This document provides some considered responses to the questions posed in "Maintaining Focus No. 2 - The Ball Carrier".
These considered responses were gathered from a range of referees and advisers. Members are strongly encouraged to answer the questions on their own before looking at the responses, in order to ...
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Maintaining Focus No.2 - The Ball Carrier in a Tackle
This is the second in a series of training and development resources to help referees and referee advisors/coaches "keep their brains going" until whenever the game restarts.
"Maintaining Focus No. 2 - The Ball Carrier in a Tackle" provides a learning ...
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This document provides some considered responses to the questions posed in "Maintaining Focus No. 1 - The Tackler".
These considered responses were gathered from a range of referees and advisers. Members are strongly encouraged to answer the questions on their own before looking at the responses, in order to ...
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This is the first in a series of training and development resources to help referees and referee advisors/coaches "keep their brains going" until whenever the game restarts.
"Maintaining Focus No. 1 - The Tackler" provides a learning opportunity based on the recent World Rugby pronouncements on ‘The Tackle ...
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This Preferred Options paper explores the subtleties of playing advantage. Playing advantage well is very much down to experience, knowledge and judgement; it is therefore an important personal development area for referees.
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This policy applies to all Jumior Referees i.e. young people, both boys and girls, who are under the age of 18 and who are interested in refereeing Rugby Union age-grade matches within the Society’s area.
The RFU has developed a safeguarding Children’s Policy, and the Society proposes to operate its Policy for its ...
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This is the latest version of the Society's Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. It is uses the Rugby Football Union's (RFU's) Safeguarding Children Policy as a framework.
The Policy regulates all of the Society’s activities in relation to officiating at matches involving players under the age of 18 and managing ...
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As an official you’re going to be involved in potential conflict situations due to the nature of competition and the wide range of people involved. How you handle these situations, and more importantly yourself, can have a major outcome on the length and enjoyment of your officiating career.
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Communicating with players before, during and after a match should be structured and have a purpose. The objective is to gain players’ trust and respect rather than affection.
This Preferred Options paper covers four categories of communication from referee to players/coaches:
1. Information
2. Decision-maki...
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Preferred Options paper on the Game Values, describing the Society’s approach to player appealing, questioning decisions and general backchat.
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