Premiership Clubs Should Employ Refs, Says Nigel Wray
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Premiership referees should be employed by the competition's clubs, rather than the Rugby Football Union, according to Saracens chairman Nigel Wray.
Officials for top-flight matches are currently appointed from the RFU's pool of 15 professional referees - the Professional Referees Unit (PRU), which also includes 13 assistant referees.
Speaking to BBC Sport, Wray said: "The club game needs to employ its own referees. Their decisions influence the game enormously. We need to tell them the sort of game we want played - which has to be attractive to the customer."
Wray claims he is not questioning…