Sam Fellows

General Counsel. People Leader. Sports Law Consultant. Director. Rugby Referee. Sport Law Lecturer at @Waikato. Views are my own.

[Sam Fellows @SBFellows]

@StrictlyObiter I can feel the plastic hitting my fingers

[Joel Cressman @JoelCressman]

What separates adult world-class athletes from successful juniors?

Researchers did a meta-analysis on 6000+ athletes from 15 countries.

Here’s what they found:

[Sam Fellows @SBFellows]

@keithlewisrugby @LeeJarvis10 Refereed a whole season with them in New Zealand and maybe 2 or 3 a game early on and almost none as the year went on. Game was much faster, more offloads and less hear injuries.

[Sam Fellows @SBFellows]

@StrictlyObiter Hahaha yeah in completing mine I was thinking I am not too keen to uphold the ADLS version of the rule of law

[Sam Fellows @SBFellows]

@rugbyandthelaw Would be a very high bar before we would step in on field, none of us ever had aside from telling the captain to get the player to pull their head in

[Sam Fellows @SBFellows]

@PetrieKirsten Was thinking this as I read it this morning, obviously I picked up something in my studies

[Sam Fellows @SBFellows]

@george_haswell Legend mate, love to see you smashing it and supporting the community

[Sam Fellows @SBFellows]

@jakoboflaherty Can't believe that added to the punishment of the rain we had the punishment of your announcing. Kidding mate, great as always to have you up there and an awesome afternoon with two great games.

[Sam Fellows @SBFellows]

@rugbyandthelaw Those were my exact thoughts when I heard his comments

[Sam Fellows @SBFellows]

@Davidxvx Currently no infringement for illegal dumping (have to prosecute) so should change the definition of abandoned vehicle

[Sam Fellows @SBFellows]

@GPRUGBYCEO @PhilGould15 It was a great piece on the news last night, massively positive and forward thinking

[Taituarā — Local Government Professionals Aotearoa @taituara]

Great to hear about the fantastic mahi #Taituarā member @SBFellows and his team at @TgaCouncil are doing to help make Tauranga more sustainable and reduce waste in their community! Read more: https://t.co/QvsdBzKiqh

[Sam Fellows @SBFellows]

@AaronLloydNZL 😂😂😂 my thoughts exactly

[Sam Fellows @SBFellows]

@AaronLloydNZL Is this feedback directed at you "Who is his lawyer? He’s brilliant, he should be on [television show] Suits, he should be the new Louis Litt, that guy is a freak. Unbelievable. The Blues should be paying him overtime, time and a half, all sorts. That guy has done a fantastic job

[Sam Fellows @SBFellows]

@AaronLloydNZL @skysportnz When we moved houses a couple of years ago I made the jump (back when Now only had SS 1-4) but now believe it is way better the box experience.

The 24 hour catchup is an issue, but I have found there are so many replays that it will be within 24 of a replay.

[Rev Dr Andrew Butcher @DrAndrewButcher]

It was my great pleasure to join a remarkable group of @asianewzealand young leaders for dinner last week w Minister @jantinetti. We shared stories of good leadership & I inadvertently demonstrated in the photo that one good thing a leader does is let others have the limelight

[Sam Fellows @SBFellows]

@PetrieKirsten I am fighting the battle to keep this out of our school at the moment

[Scotty Stevenson @sumostevenson]

An important read.

Televising school sport could put too much focus on performance, a price too high for young athletes https://t.co/2oYx55Pji3 via @ConversationEDU