Hilditch and Owen Doyle.
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Re: George Clancy
DIR By: JCFC
Date: November 6, 2020, 11:16 am
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... not to mention Kevin Kelleher, Paddy D'Arcy, David Burnett
and Alan Lewis.
At least he was ahead of Donal Courtney in the pantheon.
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