Alan Hosie

Alan Hosie (born c.1945) is a Scottish international referee and was the 116th President of the Scottish Rugby Union.[1]

Alan Hosie
Birth nameAlan M. Hosie
Date of birthc.1945
Rugby union career
Refereeing career
Years Competition Apps
1973-84 Five Nations Championship
116th President of the Scottish Rugby Union
In office
2002–2003
Preceded byRobert Young
Succeeded byBert Duffy

Rugby Union career

Referee career

When the yellow card was introduced to rugby union - in addition to the red card - Hosie stated: 'This is a bad move, some referees will use it as a get-out, brandishing a yellow card when it should be red.'[2]

He refereed 22 international matches before becoming Five Nations chairman in 1997.[3]

Administrative career

Hosie was a committee member of the Five Nations Championship from 1992.[3]

Hosie became Chairman of the Five Nations Championship in 1997. He was also the Chairman of the Laws Committee of the IRB; and on the Four Home Unions tour committee.[3] He served as chairman when the championship became the Six Nations Championship and remained there until 2002.[4]

He became the 115th President of the Scottish Rugby Union. He served the standard one year from 2001 to 2002.[5]

Family

His son, Andrew Hosie, is also a rugby union referee; now working in Canada.[6]

References
  1. "Alan M. Hosie". ESPN scrum.
  2. "Aristotle Armstrong - Scottish Rugby Philosopher". scottishrugbyphilosopher.blogspot.com.
  3. "Rugby Union: Former referee to develop Five Nations". The Independent. 4 October 1997. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020.
  4. "Pickering reaches new heights in World rugby". site-wru.soticcloud.net.
  5. "Scottish Rugby Record 2018/19" (PDF). Scottish Rugby. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 November 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  6. Macsporran, Socrates (5 March 2018). "Socrates MacSporran - Scottish Football Philosopher: The English Premiership Or The Ayrshire Juniors - It's Still Just Fitba".
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