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Match officials to July 12

Tuesday 08th July 2008

Goddard: Less whistle happy in Dunedin one hopes

Just one international match on the cards this weekend when defending Tri-Nations champions New Zealand host South Africa for the second week in a row.

The Boks will be hoping to make it eighth time lucky when they meet the All Blacks at Carisbrook on Saturday.

The Springboks have never won a Test at the House of Pain, losing on all seven occasions and four times since readmission. The closest they have come to breaking the hoodoo is two four-point defeats - in 1956 and 2005.

The man in the middle will be Australia's Matt Goddard, who will be looking to stamp his authority on the match a wee bit better than fellow countryman Stu Dickinson did last week.

Goddard too had a forgettable day with the whistle two weeks ago when he blew the one-off Test between Argentina and Italy to death - awarding 31 penalties and nearly forty scrums!

South Africa's domestic competition, the Currie Cup, continues its run into Round Three with the big match of the weekend set to be played between the Blue Bulls and the defending champion Cheetahs in Pretoria.

Tri-Nations

New Zealand vs South Africa in Dunedin
Referee: Matt Goddard (Australia)
Touch judges: James Leckie (Australia), Paul Marks (Australia)
Television match official: George Ayoub (Australia)
Assessor: Michel Lamoulie (France)

Currie Cup

Sharks vs Valke in Durban
Referee: Jonathan Kaplan
Touch judges: Pro Legoete, Reuben Rossouw
Television match official: Shaun Veldsman
Assessor: Andrew O'Connell

Blue Bulls vs Cheetahs in Pretoria
Referee: Marius Jonker
Touch judges: Sindile Mayende, Cobus Wessels
Television match official: Mark Lawrence
Assessor: Lusanda Menze

Lions vs Boland in Johannesburg
Referee: Deon van Blommestein
Touch judges: Joey Salmans, Peet Badenhorst
Television match official: Shaun Veldsman
Assessor: Richard Nash

Griquas vs Western Province in Kimberley
Referee: Craig Joubert
Touch judges: Jaco Peyper, Peter de Bruin
Television match official: Willie Roos
Assessor: Gerrit Coetzer