Referee appointments for round one of the 2023 Guinness Six Nations, including the Scotland vs England referee at Murrayfield on Saturday
Ireland v Wales, Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Saturday, 5 February, 2022
- Referee: Jaco Peyper (SARU)
- Assistant Referee 1: Mathieu Raynal (FFR)
- Assistant Referee 2: Angus Gardner (RA)
- TMO: Stuart Terheege (RFU)
Peyper has refereed at two World Cups. In the 2019 tournament he sent France’s Sébastien Vahaamahina off for an elbow in a quarter-final against Wales. Peyper was pictured after the match posing with Welsh fans with an elbow and he wasn’t considered to ref the semi-finals.
He is a trained lawyer.
Peyper and his wife, Zenobia, share two daughters together.
He refereed a British & Irish Lions Test in their 2017 tour of New Zealand.
