The pool of inter-county hurling referees seems extremely shallow at the moment. Colm Lyons was on duty two weekends in a row and in Waterford on Saturday evening James Owens was in charge for the second game in six days in Waterford.
The theory might be that an experienced referee not from a Munster county was required for a game that threatened to be fiery. But Owens, as I mentioned last week, is not refereeing with confidence and it was a gamble assigning him to the game.
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