What makes for a competent and effective Referee Assessor (Adviser)? This paper outlines the principles involved, the skills and knowledge required and the Society's expectations.
Revised October 2021
Revised: October 2019
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Amendments to the 2025-26 handbook are listed here.
Individuals’ contact details can be found in Who’s the Ref (WTR), which is assumed to hold the most up-to-date information.
Members and club contacts are asked to keep their contact details up-to-date on WTR and inform the Society at madrefs.info@gmail.com of ...
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This provides a means for referee assessors (match observers) to evaluate how well they are applying the characteristics of good advising. Details are given in Preferred Option paper #7.
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Preferred Options paper for referee assessors (match observers) that describes what good advising looks like.
Updated October 2021
Updated: 1 October 2019
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Preferred Options paper on Starts, Restarts and Offside in Open Play.
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Preferred Options paper on refereeing the scrum.
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Preferred Options paper on techiques for helping referees take up the best positions to make timely and accurate decisions.
Revised March 2022
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Fred Howard wrote this Preferred Options paper. It provides very useful guidance for referees to help them reduce the risk of problems associated with technical areas.
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Preferred Options paper on gaining the respect of players.
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One of the key recommendations from the recent Law Review Group (LRG) meeting in London was an adjustment to the scrum law (19.10b) on player welfare grounds to outlaw the practice of front row players placing their heads on opposition shoulders, which has been determined to increase the axial (or rotational) loading ...
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