a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TTm7aok2WgI/AAAAAAAAE70/U2Wn9LnxaTY/s1600/mapusua-ref-tackle.jpg"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TTm7aok2WgI/AAAAAAAAE70/U2Wn9LnxaTY/s400/mapusua-ref-tackle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564684880835926530" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"As we've seen on more than one occasion, being a referee comes with a few occupational hazards. While they should be light on their feet, aware of their positioning and generally one step ahead, occasionally they get it wrong.br /br //spanWelsh referee James Jones got himself in a bad position when officiating last weekend's Heineken Cup game between London Irish and Ospreys, resulting in a pretty solid tackle from Exiles center Seilala Mapusua.br /br /In fairness it looked as though Jones got in the way because it was such a quick pickup off the base from Ospreys number eight Jonathan Thomas. If you watch carefully you'll see how referee Jones, wearing bright pink on the night, turned and basically ran head-on into the collision.br /br /To his credit, he bounced straight back up and showed little ill-effects from the knock that was actually one of the bigger hits we've seen ref's take over the years.br /br /It's only a short clip as there were no replays at the time, but it was requested and we figured some of you might find some mild amusement in it. Have a great weekend.br /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q_GnQBH9dl8?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q_GnQBH9dl8?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerdiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-6655080882942426084?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //div pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/181uDb6qrBjPGmRgTS7pjS42WQg/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/181uDb6qrBjPGmRgTS7pjS42WQg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/181uDb6qrBjPGmRgTS7pjS42WQg/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/181uDb6qrBjPGmRgTS7pjS42WQg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=f2ivemGR_JU:zQP1RiCsW6A:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/f2ivemGR_JU" height="1" width="1"/ More...