Glen Warwick Jackson (born 23 October 1975 in
Feilding
Feilding ( mi, Aorangi) is a town in the Manawatū District of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on State Highway 54, 20 kilometres north of Palmerston North. The town is the seat of the Manawatū District Council.
Feilding has ...
,
New Zealand
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) is a professional full-time referee for
New Zealand Rugby
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. Jackson is also a former New Zealand
rugby union
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player. During his playing career, he was a
first five-eighth
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. Domestically, he represented
Bay of Plenty
The Bay of Plenty ( mi, Te Moana-a-Toi) is a region of New Zealand, situated around a bight of the same name in the northern coast of the North Island. The bight stretches 260 km from the Coromandel Peninsula in the west to Cape Runaw ...
and Waikato in the
NPC and the
Saracens in the UK's
Guinness Premiership. His strong performances saw him named in the
Chiefs squad for the
1999 Super Rugby season and had international experience as well with New Zealand Māori (now known as the
Māori All Blacks
The Māori All Blacks, previously called the New Zealand Maori, New Zealand Maoris and New Zealand Natives, are a rugby union team from New Zealand. They are a representative team of the New Zealand Rugby Union, and a prerequisite for playing i ...
) and the
Barbarians
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.
Playing career
Jackson was part of the 2004
Bay of Plenty Steamers team when they won the
Ranfurly Shield
The Ranfurly Shield, colloquially known as the Log o' Wood, is a trophy in New Zealand's domestic rugby union competition. First played for in 1904, the Shield is based on a challenge system. The holding union must defend the shield in challeng ...
.
He made his debut for the
Chiefs in the opening round of the
1999 Super 12 season
The 1999 Super 12 season was the fourth season of the Super 12, contested by teams from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The season ran from February to May 1999, with each team playing all the others once. At the end of the regular sea ...
. Jackson made his final appearance for the Chiefs in a
2004 Super 12 semi-final defeat to the
Brumbies
The ACT Brumbies (known from 2005–2022 as simply the Brumbies) is an Australian professional rugby union team based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory (ACT), The team competes in Super Rugby and named for the brumby, feral horses whi ...
.
Jackson was a member of the
New Zealand Māori side that won the
2004 Churchill Cup
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.
He signed for
Saracens in 2004.
In 2007 he was voted
The Professional Rugby Players' Association
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player of the year after being leading points scorer in the
2006–07 Guinness Premiership.
In 2009 he played for the
Barbarians
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.
Jackson played his final game for Saracens against
Leicester Tigers in the final of the
2009–10 Guinness Premiership.
Refereeing career
In 2010 Jackson retired to become a professional referee in his native New Zealand. He was fast-tracked into the professional rugby ranks by Lyndon Bray, then the head of referees for the
New Zealand Rugby Union
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(now known as New Zealand Rugby) and later in the same role with
SANZAAR, organiser of
Super Rugby and
The Rugby Championship (formerly the Tri Nations).
Within a year of Jackson's return to New Zealand, he went from refereeing provincial rugby games in the
Heartland Championship
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to officiating in the
ITM Cup at the top provincial level to being an assistant referee in Super Rugby competition.
[ By the end of the ]2011 Super Rugby season
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, he had worked his first match as referee in that competition, having presided over the Hurricanes
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−Western Force
The Western Force is an Australian professional rugby union team based in Perth, Western Australia, currently competing in Super Rugby Pacific. They previously played in Super Rugby from 2006 until they were axed from the competition in 2017. F ...
match on 27 May. Shortly after the end of that season, he made his international officiating debut as television match official for the Bledisloe Cup
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Test between New Zealand
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and Australia on 6 August. On 15 February 2015 he made his Six Nations refereeing debut when he took charge of the Scotland-Wales match at Murrayfield. Jackson was the first New Zealander to play and referee 100 first class fixtures when he took charge of the Argentina v South Africa match on 15 August 2015. He retired as a referee after he was not selected for the 2019 Rugby World Cup
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.
Coaching career
In September 2020, Jackson was appointed as one of the assistants to Fiji head coach Vern Cotter
Vern is a masculine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Vernon, Lavern or other names. People named Vern include:
* Vernon Vern Bakalich (1929–2015), New Zealand rugby league player
* Verdi Vern Barberis (1928–2005), Australian ...
.
References
External links
Saracens profile
Player profile from allblacks.com
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1975 births
Barbarian F.C. players
Bay of Plenty rugby union players
Chiefs (rugby union) players
Living people
Ngāi Tahu people
Māori All Blacks players
New Zealand rugby union players
New Zealand rugby union referees
New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in England
Rugby union fly-halves
Saracens F.C. players
People educated at Otumoetai College
People from Feilding
Super Rugby referees
The Rugby Championship referees
Six Nations Championship referees