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Afternoon All. This is a quick update sharing the training slides that we ran through during our face to face session last week. At the session we ran through an update on the new Tackle Height laws asking the attendees how this has impacted games officiated this season. Some of the top points covered were:…

The weekend of 12th and 13th September saw several clubs continuing the “longest pre-season” ever with some informal internal competitions using the RFUs Stage D guidelines, and several North Mids YMOs went along to Bridgnorth RFC on the Saturday and Stourbridge Rugby on the Sunday. They gained some good experience of ‘unusual rules’ (!), but…

Parliament has today voted in favour of the Government’s national lockdown proposals aimed at curbing the increase in Covid-19 cases in England, which take effect from tomorrow (Thursday 5 November) until Wednesday 2 December. In addition, the Government has announced the cessation of all community team sports during this period, which applies to Age Grade…

A reminder: The end of season meeting for all reviewer/developers will take place on 22 May, at Five Ways Old Edwardian RFC, Ash Lane, Alvechurch B48 7BD. It will be an opportunity for feedback as well as information on changes for the future season. It will also be an opportunity to catch up with others…

Law Application Guidelines As you may well have seen and heard in the media, World Rugby has issued new guidelines for law application, which can be found by clicking here. Important: these are NOT ‘new laws’ (as some TV commentators would have you believe); World Rugby does not change or introduce new laws in the…

Message from North Midlands Chairman, Charlie Hemmings The Referees Society have reported this morning the 4th incident of serious abuse addressed to referees. This is obviously a very concerning trend in such a short period of time since the Return to Play protocols.  Whilst the behaviour is generally isolated to individuals can Clubs be reminded that they are…